CN116700136A - NC program automatic management method, device, storage medium and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an NC program automatic management method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device. The NC program automatic management method includes: acquiring process information; determining NC programs corresponding to the procedures based on the procedure information; downloading the NC program to an upper computer associated with a machine tool; adjusting internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information; and uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool. According to the technical scheme, through automatic inquiry and downloading of the NC program and adjustment of internal parameters, the efficiency and accuracy of configuring the NC program by the machine tool are realized, and the production efficiency is improved.

Description

NC program automatic management method, device, storage medium and electronic equipment

technical field

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of numerical control machining, in particular to a method, device, storage medium and electronic equipment for automatic management of NC programs.

Background technique

Machining is the most extensive and basic manufacturing process of products or parts (workpieces). It takes the machine tool as the main body, and completes the processing of the workpiece by configuring the NC program in the machine tool to make the machine tool move.

In the actual production process, the operator needs to compare the product information, workpiece information, process information and other information, find the corresponding NC program on the server according to the above information, copy it to the local folder of the device, and then open the device software To call the NC program to make the machine tool process the workpiece. The above-mentioned process of manually finding programs and calling programs is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also error-prone.

Contents of the invention

In order to solve the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides an automatic NC program management method, device, storage medium and electronic equipment to realize automatic query, download and internal parameter adjustment of NC programs, thereby realizing the efficiency of configuring NC programs on machine tools And accuracy, improve production efficiency.

The present disclosure provides a method for automatically managing NC programs, including:

Obtain process information;

determining an NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information;

Download the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool;

adjusting internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information;

Upload the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

In some embodiments, obtaining process information includes:

In response to the user's code scanning operation, obtain the unique identification code of the process;

Based on the unique identification code of the process, query the process information.

In some embodiments, before determining the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information, the method further includes:

Based on the process information, it is judged whether the process satisfies the processing conditions of the process;

If the process satisfies the processing conditions of the process, the NC program corresponding to the process is determined based on the process information.

In some embodiments, before downloading the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool, the method further includes:

Judging whether the preset downloading conditions of the NC program are met;

If the preset downloading condition of the NC program is satisfied, the NC program is downloaded to the host computer associated with the machine tool.

In some embodiments, the process information includes the workpiece drawing number; the preset downloading conditions include at least one of the following conditions:

The drawing number of the workpiece is consistent with the internal drawing number of the machine tool;

The equipment category information currently maintained by the machine tool is consistent with the equipment category information noted in the NC program sheet;

In the case that the NC program sheet is associated with other drawings, the version numbers of the other drawings marked in the NC program sheet are consistent with the latest version numbers of the other drawings in the server.

In some embodiments, uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool includes:

The adjusted NC program is uploaded to the machine tool according to the locally configured suffix name of the uploadable machine tool.

In some embodiments, the method also includes:

Upload the workpiece information of the workpiece to be processed to the machine tool.

The present disclosure provides an automatic NC program management device, including:

A process information acquisition module, used to acquire process information;

An NC program determination module, configured to determine the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information;

NC program download module, for downloading the NC program to the upper computer associated with the machine tool;

An NC program parameter adjustment module, configured to adjust internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information;

The NC program upload module is used for uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

The present disclosure also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where the computer-readable storage medium stores a program or an instruction, and the program or instruction causes a computer to execute the steps of any one of the above-mentioned methods.

The present disclosure also provides an electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory for storing one or more programs or instructions;

The processor is used to execute the steps of any one of the above methods by invoking the programs or instructions stored in the memory.

Compared with the prior art, the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure have the following advantages:

The technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can automatically query the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information, and then download the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool, and process the NC program through the host computer to obtain the NC program according to the properties of the machine tool. Configure information and adjust the internal parameters of the NC program to meet the processing needs of the machine tool, so that the NC program can accurately match the workpiece and avoid processing errors. In this way, the disclosed technical solution realizes the efficiency and accuracy of configuring the NC program on the machine tool through the automatic query and download of the NC program and the adjustment of internal parameters, and improves the production efficiency.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, for those of ordinary skill in the art, In other words, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without paying creative labor.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an NC program automatic management method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an NC program automatic management device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

In order to more clearly understand the above objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure, the solutions of the present disclosure will be further described below. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments of the present disclosure and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other.

In the following description, many specific details are set forth in order to fully understand the present disclosure, but the present disclosure can also be implemented in other ways than described here; obviously, the embodiments in the description are only some of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and Not all examples.

Fig. 1 is a flow chart of an NC program automatic management method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. This method is applicable to the situation of automatically configuring NC programs for machine tools. The method can be executed by an automatic NC program management device, and the automatic NC program management device can be realized by means of software and/or hardware. As shown in Figure 1, the method includes the following steps:

S110. Obtain process information.

