Apparatus and method for automatically generating control instructions for rotary machines

Specifically, it is a device and method for generating control instructions for a rotary machine, said processing stations are arranged on a rotary. The invention thus provides a system that allows the user to create a program code for controlling a rotary machine with a structured menus. Here, in a first menu level a definition of a segment on the rotary based on orbital position parameters is carried out. The orbital parameters can be numbers of degrees, centimeters on the circulation circuit or other equivalent values. In the preferred embodiment, there are numbers of degrees. Thus, a plurality of segments on the rotary can be defined, in which certain functions are then driven. In a second menu level, which is related to the definition of the segment in the first menu level, the functions of the rotary machine, or of the processing stations are determined. Thus, the round-trip propagation can be divided into logical segments, within which the functions are controlled. The functions are selected interactively and selectively through a mask, so that the functions are controlled within the logical segment. On the basis of the logical segmentation as described of the control instructions is then transferred to the machine are generated in the form of control codes.