OLP program structure
Program structure
A manufacturing project, as for example a production line or just an individual work cell, can be pictured as a layout of several manufacturing devices (resources) and their controllers, performing certain manufacturing activities. These manufacturing activities are generated from instructions that are written in programs. These programs then are loaded into the controllers to operate the resources.
A program is the root object and describes the sequence in which a number of tools (can be the same) perform their specific activity on an ordered series of operation groups, including the global definition for approach, link paths and retraction.
An operation group is a collection of individual operation steps. Group specific definitions for approach, link path and retraction are included. The order of operations that are joined in one group describe the sequence, i.e. the tool path, in which the tool will move from operation to operation.
An operation is the specific tool activity, defined by the technology, at a certain path in the 3D environment.
