Patent ID: 6735764
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: G05B,G06F,Y02P

Abstract:
An automatic machine application program development system comprising a program development unit which includes:a graphical tool area in which a plurality of new components, being elements for describing a program as a flowchart, are depicted; and a drawing area for creating a flowchart using these new components, wherein the new components include: a parallel execution component intervening in the flowchart in the drawing area and having a single input and a plurality of outputs, and a parallel execution waiting component paired with the parallel execution component and having a plurality of inputs and a single output; an interruption component intervening in the flowchart in the drawing area but placed outside of a main stream of the flowchart, and connected to the main stream of the flowchart using an interruption line extending in a direction perpendicular to the main stream of the flowchart; and a subroutine component intervening in the flowchart and including a subroutine program.