JPH0398908A - Image-utilized operation control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent misoperation and ease the operation in an image-utilized operation control device for a grain drying/storing facility by providing an operation image means having both a carrying process selecting/commanding function and a selection indicating function, which indicates only an operation guide to the process selected. CONSTITUTION:An operational part is provided with an image means CRT 64, which indicates on its image screen various kinds of work processes in addition to various operation keys 57, automatic transfer switches 59 for grain receiving, automatic-manual transfer switches 61 for operation of trippers A and B, and transfer switches 62, which are turned on or off to alternately operate a charging elevator and a discharging elevator. On this CRT 64, a grain receiving operation image, a first grain drying operation image, and a second grain drying operation image are indicated in a switching manner, and also the destinations, or the places of the subsequent process, which are selected on each work place of a hopper, a bin, a drier, and so on are indicated. With this contrivance, the operation work becomes easier, and misoperation can be prevented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention "Industrial Application Field" The present invention uses grains such as rice or wheat for dry storage, such as country elevators, which are composed of a receiving section, a drying section, a storage section, a preparation and shipping section, etc. The present invention relates to an image-based operation control device in facilities or manufacturing facilities such as cement manufacturing facilities.

``Prior Art'' In large-scale facilities of this kind, computers are used to control and monitor operations by setting variety names, moisture values, weights, and variable timers.

``Problems to be solved by the invention'' However, the operation of each work process, i.e. the selection of chute lines, the automatic operation of conveyance lines such as elevators and conveyors (
There are many push-button switches on the control panel to operate the moving device (sequential start/stop), or to select storage bin loading, tank loading selection, silo loading selection, or ON/OFF operation of set/reset. In order to operate the desired push-button switch by arranging the buttons, a wide operating surface is required, which causes operational and structural problems that can cause erroneous operations or make operations difficult. .

``Means for Solving the Problems'' Therefore, the present invention selects one conveyance process from among a plurality of conveyance processes connecting a plurality of conveyance sources and a plurality of conveyance destinations to convey an object. The means is provided with an operation image means having a selection command function for selecting one transport process from a plurality of transport processes, and a selection display function for displaying only the operation guide corresponding to the selected transport process. .

"Function" According to the present invention, for example, operation screens such as each work process and selection of storage bins necessary for a grain drying storage facility such as a country elevator or rice center can be summarized into several screens, and these can be expressed numerically. By registering the operation in the computer and inputting the numerical values 0 to 9 displayed on the screen using the computer's keyboard operating means, for example, and turning it on and off instead of using a push button switch, the operation contents can be changed by color. With separate and text displays, the number of operation push buttons can be greatly reduced, making it possible to operate using the keyboard while looking at the computer screen, improving operability. Since only the operation guide corresponding to the transport process is displayed, the operator can perform safe and reliable operations without feeling confused, improving operability.

``Example'' An example of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings. 1st
The figure is an operation control circuit diagram, the second figure is a plan explanatory diagram of the entire facility,
Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram of the same work process, which is equipped with a cargo receiving section (1) that receives raw paddy, which is grain brought in individually and by consignment, in two lines A and B, from a receiving hopper (2) to a receiving conveyor. (3), a rough sorter (5) that removes impurities from the paddy that is brought in through the elevator (4), and a receiver weigher (5) that measures the weight and moisture content of each individual and parcel after rough sorting. 6) and
A storage bin (9), which is a receiving tank in which raw paddy is carried in from the weighing machine (6) via a bin loading elevator (7) and a top conveyor (8) and is temporarily held there before drying, is loaded into the storage bin (9). A-82 sets are provided in the section fil.

It also includes a drying section (10) that dries the raw paddy after receiving it by repeating drying and temporary suspension to equalize the moisture inside the grain and prevent shell cracking. The paddy is transferred to the bottom conveyor (l1) and the bin discharge elevator (1).
2) and a dryer (13) that is carried in via the dryer loading elevator (13) and removes a predetermined percentage of moisture each time.
14), and the dryer unloading conveyor (l5) and the elevator (
16) and a tempering tank (l8), which is a baby silo, carried in via the tank filling conveyor (17), and the semi-dried paddy or dried paddy taken out from the tempering tank (l8) are transferred to the dryer (l4) again. ) or a tempering tank take-out conveyor {20} for sending out to the storage section (19) for the next process.

