A system for selection and configuration of an automated robotic process includes a media input module structured to receive at least one functional media, a media analysis module structured to analyze the at least one functional media and identify an action parameter; and a solution selection module structured to select at least one component of an AI solution for use in an automated robotic process, wherein the selection is based, at least in part, on the action parameter.

An equipment inspection system receives data captured by a sensor of an autonomous vehicle (AV). The captured data describes a current state of equipment for servicing the AV. The equipment inspection system compares the captured data to a model describing an expected state of the equipment. The equipment inspection system determines, based on the comparison, that the equipment differs from the expected state. The equipment inspection system may transmit data describing the current state of the equipment to an equipment manager. The equipment manager may schedule maintenance for the equipment based on the current state of the equipment.

A system and method for improving additive manufacturing, including additive manufacturing toolpaths, is provided. The system and method includes a toolpath generator that obtains initial toolpaths of an object, identifies isolated paths in the toolpaths, and adds bridge connections between neighboring isolated paths in each layer to improve the toolpaths. The bridge connections facilitate the continuous and non-stop deposition of each layer according to improved toolpaths during additive manufacture, which can reduce total deposition time and improve the resultant additive manufacture.

A system and method for improving additive manufacturing, including additive manufacturing toolpaths, is provided. The system and method includes a toolpath generator that obtains initial toolpaths of an object, identifies isolated paths in the toolpaths, and adds bridge connections between neighboring isolated paths in each layer to improve the toolpaths. The bridge connections facilitate the continuous and non-stop deposition of each layer according to improved toolpaths during additive manufacture, which can reduce total deposition time and improve the resultant additive manufacture.

To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.

To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.

In a board production line having multiple work devices arranged to transfer a board from upstream to downstream and perform a predetermined operation on the board, the board production line comprising: a shared folder having storage areas configured to store board-related information, the storage areas being multiply divided according to the number of the work devices, and transferring the board-related information among the storage areas, in conjunction with transferring the board, with a first work device capable of accessing the storage areas among the multiple work devices, and a management proxy section configured to access the shared folder in place of a second work device which cannot access the storage areas, and configured to manage the board-related information so that the board-related information can be transferred among the storage areas.

The invention relates to a method for ascertaining a rough trajectory from a specified contour for controlling a machine tool which has at least two mutually redundant drive devices for carrying out superimposed movements, wherein the contour is determined by a contour function which is defined in portions at least by contour nodal points P.sub.0-P.sub.n+1 with ascending indices and contour portion functions p.sub.0-p.sub.n assigned to the contour nodal points P.sub.0-P.sub.n+1 and has a contour starting nodal point P.sub.0, wherein the rough trajectory is determined by a rough trajectory function which is defined in portions by rough trajectory nodal points Q.sub.0 to Q.sub.n+1 with ascending indices and has a rough trajectory starting nodal point Q.sub.0, wherein the rough trajectory starting nodal point Q.sub.0 is equated to the contour starting nodal point P.sub.0 and then in a first iteration step, on the basis of the contour nodal points P.sub.j to P.sub.n+1, the index value k of which is greater than or equal to the index value j of the respective rough trajectory starting nodal point that contour nodal point P.sub.k which has the smallest possible index value k and the distance of which from the rough trajectory starting nodal point Q.sub.j still just satisfies a specified distance condition is ascertained, and in a second iteration step, a respective following rough trajectory nodal point Q.sub.j+1 which follows the respective rough trajectory starting nodal point Q.sub.j and lies on a connecting line between Q.sub.j and P.sub.k or between Q.sub.j and a centroid of the portion contour P.sub.j to P.sub.k is ascertained.

A method and software is provided for machining a workpiece, including for determining a machining path for material-removing machining of a workpiece using a multi-axis machine tool, wherein control commands for controlling a number of N different machine axes of a machine tool can be generated from the machining path with computer support, according to which a tool can be moved continuously along the machining path, wherein the machining path comprises a first engagement path segment and a second engagement path segment along which the tool engages with the workpiece at least in sections, and wherein the machining path further comprises a connecting path segment along which the tool does not engage with the workpiece and which connects an end point of the first engagement path segment to a starting point of the second engagement path segment continuously and collision-free with the workpiece.

Disclosed is a plug-in radio module for automation engineering for wireless data transmission, having at least a wired interface for connecting to a corresponding wired field device interface of a field device and radio module electronics having a radio antenna, wherein the radio module electronics are configured to use the wired interfaces to query at least one current value of the field device and to use the current value to adapt a paging interval and/or a radio data width for the wireless data transmission as appropriate, so that the radio module electronics perform an adapted-power mode of operation in which the wireless data transmission is matched to the power currently made available to the field device.