A control unit that controls an automatic milking machine to operate in accordance with control commands and/or parameter settings received from either of a local user interface fixedly arranged at the milking machine or a remote terminal, where the control unit, in response to receiving a lock command from one of the local user interface or the remote terminal, causes the automatic milking machine to operate in a single-control mode in which it operates exclusively to commands and/or parameter settings received from the one of the local user interface or the remote terminal that generated the lock command, in order to ensure predictable and safer operation of the milking machine particularly in view of personnel located in proximity of the milking machine.

A computer implemented method for configuring a coating process to deposit a targeted mono- or multi-layered coating on a substrate, the method providing as output a series of ordered tasks executed on the coating process, and includes (a) providing a dataset including a data related to parameters of the coating process; (b) providing a set of algorithms which takes, as input, data from the dataset of (a) and provides, as output, series of at least one tasks associated to each algorithm; selecting two algorithms from the set of algorithms depending on current states of the coating process as provided as input data, and (d) selecting an order in which the algorithms selected at (c) has to be carried out so that the tasks provided by the algorithms are organized as a series of ordered tasks which are executed contextually onto the coating process at corresponding stages in the coating process.

A control unit that controls an automatic milking machine to operate in accordance with control commands and/or parameter settings received from either of a local user interface fixedly arranged at the milking machine or a remote terminal, where the control unit, in response to receiving a lock command from one of the local user interface or the remote terminal, causes the automatic milking machine to operate in a single-control mode in which it operates exclusively to commands and/or parameter settings received from the one of the local user interface or the remote terminal that generated the lock command, in order to ensure predictable and safer operation of the milking machine particularly in view of personnel located in proximity of the milking machine.

A computer implemented method for configuring a coating process to deposit a targeted mono- or multi-layered coating on a substrate, the method providing as output a series of ordered tasks executed on the coating process, and includes (a) providing a dataset including a data related to parameters of the coating process; (b) providing a set of algorithms which takes, as input, data from the dataset of (a) and provides, as output, series of at least one tasks associated to each algorithm; selecting two algorithms from the set of algorithms depending on current states of the coating process as provided as input data, and (d) selecting an order in which the algorithms selected at (c) has to be carried out so that the tasks provided by the algorithms are organized as a series of ordered tasks which are executed contextually onto the coating process at corresponding stages in the coating process.