CN117182626A - Feeding and discharging system of machine tool and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a blanking system and electronic equipment on lathe, and this system includes: the device comprises a data acquisition server, a programmable logic controller, a machine tool, a loading and unloading robot and a loading and unloading device, wherein the data acquisition server is respectively communicated with the programmable logic controller and the machine tool, the programmable logic controller is respectively communicated with the machine tool, the robot and the loading and unloading device, and the data acquisition server is used for judging whether materials exist on the machine tool or not based on loading and unloading instructions when receiving loading and unloading requests so as to obtain a judging result, generating and sending loading and unloading instructions to the programmable logic controller based on the judging result; and the programmable logic controller is used for receiving the feeding and discharging instructions and controlling the feeding and discharging robot based on the feeding and discharging instructions, wherein the feeding and discharging robot is controlled to drive the feeding and discharging device to execute feeding and discharging actions on the machine tool. Through this disclosure, can set up assorted automatic unloading scheme for the lathe, improve work efficiency, reduce the cost of labor.

Description

Machine tool loading and unloading systems and electronic equipment

Technical field

The present disclosure relates to the field of industrial automation technology, and in particular to a machine tool loading and unloading system and electronic equipment.

Background technique

Machine tool loading and unloading is an action in which robots replace manual labor in loading, unloading, and unloading materials on the machine. With the development of mechanical automation, more and more automatic loading and unloading equipment for machine tools have appeared. However, current machine tool loading and unloading equipment can usually only simply grab or release, with a single action, which cannot meet the needs of automated loading and unloading in actual business scenarios.

Contents of the invention

The present disclosure aims to solve one of the technical problems in the related art, at least to a certain extent.

To this end, the purpose of this disclosure is to propose a machine tool loading and unloading system and electronic equipment that can set up a matching automated loading and unloading solution for the machine tool, improve work efficiency, and reduce labor costs.

The machine tool loading and unloading system proposed by the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a data acquisition server, a programmable logic controller, a machine tool, a loading and unloading robot, and a loading and unloading device. The data acquisition server communicates with the programming logic controller and the machine tool respectively. The robot communicates with the loading and unloading device. The data collection server is used to determine whether there is material on the machine tool based on the loading and unloading request when receiving the loading and unloading request to obtain the judgment result, and generate a message to the programmable logic based on the judgment result. The controller sends loading and unloading instructions; the programmable logic controller is used to receive loading and unloading instructions and control the loading and unloading robot based on the loading and unloading instructions. When the loading and unloading robot is controlled, it drives the loading and unloading device to perform loading and unloading actions on the machine tool.

The machine tool loading and unloading system proposed by the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a data acquisition server, a programmable logic controller, a machine tool, a loading and unloading robot, and a loading and unloading device. The data acquisition server communicates with the programmable logic controller and the machine tool respectively. Communication, the programmable logic controller communicates with the machine tool, robot and loading and unloading device respectively. The data collection server is used to determine whether there is material on the machine tool based on the loading and unloading instructions when receiving the loading and unloading request to obtain the judgment result. , and generate and send loading and unloading instructions based on the judgment results to the programmable logic controller; the programmable logic controller is used to receive the loading and unloading instructions, and control the loading and unloading robot based on the loading and unloading instructions, where the loading and unloading robot is driven when it is controlled The loading and unloading device performs loading and unloading actions on the machine tool, and can set up a matching automated loading and unloading solution for the machine tool, improving work efficiency and reducing labor costs.

A second aspect of the present disclosure provides an electronic device, including: the machine tool loading and unloading system proposed in the embodiment of the first aspect of the present disclosure.

Additional aspects and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.

