Patent ID: 8202206
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for machining a workpiece comprising: providing a machine tool having a tool receptacle for accommodating a cutting tool, providing a tool magazine having a plurality of storage places which are loaded with a plurality of cutting tools in a first spatial sequence, and machining the workpiece using cutting tools from the tool magazine in a predefined time sequence, wherein the predefined time sequence defines a series of previous and subsequent cutting tools, with each previous cutting tool being accommodated in the tool receptacle during a machining operation and being replaced by a subsequent cutting tool from the tool magazine for a subsequent operation in the course of the time sequence, wherein the first spatial sequence is unsorted as compared to the predefined time sequence, and wherein the previous cutting tools, when being put back into the tool magazine, are sorted by distributing them to the storage places in a second spatial sequence which is different from the first spatial sequence and substantially corresponds to the time sequence.