EP2651798A1 - Apparatus and method for controlling the transportation and the handling of sheet-like products - Google Patents
Apparatus and method for controlling the transportation and the handling of sheet-like productsInfo
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- EP2651798A1 EP2651798A1 EP11791523.1A EP11791523A EP2651798A1 EP 2651798 A1 EP2651798 A1 EP 2651798A1 EP 11791523 A EP11791523 A EP 11791523A EP 2651798 A1 EP2651798 A1 EP 2651798A1
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- products
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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
- B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
- B65H7/02—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
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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
- B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
- B65H29/02—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the articles
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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
- B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
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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
- B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
- B65H7/20—Controlling associated apparatus
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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
- B65H9/00—Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor
- B65H9/12—Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor carried by article grippers
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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
- B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
- B65H2511/40—Identification
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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
- B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
- B65H2513/50—Timing
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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
- B65H2557/00—Means for control not provided for in groups B65H2551/00 - B65H2555/00
- B65H2557/10—Means for control not provided for in groups B65H2551/00 - B65H2555/00 for signal transmission
- B65H2557/12—Network
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring and / or control of the transport and / or processing of a variety of products, preferably for transport and processing of sheet products, in particular of printed products, such as newspapers or magazines, according to the preamble of Claims 1 and 15.
- the transport device In the further processing of printed products, such as newspapers, magazines, catalogs, leaflets and the same, or other flat, flexible products they are conveyed by a transport device along loading and / or processing plants and thereby from various processing and processing stations Plant completed.
- the transport device generally comprises endless circulating conveyor belts or chains, on which grippers or clamps are provided, which each grip at least one product and convey along the system.
- the products are processed at the processing stations by, for example, folding, folding, stapling, loading, inserting, gluing, cutting, labeling, sorting, collecting, packaging or packaging, whereby products are transported, buffered, singulated or diverted at high speed between the individual stations , With such systems and transport devices can reach outputs of 40,000 to 80,000 copies per hour.
- Such a plant is known for example from WO 2007/012206 AI.
- the monitoring and control of the transport device and the individual processing stations is computer-assisted, whereby the individual products or the grippers which grasp a product can be marked so that an individualization of a product or gripper is achieved.
- the marking can be read by means of suitable reading devices in real time, so that it is known at all times, which product is located and the system can be controlled accordingly.
- Such a monitoring method is described, for example, in WO 2008/144945 A2.
- each gripper is assigned an identity address.
- the chain length of a section should be so short in relation to the elasticity of the chain that variations in the chain length of each section compared to the distance of the gripper to each other can be neglected.
- measurement errors in the determination of a gripper can be reduced, resulting due to a change in length, for example, by thermal expansion of the chain, wear of the chain or length tolerances.
- the beginning of a section is determined by the coding by means of a Godesensors.
- the number of grippers is counted by means of a position sensor until a desired gripper has been determined.
- the determination of the sections and the gripper takes place in real time with the timing of the transport chain.
- each product has a reference or is associated with a particular reference. It is a transport device for transporting the plurality of products, usually at least one processing or processing device, a recognition device at least for receiving references of the products and for transmitting messages that belong to the references, and at least one processing unit for processing the messages intended.
- the products are preferably flat products.
- at least one delay device which is suitable for grouping together several messages from a plurality of references of several products into a message packet, and a transmission medium are provided, via which the message is transmitted. packet is sent to the processing unit after a delay time has elapsed.
- a transmission medium for example, a bus system can be used, but other topologies are suitable.
- the plant and method according to the present invention are particularly suitable for the production and further processing of printed products, as already described.
- the transport device As a reference for a particular product, for example, a marker, a tag, a code, but also a specific holding means for holding the product on the transport device, such as a gripper or a clamp, or provided on the gripper marker serve. It is essential that the respective product with the reference can be clearly identified and / or localized.
- the plurality of products is successively conveyed by the transport device, preferably spaced apart from one another, along a transport direction to or past the at least one processing device.
- the transport device preferably has an endless transport chain, on which holding means for releasably holding the products are arranged or can be arranged, for example in the form of grippers or clamps.
- the individual grippers are provided at short distances from each other along the transport chain and the transport chain is moved at a definable speed, which determines the tact for handling and processing of the products along the system.
