A machine tool includes a linear movement axis for moving a main spindle, at least two linear movement axes for moving a table, and a rotation table including at least one rotation axis, the rotation table being placed on the table. A numerical controller performs machining by executing a machining program for tool center point control where the tool orientation is fixed to a certain axis or a certain surface, and by changing the tool orientation by controlling each axis of the machine tool based on set tool use range and tool orientation change waveform pattern.

A method for forming a stamped component from a blank material with an industrial stamping machine during a stamping process includes measuring a plurality of parameters of the stamping process. The parameters are provided as variables of the stamping process. The method further includes analyzing, by a stamping process model, the plurality of parameters to adjust the stamping process for the blank material, defining, by the stamping process model, a control parameter of the industrial stamping machine for the blank material, and stamping the blank material with the industrial stamping machine based on the defined control parameter to form the stamped component.

To reduce wasteful memory consumption as compared with prior art in the case of a greater number of machine configuration trees subjected to switching by a numerical control device. A control system for an industrial machine including a machine configuration editing device and a machine configuration management device is configured to represent a machine configuration to be controlled in a graph-like machine configuration tree having constituent elements as nodes. The machine configuration editing device acquires machine configuration data for generating the machine configuration tree. The machine configuration management device includes a machine configuration tree generation portion configured to generate a plurality of the machine configuration trees on the basis of the machine configuration data and a node information change portion configured to generate a single machine configuration tree having a branch node set at a position corresponding to a boundary between common nodes and different nodes in the plurality of machine configuration trees and having the different nodes in the plurality of machine configuration trees so as to branch from the branch node toward tips.

Systems and methods for controlling chlorinators for pools and spas are provided. A controller communicates with a processor positioned within a replaceable cell cartridge of a chlorinator, to allow for remote control and diagnosis of the chlorinator and/or cell cartridge. The cell cartridge stores, in non-volatile memory on board the cartridge, one or more parameters associated with the cartridge. The controller can obtain this information from the processor of the cell cartridge, and can use same to configure operation of the chlorinator. Information relating to remaining cell life can be updated by the controller and stored in the non-volatile memory of the cell cartridge. Electrical and software-based mechanisms are provided for ensuring operation of only compatible cell cartridges with the chlorinator. A system for remotely diagnosing errors associated with the chlorinator is also provided.

A method for transmitting at least one tool presetting data set of a machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium, at least one tool measuring data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium and/or at least one tool processing data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium to a machine tool that is controlled via Computerized Numerical Control [CNC machine tool], with a data communication unit, wherein in a tool delivery step at least the machining tool is delivered to the CNC machine tool and wherein in a tool identification step the delivered machining tool is identified via a tool identification unit, which is in particular allocated to the CNC machine tool, the method including a read-out step, which is in particular situated temporally after the tool identification step, in which at least the tool presetting data set of the machining tool, the tool measuring data set of the machining tool and/or the tool processing data set of the machining tool are/is read out of the storage medium by the data communication unit and is transmitted to a data processing unit that is allocated to the CNC machine tool, in particular to the CNC machine tool, wherein the storage medium is arranged apart from the machining tool, apart from a tool holder holding the machining tool and apart from the CNC machine tool.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for operating a machine tool comprising: during a machining process in which a first workpiece of a first batch is machined using the machine tool, detecting a measured variable using a detection device of the machine tool; determining a measured value characterizing the machining process as a function of the measured variable using an electronic computing device; and comparing the determined measured value with a reference function determined before the machining process using a reference machining process carried out before the machining process using the machine tool and/or by a further machine tool and stored in an electronic memory device, the reference function characterizing the reference machining process to machine a second workpiece of a second batch.

Disclosed is a chip processing device for a machine tool, including a cleaning nozzle control unit 30 that controls a cleaning nozzle for spraying a cleaning fluid onto chips scattered during machining so as to guide the chips to a chip collection portion, wherein the cleaning nozzle control unit 30 includes: a position estimation unit 31 that estimates an accumulation position of generated chips by analyzing machining conditions of a workpiece; and a nozzle orientation adjustment unit 34 that adjusts an orientation of the cleaning nozzle toward the accumulation position estimated by the position estimation unit 31.

Provided is a method for optimizing the occupancy of magazine spaces by tools within at least one tool magazine for a machine tool in a computer-supported manner, including: detecting a quantity of magazine spaces in at least one tool magazine, detecting a first quantity of tools which occupy at least one magazine space and the magazine spaces occupied by the tools, detecting a second quantity of tools which are to be additionally received in the at least one tool magazine, detecting the required space and optionally at least one other property for each tool, detecting a quantity of allowed magazines spaces for each tool, detecting a quantity of allowed magazine space pairs, wherein a first tool can be placed on a first magazine space of the magazine space pair, and optimizing the occupancy of the magazine spaces.

A machine tool which is designed to carry out a specified sequence of work steps is provided. A tool and a processing time is assigned to each work step. A tool magazine is designed to keep a number of tools ready for the machine tool and includes a feeder for conveying tools from and to a transfer point for the machine tool. In a method for assigning tools to spaces of the tool magazine, a number of work steps are determined from the sequence, the respective processing time of each work step being shorter than a specified cycle time of the tool magazine. A work step is iteratively selected from the number of work steps; a previously used tool and a subsequently used tool are assigned spaces of the tool magazine; and the work step is removed from the number of work steps.

Operating device for a machining device configured to machine workpieces consisting preferably at least in sections of wood, said operating device comprising: a display device, and a selection device, wherein the operating device is configured such that on the selection device, a user can select machining operations on a workpiece and that, based on the selected machining operations, a 3D model corresponding to the machined workpiece is shown in the display device.