Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

Dmg Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

Kingo Maeda

Makoto Fujishima

Shizuo Nishikawa

Masahiro Komatsu

Yuichi Nakazawa

Akio Karyu

Akira Kimura

Katsuhiko Ono

Keiichi Nakamachi

Kimiyuki Nishimura

Norio Sato

Hideki Takedomi

Electronic equipment, including a GPS dongle and a PC, compares an acquired current location position of the electronic equipment with an acquired planned installation position of a machine tool to determine whether or not the current location position is within a predetermined range from the planned installation position. Further, the electronic equipment determines, if it is determined that the current location position is within the predetermined range from the planned installation position, whether or not a predetermined condition has been satisfied. The electronic equipment also performs, if it is determined that the predetermined condition has been satisfied, information input processing on the machine tool to remove activation restriction on the machine tool. In this manner, the electronic equipment can prevent illegal removal of activation restriction on the machine tool.

Electronic equipment, and restriction removal method

A data transmission system in accordance with the present invention is configured so that a control deviceof an NC machine toolmay be connected to a data management device via a network. The control devicecomprises a data storage sectionwhich stores data, a setting data storage sectionwhich stores setting data for determining whether or not to approve a transmission and/or reception for every data stored in the data storage section, and a data transmission/reception sectionwhich is configured so that a transmission and/or reception process may be performed only on data which has been approved for transmission and/or reception by referring to the setting data stored in the setting data storage section

Control device capable of data communication and transmission system provided therewith

Operational administration system enabling reduction in expense burden on user, and permitting manufacturer to comprehend accurately and timely operational status of machine tools on user end. Operational administration system () includes, interconnected via Internet (): manufacturer-end administration device (); operational data storage/transmission devices () connected to numerical controllers for NC machine tools (); and user-end terminal device (). The operational data storage/transmission devices () gather from the numerical controllers data pertaining to the operational status of the NC machine tools (), store the data and, when specified transmission conditions are met, send the stored operational status data to administration device () in an e-mail data format. With the received operational status data, administration device () updates operational status data it stores, and sends to terminal device (), in response to a request therefrom, machine-tool operational status data identified by user ID information appropriately input through terminal device ().

Operation management system

The invention relates to a maintenance system for machine tool. In the maintenance, system , a user management apparatus connected to a numerical control section of a machine tool , and a manufacturer management apparatus disposed on a side of a manufacturer are connected to each other via Internet . The user management apparatus collects data relating to an operating condition of each driving mechanism of the machine tool , and accumulates the data. When a predetermined transmission condition is satisfied, the user management apparatus transmits the accumulated operating condition data to the manufacturer management apparatus in the form of an electronic mail. The manufacturer management apparatus evaluates the consumption degree of each driving mechanism based on the received operating condition data, and outputs an alarm when the consumption degree exceeds a reference value.

Maintenance system for machine tool

An information transmission system according to the present invention is constructed by connecting a transmission device which transmits information to an NC machine tool via a network . The NC machine tool comprises an operating panel including an operation key , a keyboard , and a screen display section , and a control device consisting of an input/output control section which has a display control section . The display control section receives information transmitted from the transmission device via the network , and display the same on the screen display section . Since the received information is automatically displayed on the screen display section of the operating panel being frequently looked at while an operator operates the NC machine tool , and that makes it possible to certainly give information to be given to the operator quickly and efficiently.

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Kingo Maeda