EP1547952A1 - Dispositif de commande pour assembler un produit flexible - Google Patents

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EP1547952A1
EP1547952A1 EP04405760A EP04405760A EP1547952A1 EP 1547952 A1 EP1547952 A1 EP 1547952A1 EP 04405760 A EP04405760 A EP 04405760A EP 04405760 A EP04405760 A EP 04405760A EP 1547952 A1 EP1547952 A1 EP 1547952A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/437—Repairing a faulty collection due to, e.g. misfeed, multiplefeed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/50—Occurence
    • B65H2511/52—Defective operating conditions
    • B65H2511/529—Defective operating conditions number thereof, frequency of occurrence

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  • a collection consists of the following individual products: a magazine, several advertising brochures, one flat packaged toy insert and an individualized address sheet.
  • the others Processing is for example a foliation of the collections.
  • the individual products or partial products are typically flexible, flat and / or thin, and are fed by associated feeding means into a collator and it is there, for example, by stacking the individual products on a clocked product stream a collection formed.
  • a state of Technique is a flawless working of the supply of great importance, so that all collections have the correct composition, i. all required partial products.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a way around the Production of collections as flexible and accurate as possible Adjust quality requirements. It should also the technical effort, and An additional work effort optimally adapted to the quality requirements be.
  • This task is solved by a method, a computer program system and a Control device for controlling a device for collating flexible individual products with the characteristics of the corresponding independent Claims.
  • a collator in which supplied from For each type of individual product, a stream of collections flows and flows a downstream downstream processing is fed.
  • a collection each consists of a predetermined amount of individual products of different types, each usually a copy of a type in the Collection is included. This will be faulty collections, in which There is a feed error with respect to one or more individual products how to treat flawless collections. They are preferably only then one Error handling supplied when a proportion of faulty collections a exceeds certain reference mass.
  • the invention has the advantage that it allows a given maximum Proportion of faulty collections or feed errors in advance determine, and if necessary, to change during operation. It can with regard to each individual product type or even specific error combinations maximum error rate or a maximum error rate are guaranteed.
  • Another advantage is that this fraction of error can be fully exploited, whereby the net output of the plant is maximized. Only if the actual Fault rate has reached the predetermined level, finds for faulty collections an error handling takes place. From that point on, only actually will flawless collections also treated like flawless.
  • the further processing corresponds to a desired normal operation and is for example, a foil, stapling, binding, stacking, strapping or other Packaging.
  • the error handling causes a faulty collection immediately after collecting or at another point in further processing is processed separately.
  • a collection can be marked. This can physically done by affixing a mark, or computationally by For example, a data record associated with the collection, a Having information regarding one or more feed errors of the collection. It may also be downstream after a detected feed error Extraction be triggered with a corresponding delay.
  • the separate processing is preferably a discharge and / or a Complete faulty collections and / or a return of faulty Collections into the collating apparatus.
  • faulty collections are discharged into a slower running conveyor, manually supplemented respectively corrected and then back into the main stream introduced.
  • it will be ejected collections at the beginning of Gathering machine and in this automatically a missing Single product added.
  • it is registered in a control system, where and in which Composition is every collection, and the plant accordingly controlled.
  • rejected collections can return to theirs Single products disassembled and these individual products into a store of the respective supply means are introduced.
  • the share is, if one, one absolute number of errors in the feeder or downstream Post-processing collections, or a relative error count, i.e. based on a total number of generated or forwarded collections. It is preferably a measure of a measured number of errors, or an actual error measure, according to a continuous determined during production Number of defective individual products, calculated continuously and with one predetermined reference mass compared.
  • This first variant causes errors in a mediocre working Distribute the machine over a production run or order. With good running Machine can build up a stock of allowable errors, possibly against the End of production allows a high number of close successive errors.
  • the actual error pass is a Number of collections considered faultless with a feed error with respect to a particular type of individual product
  • the reference measure is one constant number of permissible errors. This causes at the beginning of a Production run a high number of errors is allowed. This can be done by Be an advantage, since at the beginning of the machines may not run optimally, and Nevertheless, a high production capacity is possible. Whether the accumulation of errors too Starting production is a disadvantage or can be tolerated depends on the nature of the product.
  • a modification of the second preferred variant becomes a reference Jess specified with respect to a subset of a total order quantity and the actual error metric also adds up only for a subset. For example if errors in a running time window are counted ("moving average"), or an error counter for the number of defective copies periodically becomes zero set, which is a sequence of time windows, each with a separate error count equivalent. This causes faulty collections evenly over the entire order quantity to be distributed.
  • a further preferred variant of the invention are not only errors with regard to individual individual product types independent of others Single product types captured and used to control the plant, but it Predefined, combined errors are also recorded.
  • a higher-level controller records the error messages displayed by the individual delivery means relating to each collection. If one impermissible combination of faulty individual products occurs, the Collection removed.
  • This type of definition and capture of combined Errors can be related to one of the different types of error analysis Operating mode, reference mass, etc. are connected.
  • a Single product type is supplied alternately by two feeders ("split"), and / or in the case of a fault of a first supply means, a downstream one second feed means for the same single product type "backup". from From the point of view of the inventive method, the two feed means can be considered to be one single delivery means are considered.
  • the invention is also a Production with individualized collections applicable.
  • the predetermined amount of individual products of different types is thus for each collection individually predetermined and variable.
  • the only requirement is that for at least a single product type a certain number of errors is allowed. Only if or as long as an actual number of errors detected is a threshold exceeds, an error handling or correction is activated respectively allows separate processing.
  • the control device preferably has storage means with stored therein Computer program code means which describe a computer program, and data processing means for executing the computer program, the Execution of the computer program for carrying out the method according to Invention leads.
