125 results about "Manufacturing Factories" patented technology

The invention discloses a multi-device and multi-mode centralized control system which comprises an interaction control end and a device assembly. The interactive control end is configured according to three different control modes of centralized control, independent control and hybrid control, in the centralized control mode, a set of main control unit is configured for all devices, and the main control unit comprises a main control server which is used for operating a main control program and coordinating and controlling operation of all device components; in the independent control mode, each equipment component is provided with a corresponding embedded controller, and the embedded controller comprises an embedded control server which is used for operating a main control program for controlling the corresponding equipment component; in the hybrid control mode, one or more independent devices are provided with embedded controllers, the embedded controllers communicate with the main control server, the device assembly comprises a device body and a driving unit, and the device body is driven by the driving unit to achieve various operation functions. According to the invention, centralized control of multiple devices in a large-scale manufacturing factory can be realized.

An aircraft sub-assembly manufacturing system is arranged over multiple floors of a manufacturing facility. A production line of workstations is provided at locations at both a first floor and a second floor of the facility, each of the workstations being arranged for providing manufacturing steps for the aircraft sub-assembly. Elevator apparatus is arranged to transport the assembled aircraft sub-assembly between the first floor and the second floor of the facility.

The aim of the invention is to define a method that allows the management of a particularly large MES / MOM project to be simplified, which may involve a plurality of manufacturing sites and a plurality of servers that require strict guidance regarding as low as possible to hold patches and update thresholds. According to the invention, this object is achieved by a method for operating a plurality of production plants by means of a manufacturing execution system, said method comprising the following steps: a) providing central computing hardware as a regional hub for running MES software; the MES software can manage a production process running through a plurality of production factories; b) configuring a first manufacturing execution system for a first single plant connected to the regional hub; c) creating a respective manufacturing execution system for each other plant by inheriting all configurations of the first manufacturing execution system to the other manufacturing execution systems; and d) configuring these additional plants with existing solutions in the regional hub over time without the need to reinstall the software of the manufacturing execution system and without the need to reapply some configurations that have been executed in the first plant and / or without the need to stop the system. Therefore, the method provides a better value for a multi-plant solution by reducing TCO. Indeed, the same number of servers required to hosting MES / MOM solutions serving a single manufacturing plant in the prior art can now be used to manage multiple plants (as presented in Figure 1). The set of servers constitutes a single MES / MONM solution distributed environment and is hosted by the same regional hub or at least a single "virtual data center" in the event of selecting a public cloud deployment according to the functionality provided by the cloud provider.

A transport vehicle for transporting an article in a manufacturing factory includes a driving unit which drives along a driving rail, and a hoist unit which is located under the driving unit and supports the article. The hoist unit includes a frame, and a pair of tail plates which is provided on a rear surface of the frame and protrudes rearward.

The invention discloses an automatic welding method, device and equipment, a storage medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of welding automation. According to the method, the three-dimensional point cloud data and the two-dimensional image data of the welding area are collected, the three-dimensional point cloud data and the two-dimensional image data are fused, and the fused image is obtained. The rough welding area is determined through semantic segmentation based on the two-dimensional information contained in the fused image, and the target welding seam is determined in the rough welding area based on the depth information contained in the fused image, so that the precision and robustness of welding seam positioning are remarkably improved by utilizing the characteristics of the fused image; the system can stably operate in a complex factory environment with uneven illumination, strong reflection or partial shielding; and the dependence of the algorithm on environmental conditions is reduced, so that the algorithm is more suitable for the application scene of an actual manufacturing industry factory. And on the basis of more accurate positioning, the welding gun is controlled to weld the target welding seam, and the accuracy of automatic welding can be remarkably improved.

