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• the invention relates to a control system of the tobacco processing industry and a method of controlling a machine of the tobacco processing industry.
• Tobacco-processing industry machines such as, in particular, cigarette making machines, filter-making machines, multi-segment filter making machines, tobacco processing devices, filter attachment machines, cigarette packaging machines used to package manufactured cigarettes, are composed of a variety of machine parts and elements have to interact optimally with one another, in connection with the materials to be processed, such as tobacco, filter materials and wrapping strips or wrapping or packaging materials.
• a cigarette manufacturing machine more than 2000 parameters can be adjusted or changed without problems, in order to produce an optimal, high-quality end product, for example a film. terzigarette.
• These parameters include the weight of the manufactured cigarette, the tobacco moisture, a diameter, a platen position, the tightness, a paper layer position, pressures, temperatures, the glue pattern, the amount of glue and drive speeds, to name a few relevant process parameters to name, which may be present at different locations of the machines.
• brand parameters may also play a role, such as a tobacco mix, a desired length of the produced cigarette
• Diameter, weight, weight distribution, a specific processing of the wrapping material or a tobacco quality Due to the many years of experience of the patent applicant, it is possible to set these parameters, which are to be set for the respective machines, very close to the optimum. In the production of cigarettes, however, the operators may change parameters to improve the result, for example the quality of the finished product or the amount obtained per unit time, or to allow a minimization of the Committee.
• factories of cigarette manufacturers may be several machines of different types, different manufacturers but also in part a plurality of the same or similar machines of a manufacturer and be in operation to produce cigarettes. This can lead to different good grades per machine on the machines and to different quantities of high-quality cigarettes produced or different amounts of rejects of cigarettes. For example, it can also lead to different numbers of strand breaks, although experienced operators operate the same machines.
• a control system of the tobacco processing industry comprising a first data network and a first server connected to the first data network, wherein a plurality of machines of the tobacco processing industry are connected to the first data network, wherein machine parameters and Ma - Machine measurements of the machines are detected or can be detected and transmitted via the first data network to the first server and are correlated with the first server based on a particular specifiable optimization criterion so correlated that tax optimization values for at least one of the machines are determined or determined are.
• a rotational speed of a drum As a machine parameter, in particular, a rotational speed of a drum, a rotational speed of a bobbin, which emits a U mhüllungsmaterial, an electrical voltage value to a conveyor organ or a glue or
• Adhesive dispensing member a pressure value in an adhesive dispensing nozzle, a conveying speed, a paper position, a format tape speed, a diameter of a manufactured strand, a position of an imprint, a weight of a manufactured cigarette, a density of the head reinforcement of a cigarette, a glue pressure, a seam amount, a rotor position of a cigarette
• a size image a thickness of a wrapping material, a speed of a fan for generating a negative pressure, a speed of a tobacco conveyor, the speed of a Auskwalze, a limit of tobacco density, a pressure value of a Nahtplätte, a negative pressure on the suction belt conveyor and other parameters considered.
• the tobacco moisture As machine readings, the tobacco moisture, an air pressure, a conveying speed, a moisture of the wrapping material strip, a fan speed, a density of the tobacco in the cigarette rod, the length of the produced cigarette, the height of a tobacco tobacco on a suction belt conveyor, the amount of tobacco bleached from the Saugstrangrawer, the number of cigarettes produced per unit time and other machine readings, in particular the temperature at the Nahtplätte or apply to motors or motors.
• the first data network is an intranet.
• a multiplicity of machine parameters and machine measured values of the machines can be detected and compared, for example, with one another.
• a machine of a machine park of several similar machines for example similar machines, has a higher efficiency in a production hall of filter cigarettes, i. For example, produces a smaller amount of rejects.
• the other machines can be compared and it can be determined which parameters or measured values deviate accordingly. In this case, preferably for the
• Machine parameters or machine measurements tolerance ranges are given, which are regarded as irrelevant, i. be taken into account in a comparison due to the low diversity of the respective values.
• the deviating measured values and / or parameters can then serve to optimize the other poorer running machines, in particular automatically.
• additional environmental parameters of the plurality of machines are detected or can be detected, whereby these are transmitted via the first Data network are transmitted to the first server or can be transmitted and correlated with each other and / or with the machine parameters and / or machine measurements in the first server based on the optimization criterion and / or another optimization criterion.
• the environmental parameters may be the ambient temperature, for example the temperature in the production hall, the humidity in the production hall or at different locations of the production hall. This may also be the pressure in the ambient temperature.
• Main blower of the production hall act.
