Systems and methods are provided for controlling a color masterbatch feed rate in production of a manufactured part to match a color of the manufactured part to a target color by adjusting a concentration of masterbatch that is mixed with a raw material and fed into a processing machine for producing the manufactured part. Control of the color masterbatch feed rate is based on optical spectral properties of an in-line manufactured part, a known reference part having the target color, and an algorithm for calculating and adjusting the color masterbatch feed rate.

The machine tool includes a table, a spindle, first and second feed motors relatively moves the table and the spindle in a first direction and a second direction, and a control unit which positions cutting positions of a workpiece with respect to a tool by controlling the first feed motor, and moves a distal end of the tool between a distant position and a predetermined depth position of the workpiece by controlling the second feed motor, and the control unit performs a process in which the cutting position is positioned after cutting of the cutting position is completed, a second process in which the distal end of the tool is moved from the distant position to the predetermined depth position, and a third process in which the distal end of the tool is moved from the predetermined depth position to the distant position.

A control device for machine tools according to an aspect of the present disclosure controls a machine tool which cuts the workpiece by way of the cutting tool by causing the spindle and the feed axis to cooperatively act, the control device including: a feed command calculation unit which calculates a feed command for causing the feed axis to relatively move in relation to the workpiece; an oscillation phase calculation unit which calculates an oscillation phase that is a phase of oscillation to cause the feed axis to reciprocally move based on a rotation number of the spindle; an oscillation phase compensation unit which compensates the oscillation phase; an oscillation amplitude calculation unit which calculates an oscillation amplitude that is an amplitude of oscillation causing the feed axis to reciprocally move based on the feed command; an oscillation command calculation unit which calculates an oscillation command causing the feed axis to reciprocally move, based on the oscillation amplitude and the oscillation phase after compensation by the oscillation phase compensation unit; and a command synthesizing unit which calculates a synthetic command for driving the feed axis by superimposing the feed command and the oscillation command.

A controller of a machine tool includes a plurality of feed axes that feed a tool, machines a workpiece while making the tool oscillate and includes: an oscillation command creation unit which creates an oscillation command based on a machining condition; and a control unit which machines, based on the oscillation command and a movement command, the workpiece while making the tool oscillate, and the oscillation command creation unit creates, when the machining condition indicates machining by an interpolation operation of one feed axis of the plurality of feed axes, the oscillation command so as to make the tool oscillate in a direction along a machining path and changes, when the machining condition indicates machining by a simultaneous interpolation operation of the plurality of feed axes, the oscillation command so as to change the direction of the oscillation with respect to the machining path.

A drilling system including a feed control module, a force control module, a hole breaking control module, a conversion module and a computing unit is provided. The feed control module sets a feed force threshold and a feed speed threshold for the computing unit to determine whether the current mode satisfies a first conversion condition. The hole breaking control module sets a drilling penetration force threshold and a drilling penetration speed threshold for the computing unit to determine whether the current mode satisfies a second conversion condition. The conversion module informs to change the feed force and the feed speed according to the determination results of the two conversion conditions. The force control module provides the feed force. With the drilling system, possible impact on the workpiece due to resistance change which occurs when the drill just touches and nearly gets through the workpiece will be reduced.

A production line for manufacturing a building block, which includes at least one component, the production line including: a central conveyor line; at least one feeding line for feeding the at least one component to the central conveyor line; a manufacturing tool set for processing the at least one component; and a control unit for controlling the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set. The controlling at least one of the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set includes: retrieving an asset-information about the at least one component and/or the manufacturing tool set, conveying the at least one component according to the asset-information by the feeding line to the central conveyor line, retrieving a processing-information and/or a manufacturing tool set information about processing the at least one component, and processing the at least one component by the manufacturing tool set.

A program editing device is configured such that, when an arc-shaped partial path is selected from a machining path displayed on a display unit based on route information of each of plural blocks, the program editing device calculates a change amount of the radius of curvature of the selected partial path in accordance with an operation of changing the state of the arc of the selected partial path and revises the block corresponding to the selected partial path based on the change amount.

A toolpath topology design method based on vector field in sub-regional processing for the curved surface is disclosed which comprising: finding the functional relationships in feeding direction between the chord error and the normal curvature and between the scallop-height error and the normal curvature; establishing the bi-objective optimization model and calculating the optimal feeding direction at each cutting contact point within the surface through the constructed evaluation function, the space vector field is built; calculating divergence and rotation of the projected vector field and according to whether them are zeros or not to classify different sub-regions, the primary surface segmentation is achieved, etc. The method is applied for the complex curved surface processing, which can reduce the machining error and enhance the feed motion stability.

An electronic manual system for a machine tool: generates an inquiry code on the basis of information relating to a user including a manufacture number of a machine tool; refers, on the basis of the inquiry code, to a user information database in which information relating to the machine tool and user identification information are associated with each other and stored; acquires, from an instruction manual database which stores electronic data of an instruction manual for the machine tool possessed by the user, a corresponding electronic manual; and displays the electronic manual on a manual display terminal.

A substrate work system including a work device configured to perform predetermined work on a substrate by use of an exchangeable work unit includes a storage section configured to store the work unit, a maintenance device configured to perform maintenance of the work unit, a conveyance device capable of conveying the work unit, a determination section configured to determine a maintenance time for the work unit used in the work device based on quality information on work quality of the predetermined work, and a control section configured to, when the determination section determines that a maintenance time arrives, cause the conveyance device, the work device, and the maintenance device to unload the work unit, convey the work unit to the work device to exchange with the work unit that has been used, and convey the used-up work unit to the maintenance device.