A method and a system for ensuring product quality in a process for producing a product from a material in a manufacturing plant via a software performed by a computer comprising the following steps of Establishing a data pipeline including a data transformation originated from different source systems, like an ERP, LIMS, or Data Historian, to the computer, wherein the data pipeline provides updated datasets to maintain up-to-date parameter information; Preparing the datasets for a multivariate analysis calculation and performing the multivariate analysis calculation via the software, wherein all relevant parameters, like quality parameter, process parameter, sub-suppliers' quality parameters, are included in the calculation; Visualizing the result data of the multivariate analysis calculation as a 2D plot on a display connected to the computer, wherein the software identifies and marks new production batches and reference batches, time series plots for the relevant parameters and principal components, and selected top parameters which contribute to a principal components' deviation from the new production batch; and Performing quality processes and workflows to improve the production process and product quality by using the visualized result data.

The invention discloses a process manufacturing factory material scheduling system based on intelligent agents. The system comprises a central coordination intelligent agent, a plurality of process intelligent agents, a video subsystem and a trolley subsystem. The scheduling method based on the system comprises the following steps: S1, initializing the system; s2, real-time state monitoring; s3, dolly scheduling decision making: the process agent calculates the priority of each transport task according to the priority function; s4, according to the queue capacity of the downstream workshop and the current outlet material quantity, S5, path decision making; s6, returning a path decision; s7, performing global optimization adjustment; s8, performing exception handling and cooperative adjustment; according to the invention, organic combination of local autonomy and global coordination is realized, the real-time response capability of the system is ensured, global optimization is also realized, and compared with traditional centralized control, the system is faster in response; multiple constraint conditions and optimization targets are considered, the average waiting time of materials can be reduced by one third, and the trolley utilization rate can be improved by one fourth.

The present invention discloses a method for wafer bonding, belonging to the field of integrated circuit chip manufacturing. This method successively performs a cleaning process and a baking process in an integrated circuit chip manufacturing factory; the following bonding process is carried out through a wafer bonding device: the manipulator transfer area takes out the wafer from the wafer access area; the wafer ID reader and the wafer pre-aligner read the wafer ID and pre-align the wafer; the alignment and pre-bonding unit aligns and pre-bonds the wafer; the vision inspection area inspects whether there are bonding defects in the wafer pair after pre-bonding. If there are, the debonding unit debonds the wafer pair and then places the wafer in the wafer access area; otherwise, the wafer pair is directly placed in the wafer access area. In the bonding process, the wafer and the wafer pair are transferred through the manipulator transfer area and / or the post manipulator. The present invention optimizes the wafer bonding method, improves the productivity of the bonding process, and the wafer bonding device has a compact structure, a small floor area, and low costs.

The present invention discloses a preparation method of a flue gas bipolar heat exchanger for a radiant tube burner. The three assemblies of an internal fin tube assembly, a flue gas chamber assembly, and an air inlet pipe assembly are independently assembled and welded. After welding, each of them is subjected to airtightness detection. Then, the flue gas chamber assembly is first inserted into the internal fin tube assembly; then, the flue gas chamber assembly is connected to the connecting flange, and the flange of the air inlet pipe assembly is connected to the outside of the connecting flange on the outside of the connecting flange to complete the assembly. The manufacturing process of the present invention is simple and efficient, and the processes are not mutually restrained. The production is flexible and mobile, and the overall process will not be affected by the stagnation of one process; the delivery status of the finished product is flexible and changeable, and it can be assembled in the manufacturing plant and transported to the installation site, or it can be packaged and transported according to the assembly classification, and flexibly assembled at the installation site; the technical key points are clear and controllable, which greatly improves the production efficiency and product quality; the process assembly welding process has high production efficiency, and 5 people / 16 shifts can achieve 100 units.

An information processing apparatus includes: a transaction relationship score calculation unit that calculates an inter-industry transaction relationship score indicating a relevance of a transaction relationship among a plurality of industry types; a component supplier industry-type estimation unit that estimates an industry type of a factory candidate of a supplier on a basis of identification information of a component for a factory candidate of a supplier; an industry type similarity calculation unit that calculates an inter-industry transaction relationship score between an industry type of a factory candidate of a supplier and an industry type of a factory candidate of a supplier estimated by the component supplier industry-type estimation unit; and a component manufacturing factory estimation unit that selects a factory candidate of a supplier on a basis of an inter-industry transaction relationship score calculated by the industry type.

