A identification and planning system includes a scanner assembly, a robotic manipulator, and control server. The control server detects a first plurality of inventory items in a first inventory storage system and determines a first set of position parameters for a first inventory item from the detected first plurality of inventory items, with respect to a position of one or more image sensors in the scanner assembly. The control server generates a plurality of pick-path plans for the first inventory item, where each pick-path plan corresponds to a transformation of the determined first set of position parameters to a second set of position parameters with respect to the robotic manipulator. The control server further selects a first pick-path plan from the plurality of pick-path plans and controls the robotic manipulator to pick the first inventory item from the first inventory storage system, based on the first pick-path plan.

Disclosed is an interior tracking system for manufacturing control. The interior tracking system has multiple, fixedly installed transceivers for determining the position of multiple mobile units, the position being determined in particular by evaluating the propagation time of electromagnetic (radio) signals. The interior tracking system is used to assign one of the mobile units to one or more workpieces in an industrial manufacturing plant that processes steel and/or sheet metal, to determine the position of the assigned workpieces by localizing the assigned mobile unit using the interior tracking system and to integrate the interior tracking system into a manufacturing control system of the industrial manufacturing plant.

Methods and systems for monitoring process equipment such as field devices. A QR code can be associated with a field device, wherein the QR code contains data that identifies the field device, and also includes process data regarding the field device, the location of the field device, and maintenance information, installation information and fault information associated with the field device. The QR code can then be scanned and decoded in order to retrieve the data for use in in monitoring and maintaining field devices in the context of a connected plant.

Method and an arrangement for monitoring status of a production device configured to implement an industrial process or industrial production with a control device with sensors and actuators, where at least one further sensor is carried through the production device with a product being processed by the production device, where further signals are wirelessly transmitted to a status-monitoring device by the further sensor, and where the signals and/or status information items and the further signals are placeable in relationship with one another to generate status information item about the production device such that it is possible to plan the status monitoring separately from the production device, and possible to combine information items of the industrial control device with the information items and data of a mobile sensor (further sensor) that passes through the production device, such that more precise status information items about the production device status can be acquired.

A simultaneous post-treatment detection process of a plurality of objects treated and positioned on a treatment base is provided, wherein the objects at first are coupled to a device identified by an identification code, and wherein the process comprises the fact of decoupling each object from the device to prepare the object for the treatment; positioning, before treatment, each object on a treatment base; associating, by recording by means of an electronic computer on a digital storage medium, the code of each device to an allocation position on the treatment base of a respective object at first coupled thereto by one or more phases selected from a phase of indicating the allocation position implemented by means of a visual support adapted to allow a user to display the allocation position on the base, and a phase of recognizing an outline, defined by each object and previously acquired by an optical instrument and associated to a respective said code, of an object on the base to determine the relative allocation position; detecting to the user the position of the object on the base for each code whenever the user recalls a code recorded on the storage medium, and wherein the recall is performed by visual inspection by the user if the association on the digital storage medium is reproduced by the computer as a graphic mapping viewable by the user, and/or by scanning a code by means of a scanning instrument operatively connected to the computer.

Methods and systems for monitoring process equipment such as field devices. A QR code can be associated with a field device, wherein the QR code contains data that identifies the field device, and also includes process data regarding the field device, the location of the field device, and maintenance information, installation information and fault information associated with the field device. The QR code can then be scanned and decoded in order to retrieve the data for use in in monitoring and maintaining field devices in the context of a connected plant.

A system and method for monitoring operating conditions of an industrial installation system including a plurality industrial assets. A plurality of transponders or beacons is located in a facility or location, where each of the transponders defines a zone in which some of the industrial assets are located. One or more mobile devices is configured to identify assets located within one or more of the zones to provide information to a data acquisition and processing system, which monitors the operating conditions of each of the industrial assets. Each of the one or more mobile devices is authorized depending on a location within the facility, the identity of a user, or based on a time of day. Industrial assets that require support, such as maintenance or replacement, are identified. Authorized mobile devices are configured to transmit information to and to receive information from the data acquisition and processing system.

A method of recutting the surface of a wheel includes mounting the wheel on a rotatable mount, moving a probe across the surface of the wheel between an outer radial position and an inner radial position to obtain a radial surface profile and rotating the wheel about its axis on the rotatable mount. During rotation of the wheel, the position of a cutting tool with respect to the surface of the wheel is controlled to recut the surface of the wheel in accordance with the cutting profile. The wheel is tagged with a unique wheel identifier, and the unique wheel identifier is recorded into a database in association with an indication of an amount of material which has been removed from the surface of the wheel.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a human machine interface, a controller, a robot, and corresponding systems and methods. The human machine interface is configured to control the robot via the controller. The method includes receiving a user input at the human machine interface; and transmitting a control signal to the controller in response to the user input, the control signal being configured to activate a first indication element arranged on the controller to identify the controller.

Signals are transmitted between a device placed on an object and at least one further device. Based on measurement of the signals transmitted between the device and the at least one further device, a position of the object is determined. Further, data associated with the object are stored in the device. The stored data are then transmitted from the device.