Patent ID: 6999832

Claim:
In a production machine having at least one of a keypad, a switch array, a touchpad, a touch-sensitive screen, and a sensor, a method of using the at least one of a keypad, a switch array, a touch-sensitive screen, a sensor, and a machine control of the production machine, for generating events regarding production information while operating the production machine, which comprises the following steps: establishing an evaluation status model having a number of evaluation statuses, each of the evaluation statuses having precisely one corresponding time account; establishing an interpretation status model having statuses with transitions therebetween, the transitions of the interpretation status model being established in accordance with events detected on the production machine; assigning statuses of the interpretation status model to statuses of the evaluation status model; increasing a time account of one of the evaluation statuses applicable at a particular time while operating the production machine by an amount corresponding to a time period in which the production machine is in the evaluation status concerned; and generating events from signals generated by an operator with the at least one of the keypad, the switch array, the touch-sensitive screen, and the signal picked up by the sensor, and the signal picked up by the machine control.