Description of the drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and readily understood from the following description of the embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a machine tool loading and unloading system proposed by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

Figure 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary electronic device suitable for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below. Examples of the embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals throughout represent the same or similar elements or elements with the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and are only used to explain the present disclosure and are not to be construed as limitations of the present disclosure. On the contrary, the disclosed embodiments include all changes, modifications and equivalents falling within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Figure 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a machine tool loading and unloading system proposed by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in Figure 1 (the implementation part of Figure 1 shows the structure of the machine tool loading and unloading system), the machine tool loading and unloading system 10 includes: a data collection server 101, a programmable logic controller 102, a machine tool 103, a loading and unloading robot 104 and a loading and unloading system. Device 105.

In this disclosed embodiment, the data collection server communicates with the programming logic controller and the machine tool respectively, and the robot and the loading and unloading device communicate with each other.

In this disclosed embodiment, the data collection server is connected to the programming logic controller based on Ethernet, and the robot and the loading and unloading device are connected based on Ethernet.

The data acquisition server and the machine tool communicate based on the (Fanuc Open CNC Application Specifications, FOCAS) protocol, the data acquisition server and the programmable logic controller communicate based on the Step7 protocol, and the programmable logic controller and the loading and unloading device communicate based on the Profibus protocol.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the data collection server 101 is used to determine whether there is material on the machine tool based on the loading and unloading request when receiving the loading and unloading request, so as to obtain the judgment result, and generate and send it to the programmable logic controller based on the judgment result. Loading and unloading instructions.

The loading and unloading request may be a trigger request made by the loading and unloading system based on the operation client to request the loading and unloading system to perform a loading and unloading operation.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the data collection server 101 is used to determine whether there is material on the machine tool based on the loading and unloading request when receiving the loading and unloading request, so as to obtain the corresponding judgment result. Then, based on the judgment result, a report can be generated to the available The programming logic controller sends loading and unloading instructions (where the loading and unloading instructions include: loading instructions or unloading instructions).

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the data collection server may detect whether there is material on the machine tool when receiving a loading and unloading request to obtain the corresponding judgment result, or the data collection server may also detect whether there is a material on the machine tool when receiving a loading and unloading request. When requesting materials, the judgment result sent by the machine tool is obtained, and there is no restriction on this.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the data collection server 101 is also configured to: if the judgment result indicates that there is material on the machine tool, generate and send a blanking instruction to the programmable logic controller; if the judgment result indicates that there is no material on the machine tool, Then generate and send loading instructions to the programmable logic controller.

Among them, the unloading instruction can be used to trigger the unloading operation, and the loading instruction can be used to trigger the loading operation.

The programmable logic controller 102 is used to receive loading and unloading instructions and control the loading and unloading robot based on the loading and unloading instructions. When the loading and unloading robot is controlled, it drives the loading and unloading device to perform loading and unloading actions on the machine tool.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the programmable logic controller 102 is also used to: when receiving the unloading instruction, control the loading and unloading robot to perform unloading action on the machine tool based on the unloading instruction; when receiving the loading instruction , based on the loading instructions, the loading and unloading robot is controlled to instruct the machine tool to load the materials.

In this disclosed embodiment, the data collection server 101 is also used to: generate and send material processing instructions to the machine tool when it detects that the machine tool has completed loading.

Among them, material processing instructions can be used to trigger the machine tool to process the material.

In this disclosed embodiment, the machine tool 103 is also used to: receive material processing instructions sent by the data collection server, and process the materials on the machine tool based on the material processing instructions, so as to realize a series of automated operation processes of loading and processing.

In this disclosed embodiment, after the material processing is completed, the machine tool 103 can also generate and send a material processing completion message to the data collection server. After receiving the material processing completion information, the data collection server can generate and send the material processing completion message to the programmable logic controller 102 Send a loading and unloading instruction, and after receiving the loading and unloading instruction, the programmable logic controller 102 can control the loading and unloading robot. When the loading and unloading robot is controlled, it can drive the loading and unloading device to take away the processed materials on the machine tool.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the machine tool 103 is also used to: generate and send first fault indication information to the data collection server when the first fault event is detected, where the first fault indication information is used to indicate the occurrence of the machine tool. The first fault event; and/or send machine tool operating data to the data collection server.