- the transport device has one or more one- or two-sided conveyor belts, wherein the conveyed with the conveyor belt or the conveyor belts products are also provided with a clock.
- the plurality of products is passed by the transport device to at least one recognition device which receives references to these products and transmits to the processing unit a message associated with the respective reference.
- the message preferably contains information about the identity and the exact position of the referenced product and can also be a request for information about this Product and request a response, for example in the form of a response, from the processing unit.
- the feedback may include, for example, information about the orientation of a product in the gripper, an individual label, or the like.
- the reference is also associated with further information, such as information for summarizing particular products into containers or units with a new cycle, or information for resorting products within a new cycle or status information, such as information on blocked or blocked processing devices.
- a message packet is combined into several messages of references of the products during a delay time.
- the number of messages in a message packet can be different. For example, between 5 and 100 messages can be summarized. It is also not necessary to continuously collect messages over the entire duration of the delay time. It is essential that a message packet in the transmission medium represents a unit and can be transmitted as such by him.
- the duration of the delay time is preferably not determined by the number of messages to be collected, or at least not solely thereof.
- the length of the delay time can be determined, for example, depending on the working conditions in the transport device or the processing device.
- the message packet is transmitted to the processing unit via the transmission medium after the delay time has expired.
- the processing unit it is also possible to combine a plurality of feedback messages requested by the processing unit by means of a message packet with regard to information about the several, preferably planar, products as a feedback packet.
- Each feedback is then assigned a specific message from the message packet.
- the feedback packet can be transmitted to the detection device after the expiration of a further delay time from the processing unit. This feedback delay time must do not correspond to the message delay time with which the message packets are delayed.
- the method and system for transporting and processing a plurality of products preferably sheet products, such as newspapers, periodicals, brochures, catalogs and other printed products
- the transmission of information from the products and for the products are awaited until data traffic within the transmission medium permits proper transmission. It can be waited by sending a message packet or a feedback packet to rest in the transmission medium. The packets can then be transmitted without interference to the processing unit and back and thereby disturb any existing data traffic in the transmission medium.
- the safety and reliability in the control of the transport device or the processing devices can be optimized, the transport device can operate at a high clock frequency and the processing of the products on the transport device can be performed exactly.
- the processing devices of the installation can be, for example, folding, folding, cutting or binding stations for processing individual or several paper sheets or layers of a product, for labeling or loading stations, for separating or separating stations for finished products or to act as bundling and packing stations. Such stations require information about the identity of the product and its exact location, for example, to attach a correct label or plug it in correctly.
- the recognition device a simple reading device having a transmitting function such as conventional optical or capacitive sensors can be used.
- the recognition device is used in the sense of a transfer unit and comprises, for example, a reading and writing device and can send the message packets to the processing unit and receive the feedback packets from the latter.
- the processing device may then be controlled, for example, in response to information from the feedback packets. It is advantageous if each detection device of a processing device of the production plant for processing - preferably flat - associated with products, usually upstream. In principle, however, it is conceivable that a recognition device is responsible for a plurality of - preferably downstream downstream - processing devices.
- the delay device can be designed as a buffer in which a plurality of messages can be buffered and summarized by the references of the products. After a defined time, the buffer sends the message packet to the processing unit.
- a server can be provided, which provides services for monitoring and controlling the production facility.
- the server forms the interface between the transport device, which determines the clock frequency of the production plant pretends, and the individual processing devices that need to be tuned to the timing of the transport device.
- the server is connected by means of the transmission medium with the individual processing devices, so that all processing devices can use a common transmission medium.
- no communication between the individual processing devices is required. This can further reduce the amount of traffic in the transmission medium.
- the processing unit maintains a total clock image of all products conveyed by the transport device, from which the exact position in the transport device and the individual identity of a product can be seen.
- the total clock image can be continuously updated by the information of the message packets.
- the individual message packets are transmitted cyclically to the processing unit and the delay time corresponds to a defined, adjustable time interval.
- Different recognition devices can choose different time intervals, for example, depending on the type of processing device to which they are assigned.
- the time interval can be set according to preset parameters.
- a cyclic delay time is chosen, for example, for standard or routine message packets. Typically, delay times between 5 and 3000 milliseconds (msec), preferably between 100 and 300 milliseconds, more preferably between 150 and 250 milliseconds, are selected for this purpose in accordance with the predefined speed of the transport device.
