Patent ID: 6690985
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
A method for operating a production machine in order to generate production information, which comprises:setting up an evaluation status model having a plurality of evaluation statuses, each one of the plurality of the evaluation statuses having precisely one respective time account corresponding thereto; setting up an interpretation status model having a plurality of statuses, transitions between the plurality of the statuses of the interpretation status model being established in accordance with events that can be picked up on the production machine; assigning the plurality of the statuses of the interpretation status model to the plurality of the statuses of the evaluation status model; and while operating the production machine, increasing the time account of an applicable one of the plurality of the evaluation statuses, which is applicable at a particular time, by an amount corresponding to a time period in which the production machine is in the applicable one of the plurality of the evaluation statuses.