Patent attributes
The present invention provides a tool information display device for a processing machine which can display information on tools installed in appropriate parts of the processing machine, in an easy-to-understand manner. The present invention allows even the identification numbers of installed tools to be checked in an easy-to-understand manner. The present invention provides a tool information display device for a processing machine 101 having tool magazines 5, 6 on each of which a plurality of tools can be installed. The tool information display device includes tool information managing means 33 for managing information on the tools 7 installed on the tool magazines 5, 6. The tool information display device also includes installation status display means 33 for providing a display 50 of installation status of the tools which reproduces installation and arrangement of the tools on the tool magazine 5, 6 in a pseudo manner, in accordance with the information managed by the tool information managing means 33. In the pseudo installation status display 50 for the tools, tool presence information 51 is displayed at positions on the tool magazines 5, 6 at which tools 7 are installed and not at positions on the tool magazines 5, 6 at which no tools 7 are installed. The identification number of each of the tools 7 is displayed in addition to the tool presence information 51.