• air pressure values or the strength or direction of air flows in the production hall it is also possible to understand air pressure values or the strength or direction of air flows in the production hall.
• the first server is connected or connectable to a second server via a second data network, wherein predeterminable machine measured values, predefinable machine parameters, predefinable environmental parameters and / or predefinable control optimization values are transmitted or can be transmitted.
• the first server is set up, for example, at a customer of the manufacturer of the machines of the tobacco-processing industry, and the second server at the manufacturer. Improved tax optimization values can be achieved or improved machine parameters can be achieved by the experience of the manufacturer or a larger database. By specifying the machine parameters, the machine measurements and / or the control optimization values that are transmitted or transferable, the customer has the opportunity to determine which values are actually output.
• control optimization values are predetermined as machine parameters of at least one machine of the plurality of machines for controlling the at least one machine.
• the optimization criterion is the lowest possible rejects of the products of the tobacco-processing industry, a produced quantity of products of the tobacco-processing industry in relation to a maximum possible quantity of produced products of the tobacco-processing industry, an energy consumption in relation to one produced Quantity of products of the tobacco processing industry, a wear in relation to a produced quantity of products of the tobacco processing industry and / or a quality of produced products of the tobacco processing industry.
• the control system of the tobacco-processing industry is particularly preferably when the second server is designed to correlate machine parameters and machine measured values and / or environmental parameters of a multiple quantity of the plurality of machines of the tobacco-processing industry with one another based on the, in particular predefinable, optimization criterion Tax optimization values for at least one of the machines are determined or can be determined.
• the second server in particular correlates machine parameters and machine measured values and / or deformation parameters as well as possibly proposed control optimization values from the first server of different production sites, so that
• the object is further achieved by a method for controlling a machine of the tobacco-processing industry, wherein machine parameters and machine measured values of the machines of the plurality of machines are recorded from a plurality of machines of the tobacco-processing industry and with one another according to an, in particular predefinable, optimization criterion be correlated to determine control optimization values used to control the machine.
• additional environmental parameters of the machines are recorded and these are correlated with one another and / or with the machine parameters and / or machine measured values on the basis of the optimization criterion and / or a further optimization criterion.
• the optimization criterion is the smallest possible exclusion of the products of the tobacco-processing industry, a produced quantity of products of the tobacco-processing industry in relation to a maximum possible amount of produced products of the tobacco-processing industry, an energy consumption in relation to a produced quantity Products of the tobacco processing industry, a wear in relation to a produced quantity of products of the tobacco processing industry and / or a quality of produced products of the tobacco processing industry.
• the machine parameters and machine measured values, and in particular the environmental parameters are preferably transmitted to a first server via a first data network and the control optimization values are determined in the first server, in particular predefinable machine parameters, predefinable machine measured values, predefinable environmental parameters and / or predefinable control optimization values over a second data network transmitted from the first server to a second server, wherein the second server in particular machine parameters and machine measured values, and in particular environmental parameters, a A multiple quantity of the plurality of machines of the tobacco-processing industry is correlated with each other on the basis of the, in particular predefinable, optimization criterion in such a way that control optimization values for at least one of the machines are determined.
• a computer program product is specified which, when running on a first server and / or second server, executes the inventive or preferred method steps.
• a computer program product comprising a storage medium is specified, on which a program code is stored, which, when executed on a first and / or second server, causes this or these to carry out the inventive or preferred method steps.
• the invention serves to generate optimal parameter settings of the machines of the tobacco processing industry.
• production machines of the tobacco-processing industry can collect and process a great deal of data via powerful control systems and, for example, display them on a visualization.
• These control systems of the individual machines are connected according to the invention via a first data network to a first server. In the prior art, this serves to indicate the production output and the product quality of the machines.
• the corresponding machine parameters, machine measurements and / or environmental parameters are used to optimize machine efficiency, production quality, scrap rates, spare parts life and / or energy consumption.
• These are the settings of the machine, ie the machine parameters, for example the mechanical settings, the basic conditions such as temperature, air pressure and humidity, the infrastructure, for example the supply of electrical or negative pressure, the quality of base materials, such as wrapping material strips, for example. paper, tobacco, glue, and the personal behavior of machine operators, such as cleaning and maintenance.
• the production result that is, for example, the number of products produced per unit time and their quality
• the basic conditions of the machines These framework conditions can be detected metrologically or can be defined or specified as parameters and settings of the machine.
• these data are used by several machines producing a similar or similar product in order to derive meaningful correlations therefrom, for example with which machine settings the best production results have been achieved and can be achieved. It can thus by a
• Comparison of production times and production results optimal settings of machines for a brand or a format (length and / or diameter) or a combination of materials can be found.
