A control unit to ascertain one or more parameters of a control program and/or of a control system for a robot manipulator, wherein the control unit includes: an interactive operating unit to display a first adjustment element and a specified region for the first adjustment element, wherein the first adjustment element is moveable within the specified region via an input of a user, the interactive operating unit further to detect a user-specified position of the first adjustment element and transmit the user-specified position; and a computing unit to receive the user-specified position and ascertain weightings for a specified cost function as a function of the position, wherein a sum of the weightings is constant for all positions of the adjustment element, the computing unit further to ascertain the parameters of the control program and/or of the control system for the robot manipulator based on the cost function.

A method to be performed in a production support system configured to process a raw material and to produce a product. And the method includes: acquiring a plurality of element values relating to production elements of the product; determining whether the element values are within allowable ranges in which a quality of the product meets a predetermined allowed quality; resetting the allowable ranges of one or a plurality of other element values to the allowable ranges in which the quality of the product meets the predetermined allowed quality, upon determining that at least one element value exceeds the allowable range; and outputting information about the reset allowable ranges.

A method includes obtaining parameter values for multiple process variables associated with at least one industrial process, where the parameter values for each process variable include low and high limits and a current value. The method also includes presenting a graphical display that includes radial lines each associated with a different one of the process variables, a first graphical indicator passing through the radial lines and identifying the low limits of the process variables, a second graphical indicator passing through the radial lines and identifying the high limits of the process variables, and third graphical indicators identifying the current values of the process variables along the radial lines.

A method to be performed in a production support system configured to process a raw material and to produce a product. And the method includes: acquiring a plurality of element values relating to production elements of the product; determining whether the element values are within allowable ranges in which a quality of the product meets a predetermined allowed quality; resetting the allowable ranges of one or a plurality of other element values to the allowable ranges in which the quality of the product meets the predetermined allowed quality, upon determining that at least one element value exceeds the allowable range; and outputting information about the reset allowable ranges.

A method includes obtaining parameter values for multiple process variables associated with at least one industrial process, where the parameter values for each process variable include low and high limits and a current value. The method also includes presenting a graphical display that includes radial lines each associated with a different one of the process variables, a first graphical indicator passing through the radial lines and identifying the low limits of the process variables, a second graphical indicator passing through the radial lines and identifying the high limits of the process variables, and third graphical indicators identifying the current values of the process variables along the radial lines.