JP6062267B2 - Operating method of molding machine - Google Patents

Description

The present invention is a method of operating a molding machine in which a plurality of users who use the molding machine exist, wherein the plurality of users are sorted into a plurality of groups in which upper and lower hierarchical relationships are determined in advance, and each group to which a user belongs The present invention relates to an operation method in a molding machine to which operation authority is given.

  For example, a molding machine for molding and processing articles represented by an injection molding machine has its operation controlled by a microcomputer as a control means, and has high productivity and high precision of a molded product. In such a microcomputer-controlled molding machine, the operating conditions need to be set in advance, and the molding machine is operated according to the set operating conditions. Therefore, if the “operating condition” is erroneously set or is intentionally changed to a wrong setting, the apparatus will malfunction. The prior art regarding such a problem is disclosed by patent document 1 etc.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-1555066

  By the way, the prior art disclosed by the above-mentioned patent document 1 groups “operating conditions (system parameters)”, so that the setting / changing operation of predetermined operating conditions (system parameters) is double ( By requiring a plurality of passwords, an operation for setting / changing the “operation condition” is prevented from being erroneously performed. Change is supposed to be impossible.) According to this, although it can be said that it is excellent in terms of security of protection from an erroneous operation, a plurality of passwords are required (for example, the rank of the group is five levels) when performing stepwise grouping. In this case, five passwords are required to perform the highest-rank operation), which may be complicated in terms of operability.

  In addition to the operation setting and changing operations, the microcomputer-controlled molding machine as described above performs various operations such as operations to operate the molding machine and operations for maintenance and management of the molding machine. In many cases, there are a plurality of users who are familiar with each operation. That is, a molding person who sets or changes molding conditions for molding machines for each molded product, a serviceman who sets up the basic settings for initial settings and maintenance of molding machines, and simply operates (runs) the molding machine. There are multiple users, such as an operator in charge of starting / stopping, an administrator such as a factory manager who manages the molding machine and users, etc., but for security management, multiple users are grouped and each When operating authority is given so that only specific operations can be performed for each group, for example, each time a specific person tries to perform an operation across multiple groups, the password is entered as a user for each group. If you do not log in, you will not be able to perform the desired operation. To increase, there is a fear that bad operability.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is a method of operating a molding machine in which there are a plurality of users who use the molding machine, and the security is improved by restricting the operations to the molding machine for each user. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for operating a molding machine with improved operability while achieving the above.

Invention of the operation method of this molding machine
According to the type of job of the user who operates the molding machine, the user is selected into a plurality of groups in which the upper and lower hierarchical relationships are determined in advance , and only a specific operation assigned to each group can be performed on the users belonging to each group. The operation method of the molding machine to which the operation authority is given,
When a user belonging to a higher group wants to perform an operation across a plurality of groups, if the higher group is allowed to select a screen, the user of the higher group is assigned a lower rank of the plurality of groups. By selecting the designated group, the operation items assigned to the lower designated group and the screen selection button are displayed on the menu screen displayed on the display unit,
By pressing the screen selection button displayed on the menu screen of the display unit, a list of all operation items of the molding machine that can be operated in the lower designated group is displayed on the screen selection screen of the display unit. By selecting whether to display or hide the operation item displayed on the selection screen, the operation item corresponding to the operation across the plurality of groups is displayed and set, so that the selection is set on the menu screen. The operation item is additionally displayed, and an operation corresponding to the additionally displayed operation item can be performed.

Furthermore, the invention of the operation method of this molding machine is
The lower designated group among the plurality of groups is a group to which a person in charge of molding who changes the molding conditions of the molding machine belongs as a user.

Furthermore, the invention of the operation method of this molding machine is
In addition to the group to which the person in charge of molding who changes the molding conditions of the molding machine belongs as a user, the group to which the user who performs setup of the basic settings of the molding machine belongs, and the start and stop of the molding machine And a group to which the user who manages the molding machine and the user belongs.

According to the present invention, even if the operation of the users belonging to these groups is restricted from the viewpoint of security, the specific users belonging to the higher group are divided into a plurality of groups according to the job types of the users. When you want to perform authority operations that span multiple groups, select the lower specified group from the multiple groups, select and set the operation items corresponding to the operations that span multiple groups, and Selection items can be additionally displayed on the menu screen, and operations corresponding to the operation items displayed on the menu screen can be performed. In other words, an operation is performed in which a user is logged in with a lower designated group and operation authority is not granted to the lower designated group, and operation authority is granted to other groups other than the lower designated group. Even in such a case, it is possible to easily perform an operation by logging in a single group without performing complicated operations such as logging in by a plurality of groups.

