The disclosure relates to a method for joining metal sheets resting on one another with a variable total thickness by a clinching device comprising at least one punch and a die arranged coaxially to the punch. The punch is controllable by an electronic control unit and movable in an axial direction relative to the die. The metal sheets are arranged in a plane between the punch and the die, and the penetration depth necessary for joining the metal sheets is adjustable. Before joining the metal sheets, the current total thickness is determined with the aid of the control unit and the penetration depth is set depending on the total thickness. The method includes: storing a number of different total thicknesses or total thickness ranges in the control unit, assigning a penetration depth to a total thickness or to a total thickness range, and calibrating the clinching device.

A data processing system, including a cyclic correlation establishing module, a data pattern establishing module, and a data pattern alignment module, is provided. The cyclic correlation establishing module receives a plurality of first sensor data, obtained from a first sensor operation performed on processing devices, and receives a table of processing steps and cyclic procedures. The cyclic correlation establishing module obtains a data correlation of the first sensor data according to the number of sample points in a data cycle of the first sensor data and the table to correct the first sensor data. The data pattern establishing module obtains a plurality of first data pattern features from the first sensor data. The data pattern alignment module aligns a plurality of second sensor data obtained from a second sensor operation performed on the processing devices with the first sensor data according to the first data pattern features.

Lock devices, systems, and methods including an internal mechanism to permit backdriven operation and lost motion operation. In one form, the lock includes an assembly of parts with locating features that assist in those parts being assembled with other parts of the assembly in a single, relative orientation. Further, lost motion may be utilized to accommodate manual displacement of one or more components that can also be displaceable, in some embodiments, via operation of a motor. The lock can also include an internal power source capable of driving electronics used to determine handedness of a door.

In some aspects, the present invention comprises a system and method for optimizing the control scheme used for drilling operations based on the complex and large data sets available in realtime during operation of a wellsite and based on existing model data available at the wellsite for past similar drilling operations. Such optimizations typically require downtime to quantify how the realtime values will factor into the control model, but the present invention allows for such optimization in realtime in a closed-loop system that will reduce the non-productive time associated with reservoir operations.

A system for controlled distribution of components, the system including a vibrating bowl provided with an enclosure having a wall extending right around an axis of revolution of the bowl and in which the components are placed in bulk, and an articulated gripping arm provided to distribute the components to the automatic assembly installation, the vibrating bowl including an ascending helical ramp extending along an internal face of the wall between a base and an upper edge of the vibrating bowl constituting an exit of the ramp, the components being able to travel along this ramp towards a supply platform, particularly a slide, on which at least one component is arranged in advance of its seizure by the articulated gripping arm, the supply platform being connected to the exit and extending above or in the enclosure of the vibrating bowl.

A server is connected to machines that perform cutting machining via a network. A common database shared by the machines is stored in the server, the database includes machining result information used in steps included in a cutting machining process performed by the machine and information on a use frequency of the machining result information. A machining result information presentation request to present machining result information that satisfies cutting conditions input by an operator of the machine is received from the machine. When the machining result information presentation request is received, the machining result information that satisfies the cutting conditions is extracted from the database and is presented to the machine based on the use frequency of the machining result information. A machining program is created based on machining result information selected by the operator among pieces of machining result information from the machine and is presented to the machine.

A processing apparatus includes a processing unit, a control unit, and a temperature detecting unit. The processing unit includes a cutting blade and a spindle assembly, the spindle assembly including a spindle having the cutting blade mounted on a distal end of the spindle and a spindle housing through which the spindle is inserted. A cooling fluid passage is formed in the spindle housing, the cooling fluid passage cooling the spindle assembly, and having one end connected to a cooling fluid supply source and having another end communicating with a cooling fluid outlet of the spindle housing. The temperature detecting unit detects the temperature of the spindle housing. The control unit determines whether a state of cooling of the spindle assembly is normal or abnormal on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit.

A machine includes a linear drive mechanism, a motor configured to drive the linear drive mechanism, a lubrication agent supply pipe through which a lubrication agent is supplied to the linear drive mechanism, a lubrication agent supply device having a pump and configured to supply the lubrication agent to the linear drive mechanism via the lubrication agent supply pipe, and a controller configured to control the linear drive mechanism, wherein the controller changes a supply interval with which the lubrication agent supply device supplies the lubrication agent to the linear drive mechanism, based on one of a load applied on the linear drive mechanism and an amount of a cutting fluid used by the machine.

A robot is moved along a first continuous programmed path with a robot controller executing a learning path control program without performing an operation on a workpiece. The actual movement of the robot along the first continuous programmed path is recorded. The first continuous programmed path is adjusted to create a second programmed path. The robot is moved along the second continuous programmed with the robot controller executing the learning path control program without performing the operation on the workpiece. The actual movement of the robot along the second continuous programmed path is recorded. Traces of the recorded actual movements of the robot along the first continuous programmed path and the second continuous programmed path are displayed.

Lock devices, systems, and methods that can include an internal mechanism to permit backdriven operation and lost motion operation. In one form the lock includes an assembly of parts that includes parts having locating features that that can assist in those parts being assembled with other parts of the assembly in a single, relative orientation. Further, lost motion may be utilized to accommodate manual displacement of one or more components of the can also be displaceable, in at least certain situations, via operation of a motor. The lock can also include an internal power source capable of driving electronics used to determine handedness of a door.