Among them, the first failure event refers to the event that the machine tool cannot operate normally due to equipment failure, communication failure, power failure, etc.

The first fault indication information is used to indicate that the first fault event occurs in the machine tool.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the machine tool 103 may generate and send the first fault indication information to the data collection server when detecting the occurrence of the first fault event.

Alternatively, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the data collection server may also monitor the operation process of the machine tool, and determine that the first fault event occurs in the machine tool when it detects that the machine tool cannot operate normally.

Among them, the machine tool can have relevant operating data during operation. This operating data can be called machine tool operating data. The machine tool operating data can be the startup status, operating status and related operating parameters of the machine tool. There is no limit to this. .

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the machine tool operating data generated in real time can be reported to the data collection server during the operation of the machine tool, or the data collection server can also monitor the operating status of the machine tool in real time. , to obtain the machine tool operating data, there is no restriction on this.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the programmable logic controller 102 is further configured to: receive the second fault indication information sent by the loading and unloading robot, and/or the robot operation data, where the second fault indication information is used to indicate that the loading and unloading robot has occurred the first Second fault event; sending second fault indication information and/or robot operation data to the data collection server.

Among them, the second failure event refers to the event that the machine tool cannot operate normally due to equipment failure, communication failure, power failure, etc. of the loading and unloading robot.

The second fault indication information is used to indicate that a second fault event occurs on the loading and unloading robot.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the loading and unloading robot 104 may generate and send the second fault indication information to the programmable logic controller 102 when detecting the occurrence of the second fault event. 102 After receiving the second fault indication information, the second fault indication information may be sent to the data collection server.

The loading and unloading robot 104 may have relevant operating data during operation. The operating data may be called robot operating data. The robot operating data may include the startup status, operating status and related operating parameters of the loading and unloading robot. There are no restrictions on this.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the robot operation data generated in real time can be reported to the programmable logic controller by the loading and unloading robot during operation, or the programmable logic controller can also monitor the loading and unloading robot. The operating status of the loading and unloading robot can be monitored in real time to obtain the robot operating data of the loading and unloading robot. There is no restriction on this.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the machine tool loading and unloading system 10 further includes: a display device 106 .

Optionally, in some embodiments, the data collection server 101 is also configured to receive the first fault indication information sent by the machine tool and/or the machine tool operating data, and receive the second fault indication information sent by the programmable logic controller, and/or robot operation data, and sends the first fault indication information, and/or machine tool operation data, and/or the second fault indication information, and/or robot operation data to the display device 106 .

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the display device 106 is also used to: display the first fault indication information, and/or the machine tool operating data, and/or the second fault indication information, and/or the robot operating data, thereby facilitating the user to learn The first fault indication information, and/or the machine tool operating data, and/or the second fault indication information, and/or the robot operating data, can facilitate maintenance work and subsequent production work.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the machine tool loading and unloading system includes: a data acquisition server, a programmable logic controller, a machine tool, a loading and unloading robot, and a loading and unloading device. The data acquisition server communicates with the programming logic controller and the machine tool respectively, and the programmable logic controller The server communicates with the machine tool, robot and loading and unloading device respectively. The data collection server is used to determine whether there is material on the machine tool based on the loading and unloading instructions when receiving the loading and unloading request to obtain the judgment result, and generate based on the judgment result. and sends loading and unloading instructions to the programmable logic controller; the programmable logic controller is used to receive loading and unloading instructions, and control the loading and unloading robot based on the loading and unloading instructions. When the loading and unloading robot is controlled, it drives the loading and unloading device to execute the machine tool Loading and unloading action. Through the present disclosure, a matching automated loading and unloading solution can be set up for the machine tool, thereby improving work efficiency and reducing labor costs.

In order to implement the above embodiments, the present disclosure also proposes an electronic device, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device proposed by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The electronic device 20 includes: the machine tool loading and unloading system of the above embodiments. 10.