- the message packets can be transmitted acyclically.
- the delay time can correspond to the time span in the transmission medium between the at least one recognition device and the processing unit rest in the transmission traffic, ie until no messages or message packets and / or feedback or feedback packets are currently transmitted via the medium be or still stand.
- Such a delay time enables the fastest possible transmission of a message packet to the processing unit or a feedback packet back to the recognition device and is therefore suitable for requests with high priority, for example, if irregularities in the transport of the products are detected by a recognition device.
- Such delay times are generally between 5 and 50 milliseconds, more preferably between 8 and 15 milliseconds.
- the delay time according to the present invention can therefore be between 5 and 3000 milliseconds, preferably between 5 and 300 milliseconds, depending on which transmission variant is used.
- a transmission clock for the transmission of message packets may be independent of a clock of the clocked promoted products, respectively, that a transmission clock frequency for the transmission of message or feedback packets from a clock frequency of subsidized, preferably flat, products may be independent, and essentially depends on the traffic in the transmission medium.
- the frequency of the transmission clock is usually lower than the clock frequency of the transport device, with which the products, or their grippers, are promoted, and with which the references are recorded, or the recording frequency of references is faster than a transmission clock frequency of messages - or feedback packages.
- the retransmission delay time for the transmission of feedback packets can be adapted to the variant of the transmission of the message packets.
- the transmission of a feedback packet is delayed at least until a last requested feedback packet has been transmitted. This means that the requests from the message package are answered in the order they are received.
- a recognition device it is therefore not possible for a second message packet sent after a first message packet to receive the second feedback packet before the first reply packet. enter into a package of support. This also prevents feedback packets from being sent to an incorrect recognition device.
- the transmission of the feedback packets is not in chronological order, that is not in the order of their receipt.
- a memory or buffer is preferably provided in the processing unit.
- a copy of the transmitted message packet is stored in the recognition device or an associated storage unit.
- its individual feedback messages are assigned to the individual messages according to the message packet copy.
- the individual responses from the feedback packet may be associated with the respective requests associated with a particular gripper. This allows the information about each gripper to be updated quickly and reliably.
- a recognition device for a group of products, or the associated grippers, which are to be processed in a processing device may carry a local clock image according to the data and information from the references of the products of this group, such as the actual position or the actual gripper Condition of a product.
- this actual data and information of the local clock image is transmitted to the processing unit, which compares it with the overall clock image and sends back necessary response data to the recognition device or makes adjustments to the total clock image.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a method for monitoring and / or
- Fig. 2 is a diagram showing a number of transmitted per time
- FIG. 1 the essential units of a system for monitoring and / or controlling a transport and / or processing of a plurality of preferably sheet-like products are shown, which are necessary for carrying out a method according to the present invention.
- Other essential components of the system are known from the prior art in the field of conveyor technology for particular sheet products and are therefore not shown for reasons of clarity.
- Such a facility for transportation and for working or processing flat products, such as newspapers, magazines, etc. is known for example from WO 2008/144945 A2 or WO 2007/012206 AI the applicant, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated in full.
- the system thus comprises a transport device, for example with an endlessly circulating conveyor chain, on which a plurality of grippers or clamps are arranged at a distance from one another, on each of which a flat product, for example a newspaper, is provided.
- the transport device transports the product along a transport direction past two processing devices, to each of which a recognition device 1 or V is assigned.
- the recognition devices 1 and V are in contact by means of a transmission medium 2 with a processing unit, for example a server 3.
- the grippers are each provided with a reference 4, which serves for the individualization of a product and can be read by a recognition device 1, 1 '.
- the recognition devices 1 and V each comprise a delay device, for example in the form of a buffer 5, in which messages from the gripper references 4 can be collected and combined to form a message packet 6 and stored.
- an overall clock image of the individual products located in the transport device is guided.
- the cycle corresponds to the 1 transport stroke 7 according to the transport speed of the transport device, with which the reference identifier.
- the cesame clock image stores information about the individual products. For example, it is noted which manufacturing station has delivered a product to the transport device (feeder node) or from which processing device a gripper, or a product, was last manipulated (access node). Further information includes: gripper condition, product quality or gripper contents (determining whether and how a product is present in a gripper), offset of a product in a gripper, gripping mode (for example, catching a newspaper on a bunch or flower), positioning a head of the gripper Product (right or left or the like).
