Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag

Heiner Schilling

Horst Klingler

Karsten Wendt

Gerold Wende

Johannes Tenfelde

Michael Hess

Heiner Sirowitzki

Matthias Zoll

Sven Olaf Cabus

Hans-Martin Reinert

A computer controlled sheet-fed offset printing machine is described which includes an Interpreter-program for obtaining an image of the signal-state of specified interfaces of the many interfaces that are needed for the operation of the computerized printing press. The Interpreter-program has access to a reserved region of memory for storing and manipulating, if desired, the image of the signal-state. Furthermore, the Interpreter-program has very limited and defined access to the inputs and resources used by the control programs used to operate the computerized printing press. This ensures that the control programs can execute in real-time unaffected by the execution of the Interpreter-program while data is acquired by the Interpreter-program while the computerized printing press is in operation. The Interpreter-program can execute diagnostic routines and provide data for detecting and correcting errors that are otherwise hard to localize in a complex system with complex software.

Control computer for a printing machine

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Darmstadt, Germany

Heiner Schilling