Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Robert Boschgmbh

Siemens Aktiengesell Schaft

Kai Wurm

Wendelin Feiten

Vladimir Zahorcak

Michael Pirker

Gisbert Lawitzky

Steffen Lamparter

Andrei Szabo

Jörg Neidig

Werner Neubauer

Markus Michael Geipel

Harald Held

Michael Fiegert

Philipp Sebastian Schmitt

Mathias Maurmaier

Amer Mesanovic

Frank Buschmann

Daniel Meyer-Delius Di Vasto

Dimitri Lomakin

Philipp Emanuel Stelzig

Michael Brucksch

Philine Meister

Ziyuan Liu

Vincent Dietrich

A method and a device for the mutual monitoring and/or control of a multiplicity of autonomous technical systems which are at least partially interconnected to one another via a communication network is provided. At least one of the autonomous technical systems is embodied as a monitoring autonomous technical system and monitors the operating behaviour of other autonomous technical systems. Since a specified first rule, the monitoring autonomous technical system detects an operating behavior, which is contrary to the rule, of a first autonomous technical system and generates a status message about the operating behavior which is contrary to the rule therefrom. Depending on the evaluation, a control rule is derived for the first autonomous technical system and communicated to a control module which is assigned to the first autonomous technical system. The operating behavior of the first autonomous technical system is controlled on the basis of the control rule.

Method and device for mutual monitoring and/or control of autonomous technical systems

A pick & place operation picking a non-electric component and placing the picked component onto a component-carrier and a connect operation connecting the placed component with the component-carrier by implementing a connection technology on a hybrid, at least reactive and deliberative machine architecture based on a 'machine world model' as a digital twin to formulate correct machine-behavioral sets being used during machine run-time as well as an “machine workflow”, and executing by machine motion generation including a collision-free motion or path planning of a machine within a machine workspace primary kinematic machine-movement-sequences enabling the pick & place operation and secondary kinematic machine-movement-sequences enabling the connect operation, and enabling the execution via the machine motion generation by initializing the “machine world model” according to a configuration file configuring the machine and the machine workspace and instantiating the “machine workflow” and updating the “machine world model” with a design of the component-carrier.

Method and assembly unit for assembling non-electric components onto a component carrier

A method for providing output values with associated uncertainties for a flexible modular plant or machine comprising an arrangement of modular entities, wherein uncertainty information associated with an operation of the modular entity is assigned to a plurality of modular entities and input values are provided based on an operation of the modular entities, where a computing unit calculates an output value based on said input values, calculates an input value uncertainty for each input value based on the uncertainty information of the modular entity, and calculates at least one output value uncertainty associated with the output value based on propagation of uncertainty and using the input value uncertainties, and where the output value and the at least one output value uncertainty are output.

Device and method for automatic calculation of measurement confidence in flexible modular plants and machines

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 control device for a production module having a data memory for storing operational settings of production modules and restrictions, which must be complied with by at least some of the operational settings. A settings management module is used to determine the external operational setting of an adjacent production module on which a local operational setting of the production module is dependent on the basis of a common restriction. An optimization module is also provided and has a local assessment function, which assesses the local operational setting, and a further assessment function which assesses noncompliance with the common restriction.

Control device for a production module, production module having a control device, and method for operating the control device

A control device for a production module that has a settings management module for detecting restrictions for operating settings of the production module and for producing corresponding restriction data records is provided. A data memory is provided for the purpose of storing a local restriction table containing a multiplicity of restriction data records. A balancing module is used to iteratively read in first restriction data records in a corresponding restriction table of a first adjacent production module, to iteratively build the local restriction table on the basis of the first restriction data records which have been read in and to iteratively forward second restriction data records in the local restriction table to a second adjacent production module. A control module is also provided for the purpose of setting an operating setting according to a restriction data record which identifies this operating setting.

Control device for a production module and a method for operating the control device

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

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