3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary electronic device suitable for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure. The electronic device shown in FIG. 3 is only an example and should not impose any limitations on the functions and scope of use of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

As shown in Figure 3, the electronic device takes the form of a general computing device. The components of the electronic device may include, but are not limited to: one or more processors or processing units 16, system memory 28, and a bus 19 connecting different system components (including system memory 28 and processing unit 16). Bus 19 represents one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, a graphics acceleration port, a processor, or a local bus using any of a variety of bus structures. For example, these architectures include, but are not limited to, the Industry Standard Architecture (IndustryStandard Architecture; hereinafter referred to as: ISA) bus, the Micro Channel Architecture (Micro Channel Architecture; hereinafter referred to as: MAC) bus, the enhanced ISA bus, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VideoElectronics Standards Association; hereinafter referred to as: VESA) local bus and peripheral component interconnection (Hereinafter referred to as: PCI) bus.

Electronic devices typically include a variety of computer system readable media. These media can be any available media that can be accessed by an electronic device, including volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media.

The memory 28 may include computer system-readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as random access memory (Random Access Memory; hereinafter referred to as: RAM) 30 and/or cache memory 32 . Electronic devices may further include other removable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storage media. By way of example only, storage system 34 may be used to read and write to non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media (not shown in Figure 3, commonly referred to as a "hard drive").

Although not shown in FIG. 3, a disk drive may be provided for reading and writing to removable non-volatile disks (e.g., "floppy disks"), and for reading and writing removable non-volatile optical disks (e.g., compact discs). Disc Read OnlyMemory (hereinafter referred to as: CD-ROM), Digital Video Disc Read OnlyMemory (hereinafter referred to as: DVD-ROM) or other optical media). In these cases, each drive may be connected to bus 19 via one or more data media interfaces. Memory 28 may include at least one program product having a set (eg, at least one) of program modules configured to perform the functions of embodiments of the present disclosure.

A program/utility 40 having a set of (at least one) program modules 42, including but not limited to an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, may be stored, for example, in memory 28 , each of these examples or some combination may include the implementation of a network environment. Program modules 42 generally perform functions and/or methods in the embodiments described in this disclosure.

The electronic device may also communicate with one or more external devices 14 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, display 24, etc.), with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the electronic device, and/or with one or more devices that enable the user to interact with the electronic device. An electronic device can communicate with any device (eg, network card, modem, etc.) that communicates with one or more other computing devices. This communication may occur through input/output (I/O) interface 22. Moreover, the electronic device can also communicate with one or more networks (such as a local area network (Local Area Network; hereinafter referred to as: LAN), a wide area network (hereinafter referred to as: WAN) and/or a public network, such as the Internet) through the network adapter 20 communication. As shown, network adapter 20 communicates with other modules of the electronic device via bus 19. It will be understood that, although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with the electronic device, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and Data backup storage system, etc.

The processing unit 16 executes programs stored in the system memory 28 to perform various functional applications and data processing, for example, implementing the machine tool loading and unloading system method mentioned in the previous embodiment.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. The present disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure that follow the general principles of the disclosure and include common common sense or customary technical ways in the technical field that are not disclosed in the disclosure. . It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise structures described above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

It should be noted that in the description of the present disclosure, the terms "first", "second", etc. are only used for descriptive purposes and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance. Furthermore, in the description of the present disclosure, "plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

Any process or method descriptions in flowcharts or otherwise described herein may be understood to represent modules, segments, or portions of code that include one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical functions or steps of the process. , and the scope of the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure includes additional implementations in which functions may be performed out of the order shown or discussed, including in a substantially simultaneous manner or in the reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, which shall It should be understood by those skilled in the art to which embodiments of the present disclosure belong.