Further, the storage section (19) is a storage silo (19) in which dried paddy from the drying section (10) is carried in and stored via a dryer takeout relay conveyor (2l), a silo lift i (221) and a silo input conveyor (23). 24), and a silo take-out elevator (27) that sends out the dried paddy taken out from the silo (24) via a silo take-out conveyor (25) to a preparation and shipping section (26) for the next process.

Furthermore, the preparation and shipping section (26) includes the storage section (9
) and a sorting machine (28) that removes and separates impurities from dried paddy taken out from the dry paddy (28), and the storage section (9) or the sorting machine (28).
The dry paddy from the adjustment tank (29) and the paddy elevator (
A rice huller (31) carries in the rice through a rice huller (30) and deweighs it, and a rice elevator (32) handles the agitated and mixed rice from the huller (3L).
A oscillating sorter (33
), and the brown rice from the oscillating sorter (33) is transferred to the brown rice elevator (3).
4), a foreign contamination removal device (35) for removing foreign grains that are carried into brown rice and mixed into the brown rice;
a grain sorter (37) that carries in the finished rice from 35) via a finished rice elevator (36) and sorts it into grains of a predetermined grain size;
A stone removing machine (38), a good brown rice elevator (4L) that sends good brown rice after grain selection and stone removal to a hopper scale (39) for bulk shipping or a bagging shipping tank (40) for packaging and shipping; A brown rice shipping tank (44) is provided into which good brown rice from the hopper scale (39) is fed via a brown rice tank feeding elevator (42) and a brown rice tank feeding moving conveyor (43).

(45) is the receiving room, (46) is the operation room, (47) is the office, (48) is the self-inspection room, (49) is the worker's room,
(50) is the blower room, (5l) is the dry dust removal room, (52)
is the wet dust removal equipment, (53) is the rice husk shipping room, (54) is the machine room, {55} is the rice husk product warehouse, and (56) is the product storage area.

By the way, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, rOJ ~ "9"
A receiving control circuit (58), which is a part of a control circuit composed of a microcomputer, is provided on the operation panel with various operation keys (57), which are keyboard operating means such as numeric keys (57al), to receive raw paddy. storage bin (9
) A-B receiving automatic changeover switch (59) that performs automatic operation until loading A bin (9a) or B bin (9b);
The raw paddy on the top conveyor (8) is moved to a bin (
9), an A-B changeover switch (61) for automatic and manual operation of the tripper (60) to be loaded into the loading elevator (7);
) and the A-B elevator changeover switch (62) that selectively turns on and off the discharge elevator (12) are connected to the control circuit (58), and various work processes such as loading and drying processes are connected. CRT (cathode-ray to
be) The control circuit (58) is output connected to (64) via a display circuit (65). The receiving conveyor (3), the receiving elevator (4), the bin loading elevator (7), the loading switching valve (66) for switching the destination direction of raw paddy from the elevator (7), and the top The control circuit (58) connects the conveyor (8), the tray (60), the bottom conveyor (11), and the bottom switching valve (67) for switching the destination direction of raw paddy from the conveyor (l1). Connect the output to the selector switch (59).
) to control these drives during automatic operation, and
The work process necessary for this work and the driving image for selecting the storage bin (9) are displayed on the screen of the CRT f641.