It is a schematic block diagram which shows the injection molding machine of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the control system of an injection molding machine. It is explanatory drawing which shows the occupation type of the user divided into groups, and work and operation authority. It is explanatory drawing which shows a menu screen when logging in with the group of "simple". It is explanatory drawing which shows a menu screen when logging in with the group of "maintenance". It is explanatory drawing which shows a menu screen when logging in with the group of "former". It is explanatory drawing which shows a menu screen when logging in with the group of an "operator". It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed on the display part of an injection molding machine same as the above, (a) and (d) are menu screens, and (b) and (c) are screen selections when logging in with "simple". The screen is shown.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Of course, it goes without saying that the present invention can be easily applied to configurations other than those described in the embodiments without departing from the spirit of the invention.

  An injection molding machine 1 according to an example of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 is for manufacturing a molded body using a granular thermoplastic resin as a raw material. The injection molding machine 1 includes a machine base 2 on the machine base 2. An injection unit 3 and a mold clamping unit 4 are disposed.

  In the mold clamping unit 4, a mold opening / closing is performed for mold clamping (mold closing) and mold opening by moving the movable mold 8 mounted on the movable die plate 7 forward and backward with respect to the fixed mold 6 mounted on the fixed die plate 5. As the mold opening / closing mechanism in the present embodiment, the movable link 8 is repeatedly moved with respect to the fixed mold 6 by bending the toggle link mechanism 9 using a driving force of a motor (not shown) as a drive source. Open and close the mold.

  The injection unit 3 includes a cylindrical heating cylinder 11 having an injection nozzle 10 attached to the tip thereof. The thermoplastic resin supplied into the heating cylinder 11 is supplied by a screw 12 provided in the heating cylinder 11. After being kneaded while being heated and weighed, it is injected into the mold cavity.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the injection molding machine 1 includes a storage unit 16 that stores various operating conditions of the injection molding machine 1, and a mechanism control unit that controls the operation of the injection molding machine 1 according to the operating conditions. 17, a control unit 18 that controls the entire injection molding machine, a touch panel 22 that combines a display unit 20 that is an output interface for a user and an input unit 21 that is an input interface that receives input from the user, control of the display unit 20 A screen display processing unit 23 for performing the above, an input processing unit 24 for performing discrimination of a signal from the input unit 21, a timer unit 25 which is a time measuring means, and the like.

  The injection molding machine 1 according to the present embodiment can perform user registration in advance in order to limit who can perform operations on the injection molding machine 1 (in order to improve security). When using the molding machine 1, first, login to the injection molding machine 1 is required, and user setting registration for the injection molding machine 1 is performed by operating the touch panel 22. User registration is performed by setting “user name” and “password” and “group” according to the job type of the user, and the contents are “producer”, “manager” as shown in FIG. , “Service”, “Maintenance”, “Former”, “Simple”, “Worker” are grouped hierarchically, “Producer” of “1” is the highest hierarchy, “1” The hierarchy becomes lower in the order of “7”, and “operator” of “7” is the lowest hierarchy. Then, by performing such group settings, these pieces of information are stored in the storage unit 50 in advance.

