Patent ID: 8073567
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A production system provided with a production control apparatus controlling a production process in the production system, at least one machine tool including a plurality of machining programs and machining a workpiece, at least one robot including a plurality of work programs, supplying a workpiece to said machine tool, and unloading said workpiece from said machine tool, at least one staging table on which said workpiece can be placed, at least one detector outputting a workpiece signal indicating if a workpiece is present at said staging table, and a communicating means for connecting said production control apparatus, said robot, said machine tool, and said detector, wherein, said production control apparatus is provided with a storing means for storing in advance a production system model comprised of workpiece information regarding said workpiece and program information regarding said plurality of work programs of said at least one robot and said plurality of machining programs of said at least one machine tool, an updating means for updating workpiece information and program information contained in said production system model stored in said storing means based on a run status signal received from said communicating means and showing a run status of said robot and said machine tool and a workpiece signal output from said detector, and an instructing means for selecting one work program from said plurality of work programs of said robot and one machining program from said plurality of machining programs of said machine tool based on the production system model updated by said updating means and instructs running of the selected work program and machining program through said communicating means to said robot and said machine tool.