That is, on the screen of the CRT (64), there is a cargo receiving operation image (64al) showing the operating status in the receiving process as shown in FIG. The first drying operation image (64bl) representing the operation work situation in the expanded silo section as shown in Fig. 7, and the second drying operation image (64cl etc. (9)・Dryer (14)
Alternatively, it is provided so that the destination from each work unit such as the silo (24) to the next process can be selected and the destination can be displayed. This will be explained below using the image f64al in FIG. 5 as an example.
l [c) (The character images indicated by each subtitle of dl are fixed images and the displayed content does not change. For example, if it is located in "Consignment receiving operation section A or B" (
In the character display section f), "AUTO" is displayed when the changeover switch (59) is automatically switched to perform the automatic cargo receiving operation, and "OFF" is displayed at other times. In addition, (the display part of GL is “
Position the cursor on the screen at the "US" mark position, and enter the arrival station number (in this case, "1" or "2") of the destination bin (9) from the item (C) using the operation keys (57) rOJ ~ " If you press the numeric key (57a) of ``9'' manually, ``A bin row'' or ``B bin row'' will be displayed in the rectangular frame of fg), and the inside of this frame and the arrow frame of (fl) will be displayed in red. It is set so that the signal changes to red.In this case, if rOJ is entered manually as the destination station number, the partial extracted image in Figure 8 +64d
As shown in <(g), "Stop" is displayed in text within the rectangular frame of (g), and the inside of this frame and the arrow frame of (fl) are colored green. (The color can be changed freely.) In addition, in the case of hopper A going to A bin, operations of other work processes that overlap with this process are prohibited.
In the "Consignment receiving operation part B", the "A bin line" with the destination station number "1" is displayed, and in the "A bin discharge operation part", the destination station number ``rl'', ``2'', ``3'', ``4'', ``5'' is displayed. ” and “6” are “dryer A operation section” and “drying silo operation section” in another image f64bl, so that “A bin line” of each destination station number “1” is prohibited. A red light is displayed within the rectangular frame that displays the destination station number. In this case, the entire display may be erased from above the image (64a) [64bl.

On the other hand, the "tripper A or B" display part of the image (64al) is designed to display the current position of the tripper (60), and the character display part of (fl) is displayed when the tripper (64al) is selected by the changeover switch (61). 60) When automatic operation is performed, "Automatic" is displayed, and at other times, "Manual" is displayed in text. 9b) is provided so that the bottle number is displayed in text. Also, when operating the tripper (6o) manually, place the cursor on the screen at the "rice" mark position on (gl) and press the operation key ( 57
)'s numerical keys "○" to "9" (use 57al to select the A bin (9
a) Alternatively, the tripper (60) is moved by inputting the bin number of the B bin (9b) as the code number, and during this movement, as shown in Fig. 9, the arrow (f) as well as changing it to a horizontal one,
The code number is displayed at the "rice" mark position, and the bin number is not displayed within the square frame, but when the movement is completed, the bin number is displayed within the square frame as shown in Figure 10. The ff+ arrow is returned to the vertical direction. Note that the driving images (64bl (64cl) shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 are also similar to the aforementioned image (64
It is provided in the same way as in a), and its detailed explanation will be omitted.

This embodiment is configured as described above, and the following is the 11th
The computer image as shown in FIG. 5 (
This operation will be explained while operating the cargo receiving section fil while looking at 64a).

The raw paddy received in hopper A f2a) or hopper B f2bl of the hoppers (2) is stored in a storage bin (
9) When automatically loading into A bin (9a) or B bin (9b), switch the switch (59) to automatic and select the receiving/departing location on the image (64al). If you want to put raw paddy into the A bin (9a), move the cursor on the screen to the "Rice" mark on (gl) in "Consignment receiving operation section A", and enter the destination station number corresponding to the destination in fc.
l Select from "○" to "9" of the operation keys (17)
Input this using the numerical keys (57al).

