Incs, Inc.

Katsunori Shimomura

Seiki Sato

Shinjiro Yamada

Tomohito Ohmori

Michiyo Kuwabara

Katsuji Iwasaki

Keiji Okamoto

Hidenori Sasaki

A manufacturing process control apparatus that controls a manufacturing process divided into a plurality of steps that are controlled by a plurality of user terminals, comprising transmitting means that, when conditions for the execution of one step of said plurality of steps are met, transmits to the user terminal that controls said one step information to the effect that said step can be started, and receiving means that, when said one step of the plurality of steps is complete, receives from the user terminal that controls said one step information to the effect that said one step is complete.

Method and device for executing work consisting of a plurality of steps under computer control

A method of executing a plurality of steps that are performed sequentially in temporal order under computer control. Each of the plurality of steps is executed by one of a plurality of terminal computers. When a terminal computer assigned to a step has completed the work in the step and is able to execute the work in the next step, it sends a work completion signal to a central processing computer. The central processing computer receives this work completion signal and prepares a work item notice that indicates that the next step can be started, such that the notice can be displayed on the screen of the terminal computer used for the next step. The terminal computer used for the next step allows the notice displayed on its screen to be clicked to start work on the next step assigned to it.

A method of executing a plurality of steps that are performed sequentially in temporal order under computer control is provided wherein a central processing computer and a plurality of terminal computers are provided. Each of the plurality of steps is executed by one of the terminal computers. When one of the terminal computers assigned to a single step has completed the work in the step assigned to it and is able to execute the work in the next step, that terminal computer sends a work completion signal to the central processing computer. The central processing computer receives this work completion signal and prepares a work item notice that indicates that the next step can be started, such that the notice can be displayed on the screen of the terminal computer used for the next step. The terminal computer used for the next step allows the work item notice displayed on its display screen to be clicked to start work on the next step assigned to it.

The present invention relates to a data generating device, a data generating method and a data generating program for generating numerical data for controlling the operation of a cutting tool when machining an article. A data generating device of the present invention comprises geometric data input means to which a set of geometric data representing a shape of said article to be machined is input, partial geometric data generating means for dividing the set of geometric data into a plurality of sets of partial geometric data each representing one of a plurality of article parts constituting said article to be machined, a plurality of partial numerical control data generating means for generating from said sets of partial geometric data sets of partial numerical control data for machining article parts represented by the partial geometric data and numerical data unifying means for generating a set of numerical control data for machining the whole of said article to be machined by unifying the plurality of sets of said partial numerical control data.

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Katsunori Shimomura