- the processing unit 3 continuously allocates the pace ID for each product, or each gripper, a continuous code. This can be used to check the transmission, or inaccuracies or distortions in the transmission (so-called “electronic jitter” is independent of the mechanical "jitter") or for splitting or joining. Splitting is understood to mean the splitting of a product stream into a plurality of streams, as is done, for example, for feeding a plurality of stacking devices. By means of joining, for example, several products can be placed in one gripper.
- the information in the overall cycle image can be updated by information from the product messages.
- a local clock image 8 of a group of products is led, which are currently located on the processing device of the recognition device and are waiting there for processing.
- the local clock image is compared with the overall clock image and supplemented with additional information that is relevant to the respective processing device, as described below.
- the grippers with the references 4 are guided by the transport device to the recognition device 1 and V.
- the further procedure will be described by way of example with reference to the recognition device 1.
- the recognition device 1 receives the reference or the information from the reference. With each clock, a reference is received, which is provided in the form of a message for the processing unit 3.
- the message contains, for example, information about an absolute gripper number (CripID) and about a position in the local clock image 8.
- the individual messages are combined in the buffer 5, or in a TX unit of the buffer, into a message packet 6 and stored over a predetermined delay time 9.
- the delay time 9 is, as described above, for example, 200 msec.
- the messages are preferably collected in a raw form.
- the raw form can also contain an lnvoke-ld for the assignment of a feedback message and a position in the local clock image where this feedback message is to be entered.
- message packets 6 of the recognition devices are received, where they are preferably processed and answered in series. It uses information from the messages to update the overall cycle image and generates feedback to answer the requests from the individual messages and instructions for processing the products.
- the feedbacks are summarized as feedback packet 10.
- the acknowledgment packet 10 after a further delay time, the retransmission delay time, via the transmission medium 2 to the RX Unit of the buffer sent.
- the response delay time is preferably acyclic.
- the message packets 6 from different recognition devices 1, V, etc. are preferably answered according to the order of their arrival at the processing unit 3.
- the feedback packet 10 is transmitted as soon as the last previous feedback packet is sent and there is silence in the transmission medium, so that there is room for the feedback packet 10.
- the feedback packet 10 is compared with the copy of the message packet 6 and the individual messages associated with the associated feedback.
- the information from the feedback is supplemented in the local clock image, thus updating the local clock image.
- the processing device to which the recognition device 1 belongs may, according to the updated local clock image and further information from the feedback packet 10, process the products of the group of grippers. For example, a fold can be positioned exactly, a supplement can be inserted into a product, or a specific label can be applied.
- a message or a message packet can also be transmitted acyclically, for example as soon as possible, and thus be given priority.
- a message may be required, for example, in emergencies, for example for a quick stop of the transport device or for switching off a processing device.
- Such messages are sent prioritized relative to the cyclic message packets, preferably when there is no longer any feedback from a last message. Usually this can be done after about 10msec.
- several priority messages can be combined into a priortary message packet.
- urgent information can be sent by the processing unit 3 without prior notification from the recognition device for a processing device.
- Such an information message can be sent, for example, to an RX port of the recognition device or the processing device. Coordination of the RX port was provided to the processing unit upon registration of the individual processing devices with the processing unit. Most such information messages are standardized for the processing units.
- FIG. 2 shows a diagram for illustrating the communication between recognition devices of the processing devices and the processing unit 3 as a function of the amount of data and the cycle speed of the transport device.
- a splitter control is used. For example, in the case of four detectors, or transfer units, and a speed of 43200 product copies per hour, approximately 20 individual messages are combined in a single message packet as soon as a transmission is triggered. Therefore, only five message packets per second are sent to the processing unit by a recognition unit. Without a delay time for sending the messages and grouping into message packets, about 100 messages per second would reach the processing unit, ie a considerably larger volume of data to be processed.
- the method of the present invention improves the control and processing of products during transport through a manufacturing plant according to the invention in terms of both product quality and quantity, and allows products to be grouped together and captured as new entities, which is particularly has proven to be advantageous in sorting and packaging products.
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