Patent ID: 7102622

Claim:
A production equipment monitoring device comprising: a display panel configured to provide a touch switch function; a data exchanger configured to communicate various data with a programmable logic controller that is configured to control machining operations carried out in production equipment in accordance with a sequence program; a touch switch display controller configured to display on said display panel a touch switch corresponding to a general segmentary operating process, said general segmentary operating process collects, for every operating category, data on processes of the machining operations carried out in the production equipment; an operating status display controller configured to distinguishably display on said display panel said touch switch and its operating status corresponding to said general segmentary operating process which is presently carried out in the machining operation of the production equipment; a detail process information memory configured to store a name of a detail operating process and an address of the programmable logic controller to be referred thereto when judging an actual status of said detail operating process, said detail operating process is generated by dividing said general segmentary operating process corresponding to said touch switches into an operating process of the machining operation; and a detail information display controller configured to display on said display panel, when said touch switch is pressed, the name of said detail operating process included in said general segmentary operating process corresponding to said pressed touch switch, and the actual status of said detail operating process obtained by said address of the programmable logic controller.