An industrial monitoring system is disclosed. In an embodiment it includes a device layer, a device driving layer, a data sharing layer, a data routing layer, a data scheduling layer, a service layer, and a presentation layer. The data sharing layer, the data routing layer, and the data scheduling layer are organized by using a non-relational database, or organized in a hybrid way by using the non-relational database and a relational database. The industrial monitoring system disclosed can implement processing such as real-time storage and sharing of a large amount of data, and data mining and retrieval.

Provided are a first storage unit 411b configured to store the data which are transmitted among the control apparatuses 21 to 24; a group selector 414a configured to divide the memory area in the first storage unit 411b into multiple groups, to further divide the memory area in each group into multiple subgroups, and to select at least one divided subgroups as a collection group, which is a unit to continuously read data in the group; a schedule generator 414b configured to generate the schedule, on the basis of the number of subgroups selected as each collection group and the collection cycle for the data collection; and a data reader 414e configured to read the data on the basis of the generated schedule.

A Self-monitoring manufacturing system adapted to produce at least one object. The system includes at least a first processing facility adapted to perform a respective first processing step with the object, and a production control unit, wherein the production data comprises nominal pre-processing object data. A production monitoring unit for checking a pre-processing object state of the object is arranged, such unit being adapted to obtain actual property data of the object in-line of the production in-advance of applying the first processing step, to generate deviation data by comparing the actual property data with the production data for the first processing step, and to provide the deviation data for performing the first production step with the first processing facility in deviation-adjusted manner.

Provided is a method of providing a real-time robot monitoring service, in which robots in a factory are monitored in real-time by a service providing server, the method including steps of: (a) receiving state information of each axis of each of the robots from a robot controller; (b) generating preventive measure information which is related to a management state of the robot and predictive measure information which is related to a process capability of the robot and a state change pattern of the robot by analyzing the state information of each of the axes of the robot; and (c) transmitting the preventive measure information of each of the axes and the predictive measure information of each of the axes to a manager terminal of the factory.

A digital measurement input for an electric automation device has a receiving device configured to receive digital input measurement values generated by sampling an analog measurement signal at a first sampling rate, and a signal converting device configured to generate digital output measurement values from the digital input measurement values and to provide digital output measurement values. The sampling rate and sampling times of each digital output measurement value is adapted to a specified sampling rate and/or specified sampling time. The signal converting device has a digital encoder filter on the input side and a digital decoder filter on the output side, between which an interpolator is provided. The encoder filter, the interpolator, and the decoder filter are matched to one another so as to adapt the sampling rate and/or sampling time of the digital input measurement values.

A numerical controller which can prevent the stoppage of operation caused by the shutting off of communication with a host computer includes a communication unit for sending an NC data acquisition request containing a data size specification to a host computer, and a numerical control unit for performing operation using NC data sent from the host computer in response to the NC data acquisition request. Every fixed period, the communication unit sends, to the host computer, the NC data acquisition request containing the data size specification corresponding to a quantity of the NC data consumed by the numerical control unit.

Provided are a group selector 431 configured to select collection groups from multiple subgroups obtained by dividing a memory area in a first storage unit 411b; a collection group assigner 432 configured to assign the selected collection groups to data collection apparatuses 41 to 43 in order to distribute load of data collection; and a schedule generator 433 configured to generate a schedule for reading the data from the first storage unit 411b. Each of the data collection apparatuses 42, 43 includes a schedule generator 443 configured to generate a schedule for reading the data from the first storage unit 411b on the basis of a collection cycle and the number of collection groups assigned to the data collection apparatus 42.

In a data collection system for electric discharge machines, multiple electric discharge machines are connected with a computer over a data transmission path. Information on machining conditions of an electric discharge machine is stored in a storage unit of the electric discharge machine, and information sent from the electric discharge machine after completion of machining is collected by the computer. By minimizing monitoring information that is temporarily stored in the storage unit, various kinds of monitoring information can be stored without being affected by a network environment.

Methods and systems for testing a material quality executed by a computer numerically controlled machine include a carrier plate coupled to a first tool holder of the computer numerically controlled machine, the carrier plate including a first test specimen formed of an additive manufacturing material, a testing tool coupled to a second tool holder of the computer numerically controlled machine, the testing tool including a specimen interface, and engaging the first test specimen with the specimen interface of the testing tool. Relative movement between the first and second tool holders causes the testing tool to execute a first test toolpath relative to the first test specimen, during which is obtained a first set of test data indicative of mechanical properties of the first test specimen.

An NC machine tool is provided with a display device capable of displaying processing time individually for each function command of a block of an NC program. The display device of the NC machine tool is capable of displaying processing time for each function command. Thus, an operator is able to identify processing time for each function command via the display device.