Wherein, the process information is the process information of the workpiece to be processed, including workpiece information and workpiece processing information. In this embodiment, the process information can be obtained by inputting, or by scanning codes. Preferably, in an example, in order to obtain process information efficiently and accurately, the process information is obtained by scanning codes. Correspondingly, obtaining the process information includes: responding to the user's code scanning operation, obtaining a unique identification code of the process; and querying the process information based on the unique identification code of the process. Specifically, the workpiece process barcode or workpiece barcode containing the unique identification code of the process is pre-made, and the barcode of the workpiece process or workpiece barcode is scanned with a code scanner to identify the unique identification code of the process; the unique identification code of the process is queried in the enterprise ERP system according to the unique identification code of the process Identify the process information corresponding to the code, so as to obtain the process information of the workpiece to be processed. Optionally, the process information can be displayed through the host computer for users to view and proofread.

S120. Determine the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information.

Each NC program has NC program information representing the process information. After obtaining the process information, the NC program information can be queried from the database. When the queried NC program information represents the obtained process information, the corresponding The NC program is an NC program corresponding to the process indicated by the process information.

It can be understood that the process information acquired in this embodiment is unique, but the process information may correspond to one or more NC programs.

S130. Download the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool.

Specifically, the machine tool communicates with the host computer, that is, the machine tool and the host computer establish an association relationship. After the host computer determines the NC program, it downloads the NC program from the server and stores the NC program in a specified directory. The NC program at this time is a set of NC programs suitable for batch workpieces, that is, a set of general NC programs that can be executed by the machine tool. For different workpiece processing parameters, the internal parameters of the NC program are also different. Therefore, the NC program It cannot be directly downloaded to the machine tool for use. It is necessary to adjust the internal parameters of the NC program to meet the processing requirements of the machine tool, and then upload the adjusted NC program to the machine tool. Based on this, in this embodiment, the NC program is downloaded to the host computer first, so as to adjust the internal parameters of the NC program. It can be understood that if the NC program downloaded to the host computer can be directly used by the machine tool, the NC program can be uploaded to the machine tool after being downloaded to the host computer. Specifically, whether it is necessary to adjust the internal parameters of the downloaded NC program is set by the user on the machine tool configuration interface. Optionally, when the NC program is stored in a specified directory, the directory can be automatically opened for users to view. In addition, when the downloaded NC program is a compressed package, it can be automatically decompressed.

S140. Adjust internal parameters of the NC program in response to the machine tool attribute configuration information.

Specifically, the attribute configuration information of the machine tool includes the processing parameters of the workpiece to be processed. Correspondingly, the internal parameters of the NC program completely correspond to the processing parameters, and then adjust the internal parameters of the NC program based on the processing parameters so that the machine tool operates based on the internal parameters. , to achieve precise machining of the workpiece. For example, the workpiece to be processed is a tool, and the corresponding processing parameters are movement parameters. Correspondingly, the internal parameters of the NC program executed by the machine tool to control the movement of the tool are adjusted to the configured movement parameters, so that the machine tool controls the movement of the tool based on the movement parameters .

S150. Upload the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

Usually, the program executed by the machine tool will be stored in a file format that the machine tool can recognize. Therefore, in this embodiment, the adjusted NC program is uploaded to the machine tool according to the suffix name of the locally configured uploadable machine tool, so that the machine tool can recognize and execute The NC program realizes the machining of the workpiece.

In summary, the NC program automatic management method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can automatically query the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information, and then download the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool, and execute the NC program through the host computer. Processing, to configure the information according to the properties of the machine tool, adjust the internal parameters of the NC program to meet the processing needs of the machine tool, make the NC program accurately match the workpiece, and avoid processing errors. In this way, the disclosed technical solution realizes the efficiency and accuracy of configuring the NC program on the machine tool through the automatic query and download of the NC program and the adjustment of internal parameters, and improves the production efficiency.

In some embodiments, before determining the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information, the method further includes: based on the process information, judging whether the process satisfies the processing conditions of the process; if the processing conditions of the process are met, then determining the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information .

In this solution, the process processing conditions can be that the process has program download and processing requirements, which can specifically represent the unfinished process and/or the process that can be processed due to the start-up conditions. Correspondingly, only when it is determined based on the process information that the process has program download and processing requirements, that is, when the current process is an unfinished process and/or a process that can be processed with the conditions for starting, the NC corresponding to the process will be further determined based on the process information program; and when it is determined based on the process information that the process does not meet the program download and processing requirements, that is, when the current process is a completed process or a process that cannot be processed due to lack of starting conditions, the operation of the NC program automatic management method is ended and the process is prompted abnormal. In this way, completed processes or processes that cannot be processed due to lack of start-up conditions are excluded to reduce unnecessary waste of resources. In addition, when a process abnormality is prompted, the detailed reason for the process abnormality can be indicated.