As a result, the destination is displayed in text as "A Bin Row" within the rectangular frame of (g), and is automatically displayed within this rectangular frame (a red light is displayed inside the arrow frame of fl. The three-way input switching valve (66) of the elevator A (1a) of the input elevator (7) switches to the A bin (9a) side, and when the tripper (60) is in automatic operation, the empty state is selected. Move to the bin (9a) position and remove the tripper (60).
) waits. Then, A from the input side near the bottle (9a).
Top conveyor (8) and loading elevator (on the bin (9a) side)
7) The cargo receiving elevator (4) and the cargo receiving conveyor (3) are activated in sequence at fixed time delays, and hopper A (2) is activated.
Raw paddy inside the al is discharged. Then the bottle (9a
), the receiving conveyor (3), receiving elevator (4), and loading elevator (7) are activated in the reverse order of startup.
) and the top conveyor (8) are stopped in this order,
The display of the characters (cl (fl (gl) and the red light in the image f64al is canceled.The drive may be manually operated and the drive may be stopped only when a key is operated.In addition, if the hopper A [2al to A bottle (9a
), this is prohibited by displaying a red light on the item number of another process fcl that overlaps with this process.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 11 and 13, A-bin (9a
) or when discharging raw paddy in B bin (9b), A
For bin (9a), either loading elevator A (7a) or discharging elevator (12), or bin B (9b)
In the case of
12), and A bin (9a)
Alternatively, when the elevator (7a) (7b) (121) is selected by the switch (62) in the B bin (9b), the selected image is displayed in the "A or B discharge operation section" (f) on the image (64al). Elevator f7al (7bl
(Display 121 as a character, then move the cursor to the "US" mark position of fgl (select the destination from the cl item, and enter this destination station number as a number between rOJ and "9" of the operation key (57)) When inputting with key (57al), same as above (
The destination is displayed in text within the rectangular frame of g), and a red light is displayed inside this rectangular frame and within the arrow frame of ffl. At the same time, a switching valve (
651 (671 etc. are switched according to the destination, and the elevators and conveyors in the middle of the process on the destination side are sequentially driven from the destination side wither to discharge the raw paddy in the bin (9a) or (9b), After that, when all the raw paddy from the bin (9a) or (9b) is sent to the desired destination such as the dryer (l4), the driving of the elevator and conveyor during this process is stopped, and the image (64al) is c) ffl (
The display of the gl character and the red light is canceled.

In this way, when sending paddy to each destination from the hopper (2), storage bin (9), dryer (14), etc., the arrival station number on the screen corresponding to each destination can be entered using the computer's operation key (
57), it is possible to automatically convey the information by inputting the information using the 57), which eliminates the need to install a large number of push button switches as in the past, and reduces costs.
Operational aspects can be simplified. Furthermore, since the driving image can be processed by software, it is easy to change the character display and color signals.

Furthermore, even if specifications of automatic work processes change or plant expansion occurs, operational images can be easily adjusted using software, eliminating the hassle of having to cut panels each time.

In addition, you can also select operations for various work processes from rOJ.
Since it is only necessary to directly input the numerical value of ``9'', the operation is simple and the occurrence of erroneous operations can be prevented.

"Effects of the Invention" As is clear from the above embodiments, the present invention selects one transport process from a plurality of transport processes connecting a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations to transport an object. In the means configured as above, the operation image means (64) has a selection command function for selecting one transport process from a plurality of transport processes, and a selection display function for displaying only the operation guide corresponding to the selected transport process. This makes it possible to perform simple and reliable conveyance operation by operating the computer keyboard while looking at the operation image on the computer screen, and as a result, the installation of numerous push buttons becomes unnecessary. In addition to improving economic efficiency, it is possible to simplify the operation surface, and during transport work, only the operation guide corresponding to the transport process that is actually used is displayed, so the operator is not confused. It has remarkable effects such as being able to perform safe and reliable operations without feeling it, improving operability.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a cargo receiving control circuit diagram, Figure 2 is a plan view of the entire facility, Figure 3 is an illustration of the work process, Figure 4 is an illustration of the operation section, and Figures 5 to 7 are CRT screens. 8 to 10 are explanatory views of the same parts, FIG. 11 is an explanatory view of the receiving process, FIG. 12 is a flowchart of the receiving operation, and FIG. 13 is a flowchart of discharging the bin.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a means for transporting an object by selecting one transport process from a plurality of transport processes connecting a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations, one transport process is selected from the plurality of transport processes. An image-based operation control device comprising an operation image means having a selection command function and a selection display function for displaying only the operation guide corresponding to the selected transport process.