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Apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a sheet metal production facility
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Inventors: Hazama, Kensuke; Kask, Kalev; Sakai, Satoshi; Schwalb, Moshe;
Assignee: Amadasoft America, Inc. (La Mirada, CA)
Primary Examiner: Gordon; Paul P.
Assistant Examiner: Garland; Steven R.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
A computer program is provided for developing a bend model of a part to be produced at an intelligent production facility. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosed program, faces of the part are detected based on initial part information, and bendlines of the part are identified based on the detected faces of the part. Further, additional part information is generated by performing a predetermined operation (e.g., a folding operation or an unfolding operation) on the detected faces of the part. The disclosed program also includes other capabilities, such as the capability to perform clean-up operations on initial, 2-D part information and to selectively eliminate part thickness representations in order to facilitate the preparation of a 3-D representation of the part from the modified 2-D part information. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In view of the foregoing, the present invention, through one or more of its various aspects, embodiments and/or specific features or sub-components thereof, is provided to bring about one or more objects and advantages, such as those specifically noted below.
A general object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a factory in order to facilitate the production of components, such as bent sheet metal components.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method that prevents the loss or destruction of critical job information, and that enhances the efficiency in and organization of stored expert knowledge at, for example, a progressive sheet metal production facility.
Another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus and method for logically storing both the design and manufacturing information for each customer's order, so that it may be easily accessed and retrieved from any area in the factory.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information, wherein the job data is stored at a central database or file server in a logical fashion so that it may be easily searched and retrieved from any location throughout the factory.
The job data may provide not only the design and manufacturing information associated with the job, but also the actual bend code for executing the required bending operations.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for searching previous job information, including design and manufacturing information, based on various search criteria.
The search criteria may include, for example, the basic features and attributes of the sheet metal component to be manufactured, so that previous job information relating to an identical or similar part can be utilized to reduce the overall manufacturing time of future jobs
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