The application discloses a production process of a high-gloss TSPCC steel barrel body coil for environmental protection, breaks the previous cold-rolled commodity coil whole-process technology, and is characterized in that the process comprises the following steps: two steel smelting, hot rolling, acid continuous rolling, cold rolling cover annealing, cold rolling flattening, recoiling, and color coating, so that the cold-rolled commodity coil performance is ensured, and the color-coated commodity coil has rust prevention capability. According to the production process, the commodity coil is recoiled and straightened by using a cover furnace annealing device, a flattening unit and a recoiling device, and then is painted by using a color coating unit, so that the paint spraying process of a tomato paste barrel manufacturer is reduced, and the environmental protection pressure of a barrel manufacturing factory is also reduced.

A system is provided.SOLUTION: A system comprising: means for acquiring real-time data from sensors located in a manufacturing facility; means for filtering, de-noising, and scaling the acquired data; artificial intelligence algorithm means for using the pre-processed data as input to optimize the manufacturing process and detect anomalies; means for controlling robotic equipment based on the output of the artificial intelligence algorithm; and means for monitoring the operation of the entire system in real-time and generating and displaying alerts when anomalies are detected.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A transportation carrier is provided for automated lens manufacturing in a lens manufacturing facility, including: at least one block piece or one block piece receiving section; and an electronic paper display configured to display at least an up-to-date status information of the manufacturing process of the optical elements carried by the transportation carrier that is intelligible for a human operator without use of a reading device, the electronic paper display including a wireless communication module and a memory configured to exchange and to memorize job information and to process information for lenses to be manufactured, in which the electronic paper display is further configured to function as a passive RFID tag with the wireless communication module.

The invention belongs to the technical field of new energy battery material processing, and particularly relates to a new energy battery precursor material drying oven rear section complete intelligent device and process, the new energy battery precursor material drying oven rear section complete intelligent device comprises a packaging steel structure skid-mounted platform, a mixer skid-mounted platform and a pneumatic conveying system, comprising at least five layers of steel structure skid-mounted modules which are connected through bolts, and each layer is provided with an independent equipment unit and a fireproof isolation wall plate. According to the method, installation and debugging are completed in a manufacturing factory, so that the installation and debugging efficiency can be improved, the installation and debugging time is shortened, the installation and debugging time of a customer project site is greatly shortened, the construction period of a project is shortened, and the investment cost is saved.

Embodiments of a system including at least one access node configured to wirelessly transmit and receive signals to and from industrial devices within at least two cells of a cellular communications network deployed within a manufacturing facility; and a computer system. The computer system includes an interface connected to transmit and receive signals to and from the access node; and processing circuitry configured to: define a manufacturing process instance, MPI, identifying manufacturing operations necessary to perform a predetermined manufacturing process; allocate one of more of the industrial devices to the MPI, each allocated industrial device configured to perform at least one of the identified manufacturing operations; and implement an Controller configured to control each of the industrial devices allocated to the MPI to cooperatively perform the predetermined manufacturing process.

The invention provides a ship repair plant area carbon emission modeling and photovoltaic emission reduction evaluation method and system. The ship repair plant area carbon emission modeling and photovoltaic emission reduction evaluation method comprises the steps of processing energy activity data of a target area to obtain actual energy activity data of the target area; constructing a functional region carbon emission evaluation model based on the actual energy activity data of the target region by using a life cycle evaluation method; analyzing the whole life cycle of photovoltaic power generation in the functional area carbon emission evaluation model to obtain the whole life cycle carbon emission of photovoltaic power generation; and completing evaluation of photovoltaic emission reduction environmental benefits according to the full-life-cycle carbon emission. According to the method, regional activity data and a life cycle evaluation (LCA) method are creatively combined and applied to carbon footprint modeling of the ship repairing and manufacturing factory area, and a new method is provided for accurately quantifying factory area carbon emission; a photovoltaic system carbon emission evaluation mechanism with universality is constructed, the mechanism can effectively evaluate photovoltaic emission reduction benefits under different energy structures, and an emission reduction path which is implemented preferentially can be conveniently formulated.

