Disclosed are a buffer material conveying and winding device, a buffer material conveying method and an assembly binding system, belonging to the technical field of a chip on glass. The buffer material conveying and winding device comprises a rack, a feed roller, a feed servo motor, a recycling roller, a recycling torque motor, a measuring device, a controller and an alarm. The controller may monitor whether the recycling length meets the requirement through the measuring device. The buffer material conveying method is based on the buffer material conveying and winding device. The assembly binding system comprises a buffer material conveying and winding device, a buffer material and a pressing head device.

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 robot machining system including: a robot in which a hand is attached to a distal end of an arm thereof; a force sensor provided in one of the robot and the machining device and detecting a force acting therebetween when a workpiece is being machined; and a control device that controls the robot or the machining device according to the detected force, wherein one of the machining device and the hand is provided with guide surfaces that extend along a direction in which the machining device and the hand are relatively moved when the workpiece is machined; the other of the machining device and the hand is provided with guided portions that are brought into contact with the guide surfaces when the workpiece is machined; and the control device performs control for maintaining a contact state between the guide surfaces and the guided portions during machining of the workpiece.

Provided is a numerical control device capable of performing multi-stage machining all at once without depending on arrangement of cutting edges of a rotary multi-edged tool. A numerical control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is for controlling, on the basis of a machining program, a machine tool that machines a workpiece by using a rotary multi-edged tool having a plurality of cutting edges. The numerical control device is provided with: a tool data acquisition unit that acquires tool data including the number of edges of the rotary multi-edged tool; a machining information acquisition unit that acquires machining information including a feed direction, a feed speed, and a rotation speed with respect to the workpiece of the rotary multi-edged tool complying with the machining program; an oscillation condition acquisition unit that acquires an oscillation condition for oscillating the rotary multi-edged tool in at least one of the feed direction and a direction perpendicular to the feed direction; and a movement instruction calculation unit that calculates a movement instruction for relatively moving the rotary multi-edged tool with respect to the workpiece in a synthesis operation obtained by superposing a basic movement made in the feed direction at the feed speed and an oscillation motion determined on the basis of the tool data, the rotation speed, and the oscillation condition.

A control apparatus of a machine tool, the control apparatus including: a numerical control unit configured to create a spindle axis command and a feed axis command according to a tapping program; a spindle axis control unit configured to control rotational operation of the spindle axis according to the spindle axis command; a rotation detector configured to detect a rotation position of the spindle axis; and a feed axis control unit configured to control feeding operation of the feed axis according to the feed axis command on the basis of the rotation position. The numerical control unit is further configured to include, in the spindle axis command, a speed command value during return that does not depend on maximum rotation speed during machining of the spindle axis and that is higher than the maximum rotation speed during machining, as a command of return operation.

A system includes a core drill and an automatic feed device. The core drill has a human machine interface (HMI) for controlling the core drill and the automatic feed device. A menu navigation of the HMI is automatically controllable in dependence on an operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device. The menu navigation includes menu pages where the menu pages are displayable in dependence on the operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device such that the menu navigation is controllable automatically depending on the operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device.

A control device for operating a machine tool having a motor-driven, traversable and positionable tool head. The control device executes a freely programmable control program and determines or co-determines the sequence of operations of the machine tool. The control device also comprises a user interface for influencing the sequence of operations of the machine tool by manual control, at least one operating element for manually controlling changes to movements of the tool head being formed on the user interface. A multi-functionally designed operating element is designed to manually preset or influence a feed rate during a machining phase of the tool head and which multi-functionally designed operating element, in a second usage mode, is designed to manually preset or influence a rapid-traverse rate during a rapid-traverse phase of the tool head. The multi-functionally designed operating element is designed as a rotary actuator operating element comprising a continuously rotatable actuating member.

Provided is an information processing apparatus which determines a discharge condition for a chip removal apparatus which discharges an object in order to remove chips, wherein the information processing apparatus observes data indicating a removal efficiency of the chips as a state variable representing a current state of an environment, acquires label data indicating the discharge condition, and learns the state variable and the label data in association with each other.

A system and method are provided for in-line processes of blending butane into gasoline streams, and for blending butane into a gasoline stream at any point along a petroleum pipeline. The invention additionally provides a method for measuring the vapor pressure and vapor to liquid ratio of the gasoline, both upstream and downstream of the blending operation, as well as the sulfur content of the butane entering the blending operation. The blending operation can be controlled to ensure that the blended gasoline meets EPA requirements for vapor pressure and sulfur content of gasoline. The invention further provides a method for accessing and monitoring the operation off-site.

A system is described for carton serialization on a high-speed production line. The system includes conveying apparatus. A printer prints a unique character string on each piece of feed stock to uniquely identify each assembled carton. Folding and gluing apparatus are operatively associated with the conveying apparatus for selectively gluing and folding feed stock to form assembled cartons. An analysis apparatus monitors operation of carton assembly. A rejection device selectively removes defective assembled cartons from the conveying apparatus. A control system is in operative communication with the sensor, printer, folding and gluing apparatus, the analysis apparatus and the rejection device. The control system stores machine operating parameters in a database. The control system controls the printer to print the unique character string on each piece of feed stock responsive to the sensor and storing the unique character string and production time for each carton produced in a database.