  Each group of “1” to “7” (“producer”, “manager”, “service”, “maintenance”, “former”, “simple”, “operator”) is an injection molding machine. 1 is assigned (for example, restrictions on screens that can be displayed and restrictions on various setting operations of the injection molding machine 1). In the present embodiment, the contents are defined based on the job type of the user as shown in the “operation authority” column of FIG. 3, and a specific example of the “operation authority” is, for example, “6”. As the operation authority of the “simple” group, as shown in the menu screen of FIG. 4, “injection / plasticization”, “die opening / closing / EJ”, “temperature setting”, “production management”, “exchange”, “ The operation authority of the “inspection screen”, “password”, and “screen selection” group, and the “maintenance” group of “4” are “injection / plasticization”, “ Die opening / closing / EJ ”,“ Temperature setting ”,“ Production control ”,“ Injection graph ”,“ Monitor ”,“ Replacement ”,“ Inspection screen ”,“ Option operation ”,“ Password ”,“ Plasticizing aid ”,“ "Core", "Automatic heater", "Operation process", "Plastification graph" , “Monitor item”, “10 monitor screen”, “Alarm history”, “Option signal”, “Language switch”, “Air”, “1-cycle graph”, “Monitor display”, “Injection compression”, “Communication port” “Setting”, “Mold open / close option”, “Setting history”, “One cycle logic”, “Monitor graph”, “Molding navigation”, “Gate cut”, “Time setting”, “Select one cycle graph item”, “Monitor” “Preliminary”, “Option check”, “Clay measurement”, “Unit setting”, “1 cycle logic item selection”, “Molding condition diagnosis”, “Menu 2”, “Screen selection”, and “5” As shown in the menu screen of FIG. 6, the operation authority of the “former” group is “injection / plasticization”, “die opening / closing / EJ”, “temperature setting”, “production control”, “injection graph”. , “Monitor”, “replacement”, “Inspection screen”, “Password”, “Plasticization assistance”, “Core”, “Automatic heater”, “Operation process”, “Plasticization graph”, “Monitor item”, “10 monitor screen”, “Alarm history” ”,“ Language switch ”,“ Condition list ”,“ Air ”,“ Condition storage ”,“ 1-cycle graph ”,“ Monitor display ”,“ Injection compression ”,“ Communication port setting ”,“ Mold open / close option ”,“ “Setting history”, “Monitor graph”, “Molding navigation”, “Gate cut”, “Select one cycle graph item”, “Monitor spare”, “Option check”, “Clay measurement”, “Molding condition diagnosis”, In addition, as shown in the menu screen of FIG. 7, “7” “operator” group operation authority includes “injection / plasticization”, “die opening / closing / EJ”, “temperature setting”, “production management”. ”,“ Injection graph ”,“ Monitor ”,“ Replacement ”,“ Screen display of "Sword", "Core", "Operation Process", "Monitor Item", "10 Monitor Screen", "Language Switch", "Condition List", "Air", "Monitor Display", "Monitor Graph" It is impossible to set only.

Here, the screen displayed on the display unit 20 of the injection molding machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. When logging in to the injection molding machine 1, the type of the group to which the logged-in user belongs is determined, and a menu screen corresponding to the determined group is displayed on the display unit 20 ( For example, “Simple” has the menu screen shown in FIG. 4, “Maintenance” has the menu screen shown in FIG. 5, “Former” has the menu screen shown in FIG. 6, and “Worker” has the menu screen shown in FIG. ), Menus according to the operation authority for the injection molding machine 1 given for each group in consideration of security (for example, restrictions on screens that can be displayed, restrictions on various setting operations of the apparatus, etc.) in the case where the screen is displayed, for example, a particular user in belonging to the upper group, to operate the authority across multiple groups ( Example, if the operation to a user belonging to the group of "maintenance" permission has been granted "option operation", operated by a user belonging to the group of "workers" in the lower-order group authority has been granted a "list of conditions." If you do not want to display and operate the “Eject Graph” screen etc. so that you can display and operate it on the menu screen all together, you will need to log in and operate in multiple groups. In this embodiment, in order to solve such a problem, all the operation items in the menu screen assigned to each lower group are displayed on a single menu screen. These display settings will be described below.

An example of menu screen transition will be described with reference to FIGS. First, a user who is registered in a higher group in advance logs in with “simple”, which is a lower specified group with a lower designated operation authority. Then, a menu screen (same screen as the “simple” menu screen shown in FIG. 4) is displayed on the display unit 20 as shown in FIG. 8A. Here, the screen displayed on the menu screen is displayed. When the selection button 30 is pressed, a screen selection screen on which all operation items that can be operated in the lower group are displayed on the display unit 20 as shown in FIG. 8B.

  Next, out of all operation item lists displayed on the screen selection screen shown in FIG. 8B, operation items desired to be displayed / operated, here, “optional operation” and “condition list” are assumed. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8C, “optional operation” and “condition list” are selected and set from non-display (OFF) to display (ON).

