Patent ID: 6574526
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: D01H

Abstract:
A procedure for controlling individual components of a work station in a textile machine having a plurality of the workstations disposed in proximity to each other, the workstation components having individual control devices, said process comprising:connecting the components at the workstations to a bus system, wherein the bus system is in turn connected to a central control apparatus; setting identifying addresses for the components to a default value; recognizing with the central control apparatus that the components have been installed; initializing a recognition phase wherein the components are interrogated by the central control apparatus and the default address is converted to a component specific address such that for a given section of the textile machine, the same components have different specific addresses; controlling operations relating to the components with the central control apparatus that communicates with selected components through their respective control device in accordance with their respective component specific address; and wherein for the exchange of several components wherein at least one such component is already provided with a component specific address, connecting the exchange components to the bus system and initializing an initialization phase and resetting the component specific addresses of the exchange components to their default addresses prior to said recognition phase.