A machining program conversion device includes: a numerical control simulation unit that generates a numerical control processing result by simulating numerical control processing that is controlled by the machining program; a modification part detection unit that detects a modification part based on a modification condition and the numerical control processing result, the modification condition for determining whether there is a modification part; a modification section determination unit that designates consecutive blocks including the modification part as a modification section; a cutting point calculation unit that identifies, based on the machining program, the machining target shape, and the tool information, a cutting point of the tool with respect to the machining target shape; and a machining program modification unit that modifies, based on the machining program, the modification section, and the cutting point, the movement command related to the modification section such that the cutting point does not change.

A machining condition searching method includes: generating a machining condition to be set in a machining device; collecting a machining state; collecting the machining result performed under the machining condition; calculating an evaluation value of the machining on the basis of the machining result; constructing an evaluation value prediction model predicting, on the basis of the machining condition, the machining state, and the evaluation value, an evaluation value corresponding to the machining condition that has not been tried; and constructing the evaluation value prediction model on the basis of a change degree in the relationship between the machining condition and the evaluation value, and performs weighting based on the machining state on the evaluation value prediction model. The machining condition to be tried next is generated using a predictive value of the evaluation value. Each of the above processes is repeatedly performed until it is determined to end a search.

A system includes a first sensor having a fixed location relative to a workspace, a second sensor, at least one robotic manipulator coupled to a manipulation tool, and a control system in communication with the at least one robotic manipulator. The control system is configured to determine a location of a workpiece in the workspace based on first sensor data from the first sensor and a three-dimensional (3D) model corresponding to the workpiece. The control system is configured to map a set of 2D coordinates from a second 2D image from the second sensor to a set of 3D coordinates based on the location, and to generate one or more control signals for the at least one robotic manipulator based on the set of 3D coordinates.

The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece by means of a milling tool arranged on a rotatable spindle, the spindle being moved relative to the workpiece or the workpiece being moved relative to the spindle along a machining path and, at the same time, the spindle rotating about a spindle axis. In said method, an improvement in the surface quality is achieved by controlling the rotational speed and/or the phase position of the rotation of the spindle along the machining path, the machining path comprising linear parallel tracks and the phase position of the spindle along the machining path being substantially the same on adjacent tracks, the phase position being controlled by varying the rotational speed of the spindle and/or the advancing speed of the spindle relative to the workpiece along the machining path.

A numerical control (NC) program is converted regardless of a machining form of a workpiece. An NC program conversion processing method is an NC program conversion processing method for converting a conversion source NC program that controls a first machining center into a conversion destination NC program that controls a second machining center, which includes: a determination step of determining a machining form of a workpiece by the conversion source NC program; a decision step of deciding a correction method to be one-direction correction or two-direction correction according to the determined machining form of the workpiece; and a conversion step of converting the conversion source NC program into the conversion destination NC program using the decided correction method.

A machining program editor that edits a machining program in which a machining path for a wire electrode of a wire electrical discharge machine is set, the machining program editor including: a path determination unit configured to determine whether or not the machining path includes a linear path section that crosses a boundary line between a thick portion of a workpiece and a thin portion of the workpiece, a thickness of the thin portion being smaller than a thickness of the thick portion in an extending direction of the wire electrode; and a path compensator configured to compensate the machining path so as to form, in the thin portion over a predetermined distance, a protrusion projecting outward from the boundary line when the path determination unit determines that the linear path section is included.

Apparatus and method for controlling and/or monitoring a technical installation for producing and/or processing metal, having an assistant program with at least one interface for connection to application programs, wherein the assistant program receives a request for an item of information relating to the installation from at least one requesting application program via the interface, wherein the assistant program can access a data model that provides a suggestion of which information can be provided by at least one further application program. The assistant program determining, based on the request and on the data model, which application program can provide the requested information, wherein the assistant program transmits the request to the at least one determined application program which can provide the requested information, wherein the assistant program receives a response from the determined application program, and wherein the assistant program outputs the received response to the requesting application program.

A computer-implemented method is provided for determining a cut pattern of a lathe. The lathe is numerically controlled by a control device and includes a tool with a cutter acting on a workpiece. The workpiece has a start contour and a target contour to be achieved by cutting the workpiece according to the cut pattern. The method includes determining a path of a n-th layer of the cut pattern, wherein the n-th layer includes: for n≥2: an infeed path linear and/or parallel to the target contour; a circular infeed path starting tangent to the target contour; an intermediate path linear and/or parallel to the target contour; a circular outfeed path ending tangent to the target contour; and for n≥2: a smoothing path linear and/or parallel to the target contour.

A method for determining cutting parameters for a laser cutting machine includes the following steps: Receiving at least one machine parameter, at least one process parameter and/or at least one material parameter; outputting properties that can be influenced by the cutting parameters, of a laser-cut edge to be cut by the laser cutting machine; receiving a weighting of the properties; and determining the cutting parameters using the at least one machine parameter, the at least one process parameter, and/or the at least one material parameter and also using the weighted properties. There is also described an apparatus for carrying out the method, in particular an apparatus for machining a workpiece and/or an apparatus which is designed to simulate a production process.

A control device is provided with: an extraction unit which extracts, on the basis of a machine configuration including the number of axes and/or the number of systems in a machine tool, a plurality of task items included in setup work for the next process in the machine tool, as essential settings or optional settings; a determination unit which dynamically determines, in accordance with operation details of setup work performed on the machine tool during a period from the completion of the latest process by the machine tool to the present point in time, whether each of the plurality of task items extracted as an essential setting or optional setting corresponds to an essential setting or an optional setting; and an action control unit which does not permit a process action of the machine tool if there is an essential setting which has not been completed or updated.