The application discloses a crown block device and a control method thereof. The device comprises a crown block body, a side shifting device and a grabbing device. At least one buffer platform is arranged on the crown block body. The side shifting device is connected with the crown block body. The grabbing device is connected with the side shifting device. The side shifting device drives the grabbing device to move above the buffer platform. At least one buffer platform for storing wafer boxes is arranged on the crown block body. The wafer box is moved and placed on the buffer platform by the side shifting device. In the process of the movement of the crown block, a wafer box can be carried by the grabbing device. Therefore, the crown block can carry multiple wafer boxes in one trip, the carrying capacity of the crown block is greatly improved, and the production capacity of a chip manufacturing factory is improved.

An intermodal-container-based factory for manufacturing building construction components is disclosed. The factory includes a plurality of intermodal containers that have been converted into specialized workstations and arranged into one or more assembly lines. Each workstation includes manufacturing equipment permanently mounted within an intermodal container, where the equipment is configured to fabricate a particular type of building component such as windows, doors, walls, plumbing modules, aluminum panels, or structural frames. The assembly lines are configured to produce different building components in a sequential process, receiving raw materials at a first container, processing intermediate parts through subsequent containers, and outputting completed building components at a final container for installation in a building under construction.

A computing platform is configured to (1) extract first and second source datasets from a first database containing data about food products and a second database containing data about manufacturing processes, respectively, (2) merge the first and second source datasets into a first merged dataset, (3) generate an updated dataset including (i) rows representing data records for a set of product-level resources and (ii) columns representing data variables that provide information about the set of product-level resources, (4) extract third, fourth, and fifth source datasets from a third database containing data about resource types, a fourth source database containing data about manufacturing plants, and a fifth source database containing environmental-impact values for types of resources, respectively, (6) merge the updated dataset and the third, fourth, and fifth source datasets into a second merged dataset, and (7) determine a group of environmental-impact indicators for each product-level resource in the set.

An intermodal-container-based factory for manufacturing building construction components is disclosed. The factory includes a plurality of intermodal containers that have been converted into specialized workstations and arranged into one or more assembly lines. Each workstation includes manufacturing equipment permanently mounted within an intermodal container, where the equipment is configured to fabricate a particular type of building component such as windows, doors, walls, plumbing modules, aluminum panels, or structural frames. The assembly lines are configured to produce different building components in a sequential process, receiving raw materials at a first container, processing intermediate parts through subsequent containers, and outputting completed building components at a final container for installation in a building under construction.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent fire fighting, and discloses an intelligent fire fighting platform multi-equipment information fusion early warning method and system, and the method comprises the steps: continuously collecting the data of detection equipment in a clean room of a semiconductor manufacturing factory, and presetting and storing an abnormal signal sequence template containing ultrafine particles, chemical activity monitoring and traditional fire features; and early recognition of the atypical dangerous events is realized. According to the method, a real-time detection equipment data sequence is compared with an abnormal signal sequence template, the matching degree is obtained, and when the matching degree reaches a preset threshold value, it is judged that an atypical dangerous event exists, and early warning information is generated. According to the invention, the identification capability and the early warning timeliness of the intelligent fire-fighting platform on atypical dangerous events in high-risk environments such as semiconductor manufacturing factories can be obviously improved, and the equipment safety and the personnel health are effectively guaranteed.

