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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2017
Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
Yoshiharu Nagatsuka, Yamanashi, JP;
FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A simulation apparatus includes a backup information input unit that reads backup information containing parameters and operation programs of a plurality of automated machines operating according to interactive interlock signals; a virtual device generator that generates virtual devices of respective ones of the plurality of automated machines on the basis of the parameters contained in the backup information; an I/O association relationship storage that stores an association of the interlock signals between the plurality of automated machines; an I/O connecting unit that connects the interlock signals between the virtual devices generated in the virtual device generator in accordance with the association stored in the I/O association relationship storage; and a program executing unit that executes the operation programs read by the backup information input unit.