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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method for checking the availability of the components of a production and / or packaging line, wherein each component is connected to a computer means via a data transfer means.
• the task is solved with a procedure for checking the availability of the
• each component is connected via a data transfer means to a computer means, wherein the computer means checks in case of error or operating status message of a component, whether this component or another component causally for the error or the
• the present invention relates to a method for checking the components of a production and / or packaging line. Such a production and / or
• Packaging line is used for example in the food manufacturing industry. This production and / or packaging line has a plurality of components. For example, in the food processing industry, the lines initially
• At least one food processing device in particular
• a food shredder for example a meat grinder and / or a cutter
• a former forming a mass of food into certain individual portions having a certain shape and / or weight
• a surface treatment for example a breading device
• a heat treatment for example an oven or fryer and / or a slicing device which converts a food product into a plurality of
• the production and / or packaging line in particular in the food industry, preferably still has a portioning device with which portions are configured.
• the portioning machine may divide a product stream into portions having a certain number of individual products and / or portions of a certain weight.
• the production and / or packaging line preferably has an inserter and / or a packaging machine.
• the depositor inserts products or portions in packaging.
• the insert is an endless band, in particular a so-called shuffle band and / or a robot, in particular a so-called pick and place robot.
• Packaging machine can be any of those skilled in the art
• the packaging machine is a so-called form-fill-seal packaging machine, for example a so-called thermoformer or a vertical or horizontal tubular bag packaging machine.
• the packaging machine may also be a tray sealer.
• Downstream of the packaging machine is preferably still a louverzeier, and / or cartoners provided.
• the louzeier separates the manufactured packaging and the cartoner summarizes a certain number of packages in a carton.
• each of these components is then connected to a computer means via a data transfer means.
• the data transfer can be a data line or a wireless data transmission.
• the data transfer is bidirectional.
• the computer means is a conventional CPU known to the person skilled in the art, which, for example, can also assume control and / or regulation functions of the respective component and / or the line.
• this computer means is provided in one of the components and is controlled via the input means, for example a display, of this component.
• Target values in particular nominal production rates of the individual components and / or the entire line, are preferably communicated to the computer means.
• the computer means has an output means with which the information obtained can be visualized, for example, or transmitted to another computer means.
• the computer means may be multiple units, for example, a computer means only error or Operating status messages recorded and optionally recorded and another computer means performs the evaluation.
• the evaluation is preferably carried out with a time delay, in particular subsequently.
• the operating status message contains, for example, information about which production quantity the respective component is currently producing.
• each information contains a time specification, in particular a real-time indication.
• the operating state message for example, information about the remaining stock at a
• An error message includes, for example, information that the respective component is not producing or at a reduced production rate.
• Computer means, the operating condition reason, d. H. whether the reduced capacity and / or the standstill of the respective component was actually caused by that component.
• the computer means, for example, further information, provided by the respective component to determine whether at the respective
• each component has at least one sensor that the
• Computer means informs about the mechanical and / or electrical / electronic state of the component and / or the availability of resources and / or raw materials.
• a means is additionally provided which also checks the operability of the sensor. For example, if a sensor tells the computer means that a resource and / or resource is not available, the computer means first checks if that sensor is functional to determine if the resource and / or raw material is actually missing or the sensor is faulty. Only when the computer means has determined that the respective resource and / or the raw material are actually missing, it is based on the information available, the production reduction of the raw material supply or the
• the computer means checks the operating state of the other components in the line and determines whether they are in accordance with the predetermined
• the computer means checks in which temporal sequence the respectively reduced production capacities of the respective component were reported to the computer means. In particular, that checks
• the computer means determines which component is responsible for reducing the production capacity of the line.
• the computer means then allocates this reduction in production capacity to only this single component, since the other components of the line must reduce their production capacity only in response to the component causing the error. In this way, production bottlenecks can be determined by the computer means.
• the computer means then preferably prepares a performance analysis of the line to determine which component is most responsible for reducing production capacity. Preferably, this component is then analyzed in more detail by the computer means to determine what the reasons for failure are.
• the outage may be machine or replenishment conditional.
• a machine-related failure can be remedied by more frequent or more targeted maintenance, by a higher capacity component, and / or by providing a parallel additional component in the line. Replenishment-related outage can at least be mitigated by improved production logistics.
• the computer means further detects why the production capacity of this component has had to be reduced and / or how long the causative
• Component with a reduced capacity has produced. Based on this information, for example, the maintenance and / or consumable replacement strategy of the line can be optimized.
• At least one component of the line is multi-lane parallel to
• Data transfer means connected to the computer means, preferably of all Parallel components receives information about their availability and / or their production capacity separately.
• the computer means further also detects components and / or aggregatable groups of components provided downstream and / or upstream of the line, each as a group or as a group only
• downstream components and / or a second group of upstream components and / or further definable groups can be analyzed.
• Figure 1 shows a production and / or packaging line 6, which is used in the present case in the food industry.
• This line 6 has, starting from the right, a slicing device 1 1, here a slicer, with a product feed area. Downstream of the slicing device 1 1 is a product insert 10, with the products in packaging trays, which have been deep-drawn in a packaging machine 9, are inserted.
• the packaging machine is a so-called form, fill, seal packaging device (FFS packaging machine). As soon as the packaging trays have been filled with the respective product, they are closed with a cover film. Downstream of the packaging machine 9 is still a louver 8, which separates the finished packaging, so that they can then be packaged, for example, in boxes.
• FFS packaging machine form, fill, seal packaging device
• Each of these components 8-1 is connected to a computer means 7 by means of at least one data transfer means AUX1-5.
• the data transfer means AUX1-5 may each be one of the data lines or a wireless connection.
• the computer means 7 has at least one CPU.
• the computer means 7 preferably has an input means (not shown) with which, for example, nominal values of the production capacity of the respective component or of the line can be transmitted to the computer means.
• the computer means 7 preferably has an output means (not shown), with which calculated analysis results can be transferred to a display, to a printer and / or to another computer means.
• Computer means 7 is preferably part of one of the components 8 -1 1 or a central control of the components 8 -1 1. The computer means now on the
• Data transfer means AUX 3 informed that the product filling 10 with a reduced capacity or not at all works, checks the computer means 7, whether the product 10 has been transmitted from the packaging machine 9, for example, a stop signal and / or if, for example, no food slices have been transmitted to the product filling 10 of the slicing device 1 1. For example, if the latter is the case, the computer means that product 10 does not cause them
• the computer means 7 checks whether on the part of the slicing device 1 1 a
• Computer means analyzes whether the product sensor communicating with the computer means via the data transfer line AUX 1 is functioning properly. If so, the computer means 7 registers that the product replenishment to the line 6 is not functioning and that none of the components are the cause of the production reduction. If the sensor does not function properly at the product entrance of the slicing device, the error is for example assigned to the slicing device.
• the computer means uses data as to when the slicer was last serviced and, for example, whether the sensor has been inspected as part of that maintenance. If this is not the case, the computer means generates an improvement suggestion that at the next maintenance the sensor should also be checked.
• the computer means may preferably determine which component in the context of the line is essentially the cause of a
• the computer means preferably makes suggestions as to how these bottlenecks can be eliminated.
• the computer means further collects also components and / or aggregatable groups of components provided downstream and / or upstream of the line, each as a group or a group of downstream components and / or a second group of upstream components and / or other definable groups whose number depends on the number of Data transfer agent AUX depends, can be analyzed. For example, with the data transfer means AUX 5, a downstream group of components can be analyzed.

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