Method and device for the computer-aided optimization of tool transporting operations for at least one tool magazine having a number of magazine locations

[0090]According to FIG. 2, the input IN is, as already described, the initial assignment and the target assignment which is to be reached for the tools at the magazine locations P in the magazine R. In this embodiment, both the initial assignment and the target assignment satisfy all the space restrictions. In this context, the following are detected: a quantity of tools, the space requirement for each tool, a quantity of permissible magazine locations which can be occupied by each tool, the (permissible) initial magazine occupancy and therefore the initial magazine location for each tool, the permissible target magazine occupancy and therefore the target magazine locations for at least one subset of the detected quantity of tools for which a tool transporting operation is to be carried out, as well as a quantity of transportation time periods which is respectively required for a movement of the magazine device from one magazine location to another magazine location.

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