Patent ID: 8849427

Claim:
A system comprising: a controller configured to: receive a plurality of jog operation requests associated with a machine from a plurality of remotely located devices; store respective values indicative of respective types of the respective jog operation requests in jog status fields of a table associated with the machine, wherein the respective jog status fields are assigned to respective remotely located devices of the plurality of remotely located devices, and the types include perform a jog operation and do not perform the jog operation; and iteratively, at a specified time interval based upon an estimated time interval for generation of jog operation requests from the plurality of remotely located devices, determine whether the machine is to perform the jog operation based upon on the respective values in the jog status fields comprising: in response to at least one of the respective values indicating to perform the jog operation, determine that the machine is to perform the jog operation and issue a command to the machine to perform the jog operation; and in response to all of the respective values indicating do not perform the jog operation, determine that the machine is not to perform the jog operation.