37 results about "Distributed manufacturing" patented technology

Computerized scheduling methods and computerized scheduling systems according to exemplary embodiments. A computerized scheduling method may be stored in a memory and executed on one or more processors. The method may include defining a main multi-machine scheduling problem as a plurality of single machine scheduling problems; independently solving the plurality of single machine scheduling problems thereby calculating a plurality of near optimal single machine scheduling problem solutions; integrating the plurality of near optimal single machine scheduling problem solutions into a main multi-machine scheduling problem solution; and outputting the main multi-machine scheduling problem solution.

A distributed manufacturing and distribution process for lottery tickets is disclosed. The manufacturing/vending system comprises a centralized ticket manufacturing controller located at a centralized location and one or more vending devices located at remote sites. Each vending device is operatively coupled for communication with the centralized ticket manufacturing controller, normally via a network connection. Each vending devices is further equipped with a printer and ticket media, so that a customer is able to purchase on-demand tickets from vending device in communication with the centralized ticket manufacturing controller. Additionally, the vending devices may be configured as electronic aid to display the results of the purchased lottery tickets in entertaining ways to the customer.

The invention discloses a programmable control method of a reconfigurable industrial robot in a distributed manufacturing environment. An editing module, a model conversion module, a deployment module, a communication module, an IEC 61499 operating environment, a robot control instruction execution module, a servo drive module and a robot are in successive telecommunication connection. The deployment module is in telecommunication connection with a monitoring module which is connected with the editing module. The communication module is in telecommunication connection with the monitoring module. According to the invention, a graphical programming language conforming to the international standard is adopted to replace a dedicated robot controller programming language based on text; the efficiency of a development process and the portability of a control program are improved; based on a modular operating environment and a standardized management command, the on-line dynamic reconstruction of the industrial robot control program can be realized; and the flexibility of a robot controller is improved.

In a manufacturing system that has a plurality of sheet fabrication machines, to enhance the efficiency of the system, there are provided a plurality of databases each for storing particular data relating to the machines, the types of materials to be used, the tooling of the machines, etc. of the system. When a multi-dimensional model of a component part to be produced by the system is input to the system, selective data is retrieved from the various databases so that at least one machine of the plurality of machines of the system is selected to produce the part from a worksheet of a chosen material. Concurrently, or shortly thereafter, a NC part program for programming the selected machine to execute the necessary operations in accordance with a flat drawing generated from the multi-dimensional model to fabricate the component part is generated based on selective data retrieved from the databases. With the NC part program, the selected machine performs the operations necessary for producing the component part from the sheet stock material chosen for the component part. If there are multiple component parts to be produced in the same production run, the system would sort the different parts and arrange for the ordered fabrication of the different parts by respective selected machines equipped with corresponding appropriate NC programs to eliminate any potential bottleneck or conflicts that may arise due to the fabrication of multiple parts by multiple machines during the same production run.

The invention provides a collaborative scheduling method of high-end equipment manufacturing process, based on a hybrid differential genetic algorithm. The collaborative scheduling method includes thesteps: obtaining hybrid differential evolution and genetic algorithm parameters; defining Q chromosomes, wherein each chromosome includes a plurality of genes to initialize a population vector; performing code correction operation based on the Q chromosomes; according to the corrected gene, arranging workpieces to each manufacturer for production processing, and calculating the manufacturing spanof each scheme; screening the chromosome with the smallest fitness value from the Q chromosomes, and obtaining the current global optimal solution gbest; updating the population vector by using Bernoulli crossover operation; and updating the population vector by means of an immigration strategy until the global optimal solution gbest is output as the optimal height scheme. The collaborative scheduling method of high-end equipment manufacturing process, based on a hybrid differential genetic algorithm can successfully solve the collaborative scheduling problem of production and transportationin the distributed manufacturing process, and is beneficial to improving the overall efficiency and service level of the production system.

