Patent ID: 6701209
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
A system for ascertaining an optimum operating speed of a production machine set to operate in a specific speed range, the system comprising:a data acquisition device assigned to the production machine and acquiring production data including time and duration of machine downtimes caused by fault events from the production machine; a data processing device having a data input device acquiring additional information; a production database; said data processing device having a production-data acquisition device linking the production data from said data acquisition device with the additional information from said data input device to form product data and storing the product data in said production database; an assessment model stored in said data processing device; a data storage device; said data processing device storing an assessment function, applying the production data from said production database to said stored assessment model to ascertain an operating speed, and storing the operating speed in said data storage device; a desired value storage device; and said data processing device having an optimization function and linking the operating speed from the data storage device with production unit costs to ascertain an optimum operating speed desired value, and feeding the optimum operating speed desired value to said desired value storage device.