In some embodiments, before downloading the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool, the method further includes: judging whether the preset allowable download condition of the NC program is satisfied; if the preset allowable download condition of the NC program is satisfied, the The NC program is downloaded to the host computer associated with the machine tool.

In this solution, the preset allowable download condition is a judgment condition for whether to allow NC program download, which is used to ensure the accuracy of the NC program. In this solution, before downloading the NC program to the upper computer associated with the machine tool, it is judged whether the preset allowable download condition of the NC program is met, and only when the preset allowable download condition of the NC program is met, the NC program download to the The operation in the upper computer associated with the machine tool; otherwise, the operation of the NC program automatic management method is ended, that is, the NC program is not allowed to be downloaded. In this way, unnecessary download operations can be avoided.

Specifically, the process information includes the workpiece drawing number; the preset allowed downloading conditions include at least one of the following situations:

The drawing number of the workpiece is consistent with the internal drawing number of the machine tool;

The equipment category information currently maintained by the machine tool is consistent with the equipment category information noted in the NC program sheet;

When the NC program sheet is associated with other drawings, the version numbers of other drawings marked in the NC program sheet are consistent with the latest version numbers of other drawings in the server.

In the above cases, when the drawing number of the workpiece is consistent with the internal drawing number of the machine tool, the accuracy of matching between the workpiece and the machine tool can be ensured; when the equipment category information currently maintained by the machine tool is consistent with the equipment category information noted in the NC program sheet, it can be ensured Accuracy of machine tool and NC program matching; when the version numbers of other drawings marked in the NC program sheet are consistent with the latest version numbers of other drawings in the server, it can ensure that the NC program is the latest version, and ensure the precise matching between the workpiece and the NC program. And the safety of workpiece processing.

In addition, in some embodiments, the method further includes: uploading the workpiece information of the workpiece to be processed to the machine tool. In this way, before the machine tool executes the NC program, the workpiece information can be further verified to further ensure the accuracy of the NC program executed by the machine tool.

Finally, the embodiments of the present disclosure can also perform some personalized configurations on the host computer according to requirements, wherein the personalized configurations include but are not limited to: whether to automatically download and upload the NC program setting; binding verification between the machine tool and the host computer; machine tool status Verification; setting of NC program automatic cleaning function; setting of whether the machine tool is automatically processed; setting of whether to delete machine tool files; setting of whether to automatically print files.

Corresponding to the NC program automatic management method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the embodiment of the present disclosure also provides an NC program automatic management device. Fig. 2 is a structural block diagram of the NC program automatic management device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Fig. 2, the NC program automatic management device includes:

Process information acquisition module 21, used to acquire process information;

NC program determining module 22, for determining the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information;

The NC program download module 23 is used to download the NC program to the upper computer associated with the machine tool;

The NC program parameter adjustment module 24 is used to adjust the internal parameters of the NC program in response to the machine tool attribute configuration information;

The NC program upload module 25 is used for uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

In some embodiments, the process information acquisition module 21 is specifically used for:

In response to the user's code scanning operation, obtain the unique identification code of the process;

Query process information based on the unique identification code of the process.

In some embodiments, the device also includes a process judgment module, configured to:

Before determining the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information, judge whether the process meets the process processing conditions based on the process information;

If the process satisfies the processing conditions of the process, the NC program corresponding to the process is determined based on the process information.

In some embodiments, the device also includes an NC program judging module for:

Before downloading the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool, determine whether the preset downloading conditions of the NC program are met;

If the preset downloading conditions of the NC program are met, the NC program is downloaded to the upper computer associated with the machine tool.

In some embodiments, the process information includes the workpiece drawing number; the preset downloading conditions include at least one of the following conditions:

The drawing number of the workpiece is consistent with the internal drawing number of the machine tool;

The equipment category information currently maintained by the machine tool is consistent with the equipment category information noted in the NC program sheet;

When the NC program sheet is associated with other drawings, the version numbers of other drawings marked in the NC program sheet are consistent with the latest version numbers of other drawings in the server.

In some embodiments, the NC program upload module 25 is specifically used for:

Upload the adjusted NC program to the machine tool according to the suffix name of the locally configured uploadable machine tool.

In some embodiments, the device also includes a workpiece information upload module for:

Upload the workpiece information of the workpiece to be processed to the machine tool.

The NC program automatic management device disclosed in the above embodiments can execute the NC program automatic management methods disclosed in the above embodiments, and has the same or corresponding beneficial effects. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

An embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where the computer-readable storage medium stores a program or an instruction, and the program or instruction causes a computer to execute the steps of any one of the above methods.

