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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2018
Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A data collection device capable of reducing the load of a data collection process and network communication by monitoring trigger at a plurality of cycles is provided. The data collection device includes a control unit, and the control unit includes: an event monitoring unit that acquires first trigger information from the machine tool at a first cycle and monitors whether a starting condition and an ending condition for acquisition of the data have been established on the basis of the first trigger information; a sampling control unit that instructs the machine tool to sample the data at a second cycle shorter than the first cycle when the starting condition is established and instructs the machine tool to end the sampling when the ending condition is established; and a data acquisition unit that acquires the data sampled by the machine tool from the machine tool together with second trigger information.