Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Gisbert Lawitzky

Michael Pirker

Kai Wurm

Vladimir Zahorcak

Steffen Lamparter

Wendelin Feiten

Hans-Peter Huth

Michael Fiegert

Amine Mohamed Houyou

Frank Buschmann

J&ouml;rg Helbach

Franz-Josef Schmitt

Wolf-Dietrich Moller

The invention relates to a device for use in production, which offers at least one production service or is connectable to a device offering a production service comprising a physical interface across which data in relation to at least one physical property are exchanged with at least one other device; further comprising a cyber physical interface across which data in relation to production service properties are exchanged with at least one other device; and comprising a communication interface across which at least one communication link having defined communication properties can be established. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.

Device for use in production and method for establishing a production interaction

A production module for performing a production function on a product, production system, production planning device, and method for planning the production of the product, wherein a plurality of production modules are intercoupled, where a self-description information set is stored within each production module as a database, e.g., NoSQL, OWL, ontology, SPARQL, which comprises properties of the production module, where if a production information set comprising the production steps required to produce the product is present, then the production information set and the self-description information sets or parts thereof are transmitted to a production planning device to plan production of the product and a production procedure plan for a product to be processed is determined, and where the production procedure plan comprises an information set about a sequence of production modules of the production system, which sequence a product should pass through to produce an intermediate product or end product.

Method for planning the manufacture of a product and production module having self-description information

Provided is a production module for processing or handling a product in a production system, which production module has a product detection module for reading in product parameters associated to the product, and an interaction module for assigning an adjacent production module to a transfer port. Furthermore, a local assignment table is provided, in which non-adjacent conveying objectives in the production system are in each case assigned to one of the transfer ports. A balancing module serves for iterative reading of first assignment information of a corresponding assignment table of a first adjacent production module, for iterative formation of the local assignment table with the aid of the read-in first assignment information, and for iterative transfer of second assignment information of the local assignment table to a second adjacent production module.

Production module, production system, and method for operating a production module

In a path planning method is disclosed for surface processing machines such as, for example, cleaning machines in a supermarket first, potential sub-paths are produced that, proceeding from boundary lines of obstacles or the work area parallel to these boundary lines shifted by the width of the processing device are erected in the form of concentric circles. These potential sub-paths are then sub-divided by maneuvering marks according to an heuristics, for example on the basis of the maneuverability of the mobile unit, and are connected to one another by sub-paths. The respective sub-paths are subsequently evaluated with a cost function that considers the distances, the area already covered, and the maneuverability of the unit, and the most cost-beneficial path is combined to form a planned path for the mobile unit. Preferably, sub-paths between the maneuvering marks are interpreted as graph edges and the maneuvering marks are interpreted as nodes and are evaluated with known evaluation methods for generating optimum graphs. Areas of employment are cleaning robots for supermarkets, lawnmowers, or painting devices and the like.

Path planning process for a mobile surface treatment unit

A circuit arrangement (1000, 2000), preferably for a coupling network component of a network node in a packet-switching data network, is disclosed which has a wide parallelization of the data packet signal by means of shift registers (60), so that it is possible to operate internally with a greatly reduced operating speed. In particular, an arrangement of the components on a single semiconductor wafer (3000, 4000) permits an especially wide bus (20), which can be constructed extremely advantageously with a surface-optimized floor plan (3000, 4000).

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Gisbert Lawitzky