An industrial machine management system includes circuitry that collects changeable setting data of an industrial machine, determines, based on the setting data at each time point of multiple time points, whether a change has been made to the setting data, and outputs change information regarding the change when the change is determined as having been made to the setting data.

A setting system performs setting required for causing a field device to perform a predetermined operation on the field device. The setting system includes a server apparatus configured to provide device setting data in which identification information of the field device and setting data to be set in the field device are associated with other, and an input/output device that is a device interposed between the field device and a control device controlling the field device. In a case in which connection between the input/output device and the field device has been established, the input/output device is configured to perform the setting of the field device by transmitting, to the field device, the setting data associated with the identification information of the field device with which the connection has been established out of the device setting data provided from the server apparatus.

The invention relates to a container-processing system and to a method having safety-oriented management of settings for a container-processing system. The container-processing system comprises: at least one container-processing machine for processing containers, at least one container-processing machine having a type memory, in which different data sets for types of processing to be performed by the container-processing machine are stored and can be selected for processing containers; and at least one management device for managing the storing of the data set, the at least one management device being configured, in the event of the creation of one of the data set, to produce a main version (V1_A to V1_D) of the data set and to assign a status (A to D) to the main version (V1_A to V1_D), to retain the main version (V1_A to V1_D), in case a change is made to the main version (V1_A to V1_D) without a change in the status (A to D), and to additionally create, for the change to the main version (V1_A to V1_D), a secondary version (V1.1_A to V1.N_A; V1.1_B to V1.N_B; V1.1_D to V1.N_D) having the status (A to D) of the main version (V1_A to V1_D), and to set the scope of the access to the main version (V1_A to V1_D) and to the at least one secondary version (V1.1_A to V1.N_A; V1.1_B to V1.N_B; V1.1_D to V1.N_D) by an operator of the at least one container-processing machine in dependence on the status (A to D) and a predefined authorization of an operator.

A system for using digital twins to interact with physical objects in an automation system includes a plurality of controller devices, a process image backbone, and a registry comprising a plurality of digital twins. Each respective controller device comprises a volatile computer-readable storage medium comprising a process image area. The process image backbone provides the controllers with uniform access to the process image area of each controller. Each digital twin in the registry corresponds to a physical device controllable via one of the controllers devices via a corresponding process image area.

A tool information setting device includes: a first storage portion in which a tool holder number and a torque limiting value of tool information, which are associated with each other, are stored; a second storage portion in which a turret face number and a tool holder number, which are associated with each other, are stored; and a torque limiting value setting portion as a tool information setting portion that acquires the tool holder number from the second storage portion based on the turret face number described in the machining program. The torque limiting value setting portion acquires a torque limiting value from the first storage portion based on the acquired tool holder number when selecting a predetermined tool by the turret face number of the turret on which the predetermined tool is mounted.

A plant network entrance device includes a change information reception unit configured to receive change information for changing a control parameter of a plant facility from a change execution device, a change information transmission unit configured to transmit the change information to the plant facility, an operation data acquisition unit configured to acquire pre-change operation data that is operation data before a time at which a change in the control parameter based on the change information is made and post-change operation data that is operation data after the time at which the change is made, an improvement rate calculation unit configured to calculate an improvement rate for operation states before and after the change on the basis of the pre-change operation data and the post-change operation data, and an improvement rate transmission unit configured to transmit the improvement rate to the change execution device.

The invention relates to a container-processing system and to a method having safety-oriented management of settings for a container-processing system. The container-processing system comprises: at least one container-processing machine for processing containers, at least one container-processing machine having a type memory, in which different data sets for types of processing to be performed by the container-processing machine are stored and can be selected for processing containers; and at least one management device for managing the storing of the data set, the at least one management device being configured, in the event of the creation of one of the data set, to produce a main version (V1_A to V1_D) of the data set and to assign a status (A to D) to the main version (V1_A to V1_D), to retain the main version (V1_A to V1_D), in case a change is made to the main version (V1_A to V1_D) without a change in the status (A to D), and to additionally create, for the change to the main version (V1_A to V1_D), a secondary version (V1.1_A to V1.N_A; V1.1_B to V1.N_B; V1.1_D to V1.N_D) having the status (A to D) of the main version (V1_A to V1_D), and to set the scope of the access to the main version (V1_A to V1_D) and to the at least one secondary version (V1.1_A to V1.N_A; V1.1_B to V1.N_B; V1.1_D to V1.N_D) by an operator of the at least one container-processing machine in dependence on the status (A to D) and a predefined authorization of an operator.

An object is to more appropriately perform settings in the setting of the control of a machine tool. A setting device includes: a first reception unit which receives the specification of a first setting value for at least one or more parameters on the control of a machine tool; a second reception unit which receives the specification of a second setting value for the parameter after the reception of the first setting value; a third reception unit which receives the specification of a selection condition for determining which one of the first setting value and the second setting value is selected; and a selection unit which selects, based on the selection condition whose specification is received by the third reception unit, any one of the first setting value and the second setting value as a setting value that is applied to the parameter.

A control device includes a setting detection unit that detects a setting operation on a value of a setting item related to control of the industrial machine and a notification unit configured to notify information related to the setting operation. The setting detection unit can detect a setting operation caused by execution of an MDI program, a setting operation caused by execution of a machining program, a setting operation caused by an external signal, and a setting operation caused by a higher-level management server. The notification unit provides a notification using a guidance message, a popup window, voice, an external signal, or information transmission via a network.

A computer network has ports connected to production machines (PM) and communicating with an assigned virtual user interface and a higher-ranking facility located outside the PM. Connection of an additional PM is monitored, in which case a commissioning service automatically assigns a virtual user interface to the additional PM, re-initializes an individual virtual computer network within the computer network and connects the additional PM to the virtual user interface via the re-initialized virtual computer network. Communication between the additional PM and the assigned virtual user interface is isolated from other communications until, a release command is specified. A then activated integration service automatically re-initializes a virtual router for connection to the additional PM via the virtual computer network and configures the re-initialized virtual router such that the additional PM communicates with the higher-ranking facility via the re-initialized virtual router.