A servo actuator controlling system includes a master controller and a number of servo actuators coupled to at least one interface of the master controller. The master controller includes a master MCU and a number of interfaces connected to the master MCU via a first bus. Each servo actuator includes a servo MCU, a first interface coupled to the servo MCU via a second bus, a second interface coupled the first Interface and the serve MCU, a first servo switch connected between the first interface and the servo MCU, and a second servo switch connected between the second interface and the servo MCU. The first servo switch is set to turn on or off the first interface and the second servo switch is set to turn on or off the second interface.

A production control system includes: a plurality of tag devices each attached to a corresponding one of a plurality of vehicles each having an identification code and moving along a production line together with the plurality of vehicles to identify positions of the plurality of vehicles, the plurality of tag devices each having a tag ID; a tag reader disposed on the production line and configured to recognize the tag ID of the tag device; a code reader disposed on the production line and configured to recognize the identification code of the vehicle; and a server configured to receive the identification code of the vehicle from the code reader and receive the tag ID of the tag device from the tag reader and map the identification code and the tag ID.

The machine tool apparatus comprises: multiple work machine modules configured to sequentially perform a series of manufacturing-related operations on a workpiece; a robot configured to convey the workpiece between the multiple work machine modules; an individual information-providing device configured to provide an individual information to the workpiece conveyed into the multiple work machine modules and subjected to manufacturing-related operations; a storage device; and a control device configured to link the manufacturing history of manufacturing-related operations performed on the workpiece by the multiple work machine modules and store the information in the storage section, the workpiece being a workpiece to which the individual information was provided by the individual information-providing device.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a reader to extract cleaning instructions associated with a three-dimensional (3D) printed object. The cleaning instructions include a termination condition to indicate when object cleaning is complete. The system also includes a controller to instruct at least one cleaning device to clean the 3D printed object based on the cleaning instructions. A measurement system of the system determines when the termination condition is met.

A device for dynamically generating numerical controller software of machine tool includes a software function-specification managing unit, a function-module storage unit and a function-module composing unit. The software function-specification managing unit is to produce a text description file describing function modules required by the numerical controller software, and then for performing specification analysis upon the text description file to generate a function module table including the function modules. The function-module storage unit is to memorize and manage the function modules, wherein the function-module storage unit confirms whether or not the function-module storage unit has been furnished with the f function modules required by the numerical controller software. The function-module composing unit is to retrieve the required function modules from the function-module storage unit, and further to set the connection among the function modules to compose the numerical controller software. In addition, a method for the device is also provided.

According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive a file including data of an object to be fabricated and data of a predefined mark to be formed on the object and determine whether the predefined mark is authentic. The instructions may also cause the processor to, based on a determination that the predefined mark is authentic, control fabricating components to fabricate the object, and control the fabricating components to form the predefined mark on the object during fabrication of the object.

Methods and systems are provided for mass producing different products in an automated production station having a plurality of part-processing devices. An example method includes identifying a workpiece received in the production station; selecting control parameters associated with the identified workpiece; electronically synchronizing the part-processing devices based on the selected control parameters to perform coordinated operations on the workpiece for producing one of the different products; and automatically repeating the identifying, selecting, and synchronizing steps for different workpieces received in the production station to produce a plurality of different products in a continuous mass production process.

A device for dynamically generating numerical controller software of machine tool includes a software function-specification managing unit, a function-module storage unit and a function-module composing unit. The software function-specification managing unit is to produce a text description file describing function modules required by the numerical controller software, and then for performing specification analysis upon the text description file to generate a function module table including the function modules. The function-module storage unit is to memorize and manage the function modules, wherein the function-module storage unit confirms whether or not the function-module storage unit has been furnished with the f function modules required by the numerical controller software. The function-module composing unit is to retrieve the required function modules from the function-module storage unit, and further to set the connection among the function modules to compose the numerical controller software. In addition, a method for the device is also provided.

Components are assembled in an industrial machine together with a controller. The components each include a unique identification information memory portion and a component-side configuration history memory portion. The unique identification information memory portion stores, as unique identification information, identification information of the component itself, which is providable to the controller. The component-side configuration history memory portion stores configuration histories that each summarize, in terms of an acquisition timing from the controller, the unique identification information of the component itself, controller identification information of the controller that was used to configure the industrial machine together with the component itself, and unique identification information of other ones, than the controller, of the components, which were also used to configure the industrial machine together with the component itself.

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.