Exemplarily, the program or instruction causes the computer to execute a method for automatically managing NC programs, the method comprising:

Obtain process information;

Determine the NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information;

Download the NC program to the host computer associated with the machine tool;

Adjusting internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information;

Upload the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

Optionally, when the computer-executable instructions are executed by a computer processor, they can also be used to implement the technical solution of any of the above-mentioned automatic management methods for NC programs provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, so as to achieve corresponding beneficial effects.

Through the above description of the implementation, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented by means of software and necessary general-purpose hardware, and of course can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases the former is better implementation. Based on this understanding, the essence of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure or the part that contributes to the prior art can be embodied in the form of software products, and the computer software products can be stored in computer-readable storage media, such as computer floppy disk, read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), flash memory (FLASH), hard disk or optical disc, etc., including several instructions to make a computer device (which can be personal computer, server, or network device, etc.), execute the method described in each embodiment of the present disclosure.

An embodiment of the present disclosure also provides an electronic device, including: one or more processors; a memory for storing one or more programs or instructions; Steps of a method to achieve corresponding beneficial effects.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 3 , the electronic device includes one or more processors 301 and memory 302 .

The processor 301 may be a central processing unit (CPU) or other form of processing unit having data processing capability and/or instruction execution capability, and may control other components in the electronic device to perform desired functions.

Memory 302 may include one or more computer program products, which may include various forms of computer-readable storage media, such as volatile memory and/or non-volatile memory. The volatile memory may include, for example, random access memory (RAM) and/or cache memory (cache). The non-volatile memory may include, for example, a read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, a flash memory, and the like. One or more computer program instructions may be stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and the processor 301 may execute the program instructions to implement the NC program automatic management method of the above-mentioned embodiments of the present disclosure, and/ or other desired functionality. Various contents such as input signal, signal component, noise component, etc. may also be stored in the computer-readable storage medium.

In an example, the electronic device may further include: an input device 303 and an output device 304, and these components are interconnected through a bus system and/or other forms of connection mechanisms (not shown).

In addition, the input device 303 may also include, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, and the like.

The output device 304 can output various information to the outside, including determined distance information, direction information, and the like. The output device 304 may include, for example, a display, a speaker, a printer, a communication network and remote output devices connected thereto, and the like.

Of course, for simplicity, only some of the components related to the present disclosure in the electronic device are shown in FIG. 3 , and components such as bus, input/output interface, etc. are omitted. In addition, the electronic device may also include any other suitable components according to specific applications.

It should be noted that in this article, relative terms such as "first" and "second" are only used to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not necessarily require or imply these No such actual relationship or order exists between entities or operations. Furthermore, the term "comprises", "comprises" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article, or apparatus comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, but also includes elements not expressly listed. other elements of or also include elements inherent in such a process, method, article, or device. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article or apparatus comprising said element.

The above descriptions are only specific implementation manners of the present disclosure, so that those skilled in the art can understand or implement the present disclosure. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure will not be limited to the embodiments described herein, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims (10)

1. An NC program automatic management method, comprising:

acquiring process information;

determining NC programs corresponding to the procedures based on the procedure information;

downloading the NC program to an upper computer associated with a machine tool;

adjusting internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information;

and uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining process information comprises:

responding to the code scanning operation of a user, and acquiring a process unique identification code;

and inquiring the process information based on the process unique identification code.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before determining an NC program corresponding to a process based on the process information, the method further comprises:

judging whether the process meets the process processing conditions or not based on the process information;

and if the process meets the process processing conditions, determining an NC program corresponding to the process based on the process information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to downloading the NC program to a host computer associated with a machine tool, the method further comprises:

judging whether a preset download permission condition of the NC program is met;

and if the preset allowable downloading condition of the NC program is met, downloading the NC program to an upper computer associated with the machine tool.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the process information comprises a workpiece drawing number; the preset download permission condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:

the workpiece figure number is consistent with the figure number in the machine tool;

the equipment category information currently maintained by the machine tool is consistent with the equipment category information of remarks in the NC program list;

and under the condition that other drawings are associated with the NC program list, the version numbers of the other drawings marked in the NC program list are consistent with the latest version numbers of the other drawings in the server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool comprises:

and uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool according to the suffix name of the locally configured uploading machine tool.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

and uploading workpiece information of the workpiece to be processed to the machine tool.

8. An NC program automatic management device, comprising:

the process information acquisition module is used for acquiring process information;

an NC program determining module configured to determine an NC program corresponding to a process based on the process information;

an NC program downloading module for downloading the NC program to an upper computer associated with the machine tool;

an NC program parameter adjustment module for adjusting internal parameters of the NC program in response to machine tool attribute configuration information;

and the NC program uploading module is used for uploading the adjusted NC program to the machine tool.

9. A computer readable storage medium storing a program or instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs or instructions;

the processor is adapted to perform the steps of the method according to any of claims 1 to 7 by invoking a program or instruction stored in the memory.