• corresponding significances can result, for example that the vacuum in a region of the machine has been driven at a similar level in many machines which achieve very good production results.
• a heater temperature or a metrologically sensed specific mechanical adjustment that results in very good production results on many machines could be used to provide this as a control optimization value.
• the correlations or significances ascertained as a result which are based on a large number of parameters and measured values as well as modulation parameters on or at the machine, can be used to make corresponding adjustment recommendations or control options. derived and proposed accordingly or set at the machines.
• the tax optimization values can be set via recommendation lists or directly and automatically.
• one or more central first servers can be networked or connected to the machines via data lines or data networks. This provides the required database for evaluation.
• the first server can be arranged at a location in the vicinity of the machines and execute a corresponding method for controlling a machine of the tobacco-processing industry as proposed according to the invention, or a corresponding evaluation can be carried out remotely in a second server.
• the first data network and / or the second is
• Data network is a security network accessible only to authorized persons or servers.
• the software running on the respective server can compare or correlate the machine parameters, machine measured values and / or environmental parameters as well as an optimization criterion or several optimization criteria and propose optimal parameter sets for the machines. These optimized parameter sets or machine settings or machine parameters are then sent back to the respective machines of the tobacco processing industry and an operator can check the proposed values and release them for the machine or the values can be automatically taken over by the respective machine.
• machines may also be used. parameters that fundamentally lead to poor production results. These machine parameters can then be excluded as allowable parameters from the control system for the production of a particular brand or in principle. For example, value ranges for machine parameters can be restricted here.
• the wear of spare parts can be compared with the machine settings or machine parameters and measured values. It can be determined with which machine parameters or settings the spare parts wear is the least and which spare parts have the longest running time. This reduces the costs for the necessary spare parts orders.
• Correlation be set to the energy consumption data of the machines.
• parameters or control optimization values can be determined, in which the machines have the largest output with the lowest energy consumption.
• error events can be used to use the machine parameters, machine measurements, and / or encumbrance parameters to find conditions or find parameters that produce corresponding errors to prevent them from happening in the future through other control optimization values.
• the comparison of all machines in a production hall can also be used to detect causes of errors that can be found in the geographical location of the machines within the production hall. For example, as already mentioned above, two machines could have paper tears much more frequently than others in the same production hall. This could be due to the fact that these machines are arranged close to the outer gate of the hall, so that due to frequent temperature fluctuations caused by the opening and closing of the gate or delivery traffic occurring there cause these abnormalities.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a control system according to the invention of the tobacco processing industry.
• Fig. 1 shows schematically a control system of the tobacco processing industry.
• a first production site for example in a production hall
• six machines of the tobacco processing industry 1 0-1 5 are connected to a first server 20 via a first data network 30.
• Corresponding machine parameters and machine measured values and possibly environmental parameters are made available to the first server 20 and preferably compared with the method according to the invention in order to determine corresponding correlations of these machine measured values or machine parameters and possibly environmental parameters so that control optimization values are determined on the basis of an optimization criterion.
• the same can be done at a further production site, for example, at a production site in which six machines of the tobacco processing industry of the same type, which have the reference numerals 1 00, 1 10, 120, 130, 140 and 1 50 are placed, and otherwise three further machines of the tobacco processing industry of another type having the reference numerals 200, 210 and 220.
• the first six machines may be, for example, the patent applicant's Protos M8 cigarette making machines, and the other three machines are manufactured cigarette making machines manufactured by Decoufle s.a.r.l. or Protos 100 of the Applicant.
• All of these machines are connected via a first data network 31 to a first server 21.
• the first server 21 can serve, on the basis of a particular predefinable optimization criterion, machine parameters, machine measured values and / or ambient conditions. Correlate parameters so that control optimization values for the machines can be determined and also predefined. In a certain amount, the corresponding parameters or measured values of the various machines can also be correlated with one another, since they can also be very similar or identical to one another. For example, the value of the negative pressure in conveyor drums or a glue temperature during application may be the same for different machines.
• these can also be transmitted via a second data network 40 from the first servers 20 and 21 to a second server 22. It can also be provided that only a part of the corresponding data is transmitted to the second server 22 if, for example, the operators of the two production sites want to release only a portion of the data.
• the second server can then determine statistically improved control optimization values based on a larger amount of data and transmit them via the second data network 40 to the first servers 20 and 21.
• first server 20, 21 is substituted for the second server 22 for a first server 20, 21 to correlate data from various production sites to determine control optimization values for the particular machines.

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