The invention discloses an information security management module of a remote control intelligent electric energy meter, which belongs to a management assistance device of the remote control intelligent electric energy meter. The information security management module comprises a processor, a first data interface, a second data interface and a FLASH memorizer, wherein the processor is respectively accessed to the first data interface, the second data interface and the FLASH memorizer. The information security management module disclosed by the invention is subjected to identity authentication while being subjected to data exchange with an electricity selling management system through a data transmission module, the legality of communication between the information security management module and the electricity selling management system can be ensured, and a terminal main controller of the remote control intelligent electric energy meter can be in communication with the outside just by means of the information security management module; and meanwhile, the information security management module disclosed by the invention has a simple structure, can be embedded in remote control intelligent electric energy meters of various types, can be compatible with the terminal main controller of the remote control intelligent electric energy meter through various communication transmission technologies and bus interfaces and can be seamlessly accessed to a power supply management system, distributed manufacturing and unified management of the remote control intelligent electric energy meter can be realized, and the application range is wide.

An integrated process management system particularly suited for an environment in which multiple vendors must interact to cooperatively deliver products. The invention uses a preferably centralized process controller running on a computer. Discrete items or steps in the product manufacturing and delivery processes are given unique identifiers. The unique identifiers may assume many forms. For physical components, such as containers of raw materials, the identifier can be a tamper-resistant label containing a unique alphanumeric sequence. The identifiers are used to track the performance of each defined step in the process.

A mobile platform including an extruder for melting and extruding materials for producing lightweight, compostable or biobased foams for various expandable materials. A mobile platform is described including a screw extruder for processing poly meric material, a housing with a longitudinal bore in which an extruder screw is coaxially fitted for rotation around an axis of the screw to advance the polymeric material through the bore by threads on the screw. A feed hopper, PLA hoist/feeder, standard EPS machine equipped with electric heating and related equipment are also provided on the mobile platform. Distributed manufacturing of low density protective packaging, insulation panels and thermal insulators is also described.

The invention provides a cloud-side collaborative and flexible distributed manufacturing management and control method and a software system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: a cloud service subsystem provides software service required by business for a user; one distributed edge end service subsystem corresponds to one equipment unit; the distributed edge end service subsystem maps data model construction of the corresponding equipment unit, and the data model construction comprises equipment data mapping and equipment business function logic mapping; the software service of the cloud service subsystem sends business requirements to task management in a task form, the business requirements are stored in a task pool of the task management, the task management is combined with a production scheduling algorithm to screen tasks in the task pool, and the tasks are split and sent to the corresponding distributed edge end service subsystems according to needs; and the distributed edge end service subsystem controls the corresponding equipment units based on the received tasks. According to the invention, production control is realized by scheduling and monitoring the edge end at the cloud end, and flexible production control with stronger adaptability and better universality is realized.

The invention discloses a distributed manufacturing system based on a universal embedded industrial control computer, and an implementation method for the distributed manufacturing system. The system comprises the universal embedded industrial control computer, a material processing system, a material conveying system and an information interaction system. The system solves problems that a conventional flexible manufacturing system is relatively fixed in production line and is not liable to be extended after building, and can add any equipment conveniently in a production process. Moreover, the material processing system and the material conveying system have the decision making function, and can communicate with each other, thereby changing the current situation that an upper management machine of the conventional flexible manufacturing system always controls processing equipment and conveying equipment. The system is enabled to be suitable for small-batch and multi-variety mixed production model.

The invention discloses an accelerometer based on artificial intelligence design and distributed manufacturing. Big data sets in one-to-one correspondence between geometric parameters and response results of a device by using a simulation method; the big data sets are respectively fed into a bidirectional artificial intelligence network for training; a three-dimensional model is constructed according to the geometrical parameters obtained by the reverse retrieval; a three-dimensional printer which is controlled and managed by a cloud computing platform is used for manufacturing, and the cloudcomputing platform can provide various materials at the same time; a mechanical structure of the device is made of an insulating material; electrodes and leads of the device are manufactured by conductive materials to be interconnected, a temporary supporting structure of a three-dimensional structure is manufactured by sacrificial materials capable of being selectively removed, the supporting structure is selectively removed after integrated manufacturing is completed to obtain the complete device, the design and manufacturing difficulty is lowered, the design and manufacturing period is shortened, and the personalized and intelligent manufacturing is achieved.

