A machining command improving system is in an integrated system in which a CNC machine tool for machining of a machining target into a predetermined machining geometry a machining command and a shared database are connected to each other. The machining command improving system includes: a machining state recording unit that associates requested information indicating a request to be satisfied in the machining when the CNC machine tool performs the machining and state information indicating a state of implementation of the machining, and registers the associated requested information and state information as machining technique information; and a machining method improving unit. The machining method improving unit improves the machining command of the improvement target at the CNC machine tool based on machining technique information registered with the shared database and including requested information conforming at least partially to requested information corresponding to a machining command of an improvement target.

A machine tool management system connects an external server and a large number of NC devices controlling the external server and respective machine tools through a network. The system collects several kinds of signal data from the NC device of each machine tool to the external server. In the system, the external server stores a maintenance period model and a refinement algorithm and obtains a next maintenance period from the maintenance period model.

A machine tool management method, a machine tool management system and a medium are disclosed, the machine tool management method including: determining at least one target component of a machine tool; generating an evaluation result of the machine tool according to a preset processing rule based on the determined at least one target component; for each target component of one or more target components in the at least one target component, acquiring a target evaluation result corresponding to the target component from the evaluation result of the machine tool; determining a preset management rule based on the target evaluation result and type information and attribute information of the target component, and managing the target component according to the preset management rule.

A machine tool management method, a machine tool management system and a medium are disclosed, the machine tool management method including: determining at least one target component of a machine tool; generating an evaluation result of the machine tool according to a preset processing rule based on the determined at least one target component; for each target component of one or more target components in the at least one target component, acquiring a target evaluation result corresponding to the target component from the evaluation result of the machine tool; determining a preset management rule based on the target evaluation result and type information and attribute information of the target component, and managing the target component according to the preset management rule.

A production asset monitoring system, for monitoring current operating states of one or more production assets, associates a respective state machine which each asset in the one or more production assets, where each state machine implements a plurality of operating states, out of which operating states at least one state is categorized as a productive state and at least one state is categorized as an unproductive state. The production asset monitoring system further comprises a sensor system configured to detect a current operating state for each state machine, and the production asset monitoring system is configured to aggregate the states of a plurality of assets into a report indicative of production asset utilization.

Disclosed herein is a management method of a processing tool mounted to a processing apparatus. The management method includes an information input step of inputting product type information that indicates a product type and a serial number displayed on the processing tool or a case of the processing tool to the processing apparatus when the processing tool is mounted to the processing apparatus, and a tallying step of counting the number of inputs of the serial number regarding each identical product type and tallying the number of uses regarding each product type from the input information. Order timing of each product type is determined from the number of uses.

A machining command improving system is in an integrated system in which a CNC machine tool for machining of a machining target into a predetermined machining geometry a machining command and a shared database are connected to each other. The machining command improving system includes: a machining state recording unit that associates requested information indicating a request to be satisfied in the machining when the CNC machine tool performs the machining and state information indicating a state of implementation of the machining, and registers the associated requested information and state information as machining technique information; and a machining method improving unit. The machining method improving unit improves the machining command of the improvement target at the CNC machine tool based on machining technique information registered with the shared database and including requested information conforming at least partially to requested information corresponding to a machining command of an improvement target.

An automated manufacturing process tooling setup assist system includes a controller configured to control movement and positioning of tools to provide a first tool spatial arrangement within a workspace. Responsive to an unsuccessful test process run using the tools in the first tool spatial arrangement, the controller may control movement of the tools so as to replace a tool in the first tool spatial arrangement with another tool configured to perform a function of the tool to be replaced. Responsive to a successful test process run using the tools in the first tool spatial arrangement, the controller may control movement of the tools so as to reposition one or more tools in the workspace to provide a second tool spatial arrangement within the workspace different from the first tool spatial arrangement.

A machine tool management system connects an external server and a large number of NC devices controlling the external server and respective machine tools through a network. The system collects several kinds of signal data from the NC device of each machine tool to the external server. In the system, the external server collects an estimated thermal distortion from the NC device and compares the estimated thermal distortion with pre-stored data to determine whether the tool is machining favorably.

A machining condition selecting device includes a machining condition contribution data management unit configured to manage machining condition contribution data in which each of a plurality of machining conditions is associated with a 3-dimensional surface roughness parameter and degrees of contribution to each item of a required condition related to productivity of a target product; a matter of priority acquisition unit configured to acquire a combination of the 3-dimensional surface roughness parameter and at least one item of the required condition as a matter of priority; and a machining condition selection data management unit configured to manage, for each of the plurality of machining conditions, machining condition selection data in which a combination pattern of the matters of priority is associated with a sum of the degrees of contribution to each item in the combination pattern.