METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTER AIDED OPTIMIZATION OF AN OCCUPANCY OF MAGAZINE SLOTS BY TOOLS WITHIN AT LEAST ONE TOOL MAGAZINE FOR A MACHINE TOOL

摘要

Provided is a method and device for computer-assisted optimization of the occupancy of magazine spaces by tools within at least one tool magazine for a machine tool, one or more workpieces of a workpiece type being manufactured with the aid of the tools provided by a magazine unit at a provisioning place. A step of the claimed steps of the method described in the description is the optimization of the occupancy of the magazine spaces by tools so that the total waiting time is minimized, wherein the total waiting time is composed of individual waiting times which result in each case from the difference between the detected provisioning period and the detected working step duration if the value of the difference is positive, otherwise the individual waiting time assumes the value zero.