The invention provides a cooperative scheduling method for distributed manufacturing and multi-mode transportation of high-end equipment, and relates to the technical field of task scheduling. According to the invention, distributed manufacturing, learning effects, multiple transportation modes and production and transportation collaboration are combined together, and learning effects of factories distributed at different positions in the production process and multiple transportation modes of the transportation process are considered in the classical production and transportation collaboration problem, so the research content is closer to the actual production environment, and the adaptability of the obtained scheduling scheme is improved.

In a method of scheduling of processes at distributed and interacting manufacturing sites, a potential availability of predictive pairings of materials and work machines processing the materials over a predetermined period of time is determined for a plurality of manufacturing sites. The potential availability data of the predictive pairings is recorded. The method senses what materials and work machines are available in real-time, and records the real-time availability data of sensed materials and work machines. The real-time availability data is compared with the potential availability data of predictive pairings. In case of a discrepancy, the method determines for each manufacturing site local pairings of materials and work machines processing the materials, and processes the local pairings.

The invention provides a service composition candidate set construction method and system, and relates to the technical field of distributed manufacturing system information integration. The method comprises the steps that clustering index information in a specific service is collected; similarity degree calculating is carried out on the clustering index information to acquire a number of abstract services; abstract access information in each abstract service is calculated, and the similarity degree of the abstract access information is calculated; an abstract service network is constructed; and searching is carried out in the abstract service network according to task requirements to acquire a service composition candidate set. According to the invention, the efficiency, the adaptability, the operability and the convenience of service composition candidate set construction can be improved.

An apparatus for a distributed manufacturing plant that allows direct, economical production of transportation fuels and/or chemicals at remote sites is described. The production plant employs two primary integrated systems consisting of a syngas generator and a catalytic process that are used to directly produce fuels and chemicals. The syngas generator utilizes oxygen anions, produced from a ceramic membrane system, to generate high quality syngas directly at pressures of about 100-600 psia. The tail gas and water containing hydroxyl-alkanes from the catalytic process are recycled into the syngas generator, in automatically controlled proportions, to regulate the hydrogen to carbon monoxide within the preferred H₂/CO stoichiometric range of about 1.8-2.4. The primary products produced directly from the plant include reformulated gasoline blendstocks, #1 diesel fuels, and #2 diesel fuels.

The invention discloses a marine diesel engine heavy part manufacturability three-level optimization method based on feature-resource knowledge. The method comprises the following steps that 1, machining features of marine diesel engine heavy parts are classified; 2, completing feature recognition based on a surface and rule processing feature recognition algorithm; 3, obtaining size and precisioninformation from the part three-dimensional model, and establishing a machining meta-information model; 4, creating a structural manufacturability rule knowledge base; 5, establishing a processing and manufacturing capability model and a knowledge base; 6, proposing a distributed manufacturing environment optimization method based on a genetic algorithm; and 7, establishing a verification platform, and outputting a three-level manufacturability optimization scheme and an evaluation report. The manufacturability three-level optimization method provided by the invention is progressive layer bylayer, fully considers difficulties in actual processing of marine diesel engine heavy parts, has good practicability and expansibility, and can effectively discover defects existing in design, so that the product development period is shortened, and the cost is saved.

The supply chain process described herein offers a business-ready original equipment manufacturer (OEM) blockchain supply chain and part procurement platform, with modular ERP value added solutions. This process is designed to resolve a multitude of longstanding inefficiencies for procurement and IT departments in the manufacturing and supply chain process, allowing procurement departments get precision parts faster and cheaper, suppliers to stay busy and profitable, and OEM IT teams to gain a powerful new tool to assist with digital transformation in the part supply chain lifecycle from procurement to recall while procuring from Tier-agnostic suppliers. This process merges the industrial manufacturing industry best practices workflow, to deliver the functionality and benefits of commercialized blockchain technology to large manufacturers and OEMs. The use of a distributed manufacturing workflow with the integration of distributed ledger technology in this process fosters convenience, cost-control, and flexibility for distributed OEM parts manufacturing networks as well as optimized security, supplier verification, supplier smart contract, part authentication and part traceability.