  Then, as shown in FIG. 8D, in the menu screen, in addition to the operation items displayed in FIG. 8A, operation items of “option operation” and “condition list” are additionally displayed. As a result, an operation corresponding to the additionally displayed operation item can be performed, and an undesired screen cannot be operated. As shown in FIGS. 4, 8 (a) and 8 (d), the screen selection button 30 includes “simple” which is a lower designated group designated in advance and “producer” which is a higher group. ”,“ Service ”,“ Maintenance ”group, only displayed when logged in, and other groups“ Administrator ”,“ Former ”,“ Worker ”logged in (As shown in the “screen selection” column of FIG. 3, the screen selection button 30 is displayed when “Yes” is displayed, but the screen selection button 30 is not displayed when “No” is displayed).

  As described above, according to the operation method of the injection molding machine 1 of the present embodiment, the user is hierarchically selected into a plurality of groups according to the job type of the user who operates the injection molding machine 1, and belongs to each group. By giving the operation authority to the user so that only a specific operation given for each group can be performed, it is possible to set in advance whether or not to have the operation authority for various operations for the grouped users. Each group (a group of users who are divided and familiar with specific operations) can be given operation authority for operations according to their business contents.

On the other hand, when a user belonging to a higher group wants to perform an operation across a plurality of groups, a user selects a lower designated group among the plurality of groups, for example , “simple” and logs in. In addition to the operation items previously assigned to the lower designated group, a screen selection button 30 is displayed on the menu screen of the display unit 20 (the state shown in FIG. 8A) and displayed on the menu screen of the display unit 20. By pressing the selected screen selection button 30, a list of all operation items of the injection molding machine 1 that can be operated in a lower group is displayed on the screen selection screen of the display unit 20 (state in FIG. 8B). on the display or non-display of the selected operation item displayed on the said screen selection screen, displaying an operation item corresponding to more operation across the plurality of groups of lower (oN Is selected and set (the state of FIG. 8C), the selected and set operation item is additionally displayed on the menu screen (the state of FIG. 8D), and the additional displayed operation item is displayed. The corresponding operation can be performed. Therefore, from the viewpoint of security, even if the operations of users belonging to these groups are restricted, for example, when a specific user belonging to a higher group wants to operate an authority across multiple groups, Select the lower specified group from the multiple groups, select and set the operation item corresponding to the operation across multiple groups, and additionally display the selected item on the menu screen. It is possible to perform operations corresponding to the operation items. In other words, an operation is performed in which a user is logged in with a lower designated group and operation authority is not granted to the lower designated group, and operation authority is granted to other groups other than the lower designated group. Even so, it is possible to easily perform a desired operation by logging in the “simple” group, which is a single group, without performing complicated operations such as logging in with a plurality of groups.

1 Injection molding machine
2 machine 3 injection unit 4 mold clamping unit 5 fixed die plate 6 fixed die 7 movable die plate 8 movable die 9 toggle link mechanism 10 injection nozzle 11 heating cylinder 12 screw 16 storage unit 17 mechanism control unit 18 control unit 20 display Unit 21 Input unit 22 Touch panel 23 Screen display processing unit 24 Input processing unit 25 Timer unit 30 Screen selection button

Claims (2)

According to the type of job of the user who operates the molding machine, the user is selected into a plurality of groups in which the upper and lower hierarchical relationships are determined in advance, and only a specific operation assigned to each group can be performed on the users belonging to each group. The operation method of the molding machine to which the operation authority is given,
When a user belonging to a higher group wants to perform an operation across a plurality of groups, if the higher group is allowed to select a screen, the user of the higher group is assigned a lower rank of the plurality of groups. By selecting the designated group, the operation items assigned to the lower designated group and the screen selection button are displayed on the menu screen displayed on the display unit,
By pressing the screen selection button displayed on the menu screen of the display unit, a list of all operation items of the molding machine that can be operated in the lower designated group is displayed on the screen selection screen of the display unit. By selecting whether to display or hide the operation item displayed on the selection screen, the operation item corresponding to the operation across the plurality of groups is displayed and set, so that the selection is set on the menu screen. A method of operating a molding machine, characterized in that an operation item corresponding to the additionally displayed operation item can be performed by additionally displaying the selected operation item.   2. The method of operating a molding machine according to claim 1, wherein a lower designated group of the plurality of groups is a group to which a molding person who changes molding conditions of the molding machine belongs as a user.

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