Production line for manufacturing a part of a vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11971702B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US17069878

    申请日:2020-10-14

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A production line for manufacturing a building block, which includes at least one component, the production line including: a central conveyor line; at least one feeding line for feeding the at least one component to the central conveyor line; a manufacturing tool set for processing the at least one component; and a control unit for controlling the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set. The controlling at least one of the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set includes: retrieving an asset-information about the at least one component and/or the manufacturing tool set, conveying the at least one component according to the asset-information by the feeding line to the central conveyor line, retrieving a processing-information and/or a manufacturing tool set information about processing the at least one component, and processing the at least one component by the manufacturing tool set.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATION OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM COMPONENT WITH MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20210405629A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-30

    申请号:US17469908

    申请日:2021-09-09

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A computer system for interoperable data exchange between a plurality of information systems via a digital representation service associated with a digital representation of a physical device with each information system being at least one of an information source and an information consumer regarding data associated with the physical device, the digital representation being a virtual entity replicating data of the physical device and data associated with the device life cycle, includes: at least one digital representation service for the physical device, the at least one digital representation service having: an interface for receiving a request for device related data; a management module for generating and updating the digital representation of the device, the digital representation storing a plurality of data models with each stored data model being associated with a particular information system; and a semantic relations library storing semantic relations between model element types from stored data models.

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