It should be understood that various parts of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or combinations thereof. In the above embodiments, various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in a memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. For example, if it is implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, it can be implemented by any one or a combination of the following technologies known in the art: a logic gate circuit with a logic gate circuit for implementing a logic function on a data signal. Discrete logic circuits, application specific integrated circuits with suitable combinational logic gates, programmable gate arrays (PGA), field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), etc.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the steps involved in implementing the methods of the above embodiments can be completed by instructing relevant hardware through a program. The program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When executed, one of the steps of the method embodiment or a combination thereof is included.

In addition, each functional unit in various embodiments of the present disclosure may be integrated into one processing module, each unit may exist physically alone, or two or more units may be integrated into one module. The above integrated modules can be implemented in the form of hardware or software function modules. If the integrated module is implemented in the form of a software function module and sold or used as an independent product, it can also be stored in a computer-readable storage medium.

The storage media mentioned above can be read-only memory, magnetic disks or optical disks, etc.

In the description of this specification, reference to the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "specific examples," or "some examples" or the like means that specific features are described in connection with the embodiment or example. , structures, materials, or features are included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the specific features, structures, materials or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

Although the embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and described above, it can be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are illustrative and should not be construed as limitations of the present disclosure. Those of ordinary skill in the art can make modifications to the above-mentioned embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure. The embodiments are subject to changes, modifications, substitutions and variations.

Claims (10)

1. A machine tool loading and unloading system, the system comprising: the device comprises a data acquisition server, a programmable logic controller, a machine tool, a loading and unloading robot and a loading and unloading device, wherein the data acquisition server is respectively communicated with the programmable logic controller and the machine tool, the programmable logic controller is communicated with the loading and unloading device,

the data acquisition server is used for judging whether materials exist on the machine tool or not based on the feeding and discharging requests when receiving the feeding and discharging requests so as to obtain a judging result, and generating and sending feeding and discharging instructions to the programmable logic controller based on the judging result;

the programmable logic controller is used for receiving the feeding and discharging instructions and controlling the feeding and discharging robot based on the feeding and discharging instructions, wherein the feeding and discharging robot is controlled to drive the feeding and discharging device to execute feeding and discharging actions on the machine tool.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data acquisition server is further configured to:

if the judging result indicates that the machine tool has materials, generating and sending a blanking instruction to the programmable logic controller;

and if the judging result indicates that no material exists on the machine tool, generating and sending a feeding instruction to the programmable logic controller.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the programmable logic controller is further to:

if the blanking instruction is received, controlling the feeding and blanking robot to execute a blanking action on the machine tool based on the blanking instruction;

and if the feeding instruction is received, controlling the feeding and discharging robot to indicate the feeding action to the machine tool based on the feeding instruction.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data acquisition server is further configured to:

and when the feeding of the machine tool is monitored to be completed, generating and sending a material processing instruction to the machine tool.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the machine tool is further configured to:

and receiving the material processing instruction sent by the data acquisition server, and processing the material on the machine tool based on the material processing instruction.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the machine tool is further configured to:

generating and sending first fault indication information to the data acquisition server under the condition that a first fault event is monitored, wherein the first fault indication information is used for indicating the machine tool to generate the first fault event; and/or

And sending machine tool operation data to the data acquisition server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the programmable logic controller is further to:

receiving second fault indication information and/or robot operation data sent by the feeding and discharging robot, wherein the second fault indication information is used for indicating the feeding and discharging robot to generate a second fault event;

and sending the second fault indication information and/or the robot operation data to the data acquisition server.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the system further comprises: a display device; wherein, the data acquisition server is further used for:

receiving the first fault indication information and/or the machine tool operation data sent by the machine tool, and receiving the second fault indication information and/or the robot operation data sent by the programmable logic controller;

and sending the first fault indication information and/or the machine tool operation data and/or the second fault indication information and/or the robot operation data to the display device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the display device is further configured to:

displaying the first fault indication information and/or the machine tool operation data and/or the second fault indication information and/or the robot operation data.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a machine tool loading and unloading system as defined in any one of claims 1 to 9.