  • FIG. 1 shows schematically a structure of a device for collating with devices connected thereto.
  • the collecting means 4 is a conveyor for collections, such as a drum or a linear system such as a gathering chain or collection line 4, which are formed by gathering, inserting, collecting, etc.
  • the feeders 7 are arranged to introduce individual products into the collecting means 4 and have, among other things each sensors with associated evaluation means for error detection 8, in detail denoted by 8.1 to 8.5.
  • Results of the error detections 8 can be transmitted to a control unit 9 via communication links 91, for example a field bus. This transmission can be done directly or via a local control device of the respective feed device 7.
  • the control unit 9 is set up, inter alia, for controlling 92 of the discharge 5, and optionally also for controlling 93 of the feeders 7. This activation 93 can be done physically via the same fieldbus as the transmission of the error detection.
  • the control unit 9 has a graphical user interface 94 for inputting operating parameters and for displaying and monitoring characteristic values of the control during a production run.
  • One or more graphical user interfaces 94 are implemented at an operating device of the control unit 9 or in a remote computer.
  • the control unit may be internally structured and have a plurality of spatially distributed units 95, 96.
  • the feeders 7 By means of the feeders 7 are individual products 10, with reference to the respective feeding device 7.1, ... 7.5 respectively denoted by 10.1, .. 10.5, on the Collection means 4 merged into collections 20.
  • the Collection means 4 by an upstream supply of a Basic product or main product 2, for example, a printing press, already a first individual product 10.0 supplied.
  • the finished collections will be 20 downstream to a further processing 3, for example a foliation, Packaging, plug-in device etc. delivered.
  • the discharge 5 leads discharged products or collections 20 to a separate processing 6, in which the collections 20, for example manually replenished or disassembled again into individual products 10.
  • Excavated collections 20 are non-tolerated faulty collections, ie those that are considered “incorrect”.
  • the further processing 3 fed are tolerated defective collection, so are considered “correct” even if they are faulty.
  • the invention also an error treatment in the course of further processing. 3 to step.
  • FIG. 1 shows by way of example for each of the feed devices 7 an associated indication of a tolerated percentage of error in percent.
  • the first single product type 10.1 from the first feeder 7.1 an error rate of 3% is specified.
  • the second and third feeders 7.2, 7.3 provide the same single product type and operate in split and / or backup mode.
  • a common error proportion of 0% is specified, ie no errors are tolerated.
  • No value is specified for the fourth individual product type 10.4, ie the number of errors is either only detected or even the acquisition is switched off.
  • Figures 2 to 6 show to explain the inventive method different courses of characteristic variables of the control at the monitoring stage 2.
  • Figure 2 shows , for a particular feeder 7 for a single product type the course of different counters over the time t and a clock sequence k along the horizontal Axis.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the error analysis with an absolute error threshold rising during production.
  • the value of the individual product counter Ze is plotted.
  • an absolute threshold value 11 that is to say a threshold value which relates to an absolute number of errors Zf, runs according to the permissible error component.
  • a course for an error component or an error rate of 2% with respect to Ze is shown.
  • the threshold value 11 is adjusted in proportion to Ze.
  • the error counter Zf is below the threshold 11
  • collections 20 with defective individual products 10 are not rejected.
  • Zf exceeds the threshold 11
  • such collections 20 are discharged. With rising Ze Zf will again fall below the threshold and will be switched back to the second mode. This switching between the second and third modes can be done several times during production.
  • the threshold proportional to the job counter Za instead of the single product counter Ze defined. If errors are average for the individual product 10, the distribution is Error evenly on the whole order. If the number of errors is low at the beginning is, builds up towards the end of production a large permissible "defect stock", the u.U. can be exploited in one piece.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the error analysis for a constant threshold during production.
  • the absolute threshold value 11 is a maximum permissible number of faulty collections tolerated for the entire production run or order.
  • the second mode is started and the error counter Zf is tracked.
  • the constant threshold 11 is switched to the third mode and this third mode for the rest of the production maintained.
  • the production can be interrupted, after which the machines are readjusted and then the production is restarted.
  • the absolute threshold value 11 can be specified by a user default as an absolute default for the error counter Zf.
  • the absolute threshold 11 can also from a user default for a maximum error share automatically be calculated. For example, a percentage of the Order size, or a percentage of a number of specimens of the individual product 10, which during a part of a Production run must be delivered.
  • Figure 5 illustrates the error analysis for a constant during production threshold with periodic reset of the absolute error number Zf respectively of the corresponding counter to zero.
  • An order is considered to consist of several sections, each with a partial copy number, and each section is assigned a maximum number of errors. This results in a stepwise progression of the absolute threshold value 11.
  • the error counter Zf is zeroed and changed to the second operating mode, if this is not already activated. If the error counter Zf exceeds the absolute threshold value 11, the system switches to the third operating mode for the remainder of the section. As a result, the number of errors in each section is limited to the corresponding predetermined maximum number of errors.
  • the maximum number of errors can thus vary over the different sections of a Order can be selectively specified. It can be the same for all sections (FIG. 5a), or it can decrease monotonically (FIG. 5b), or else it varies freely be (Figure 5c).
  • the variant according to Figure 5b allows a higher, but controlled fraction of error at the start of production.
  • the variant according to Figure 5c allows to produce individual sequences of sections, each with adapted quality. This is expedient, for example, if one of the feeders 7 a Product change takes place during a production run.
  • Figure 7 shows an example of a graphical output of characteristic values of the controller.
  • the number of errors Zf, a maximum number of errors Zfmax permissible for the whole production and the progress of the individual product counter Ze or the order counter Za relative to the predetermined number of individual products Zemax or of the order Zamax are displayed for each of the feeders.
  • an exemplary display for two designated by A and B of several feeders 7 is shown schematically.
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