The application discloses a kind of energy-saving optimization method and system of manufacturing factory water-cooled air conditioner, it is related to intelligent energy-saving optimization technical field, including collection multimodal data, construct initial gene bank, form cluster gene bank by spectrum decomposition and K-means, using genetic algorithm to update cluster gene bank, output configuration parameter table, set target function and heat balance constraint condition, convert into quadratic binary optimization problem, using quantum annealing algorithm parallel search, by discretization mapping and screening, output initial operation optimization parameter, carry out use and calculate deviation rate, update GP model parameter, output operation optimization parameter.The application forms configuration parameter table by exergy analysis combined with advanced algorithm, improves the accuracy and adaptability of system initial configuration, introduces quantum annealing and GP model dynamic optimization operating parameter, improves the dynamic adaptability and optimization efficiency of operating parameter.

A heating furnace (10) for a plant (100) for the production of rolled products (P), said heating furnace (10) comprising a tunnel (11) and a plurality of heating means (20), said heating means (20) comprising a plurality of electrically driven heating elements (23, 24, 25).

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation status data collecting unit that collects operation status data of a plurality of heat treatment apparatuses installed in a manufacturing plant; an operation status data storing unit that stores the operation status data for each of the plurality of heat treatment apparatuses; and an operation status data providing unit that provides list information of the operation status data for each of the plurality of heat treatment apparatuses stored in the operation status data storing unit, as information that supports restoration of the plurality of heat treatment apparatuses when operations of the plurality of heat treatment apparatuses are forcibly stopped.

An information processing device comprises: a transaction relationship point value calculation unit that calculates an inter-industry transaction relationship point value indicating the relevance of a transaction relationship among a variety of industry types; a component supplier industry type estimator that estimates the industry type of a supplier's factory candidate based on identification information of a component for a supplier's factory candidate; and an industry type similarity calculation unit that calculates an inter-industry transaction relationship point value between a supplier's factory candidate industry type and a supplier's factory candidate industry type estimated by the component supplier industry type estimator.and a component manufacturing plant estimation unit that selects a supplier's plant candidate based on an inter-industry transaction relationship point value calculated by the industry type similarity estimation unit and estimates a location of the selected supplier candidate as a manufacturing plant location of a component manufactured by a supplier.

Detection and real-time reporting (via wireless to a remote receiver) of the release of harmful or otherwise unwanted chemicals or chemicals of corrosion into the environment and, more particularly, the undesired release of such chemicals from pipelines, supporting energy / electric / heating / cooling / storage / distribution infrastructure, refineries, chemical plants, factories, processing and manufacturing plants and equipment, storage tanks, engines, containers and the like. One or more detection devices can be placed nearby potential areas where leaks occur, or anywhere monitoring for leaks is desired. In some embodiments, the detection devices are integrated into components for monitoring said component for unwanted emissions.

This invention provides a manufacturing factory management system based on a digital twin platform, belonging to the field of factory management technology. It includes: a physical factory layer for real-time collection of equipment operation, process parameters, material consumption, and employee work reports; a digital twin platform layer deployed on a cloud or local server, including a data acquisition and integration module, a model building and management module, and a simulation and prediction module, constructing a high-fidelity, real-time synchronized digital twin and identifying dynamic bottlenecks based on constraint theory; and an application service layer including sub-modules such as intelligent scheduling and dynamic dispatching, human-machine collaborative work assignment, precise quality control, predictive equipment maintenance, and intelligent logistics and warehouse scheduling. This invention achieves real-time mapping and interaction between the physical factory and virtual space through the digital twin, solving problems such as data silos, delayed response, and disconnect between planning and execution in existing systems, thus realizing adaptive optimization and precise control of the production process.

To provide a manufacturing plant management system capable of recycling waste materials in accordance with changes in plant's operating conditions at a manufacturing plant.SOLUTION: This system is for management of a manufacturing plant in which by-products are generated as a result of production of a main product from raw materials using energy. Some of the by-products are environmentally hazardous substances that can be recycled and reused as raw materials or as part of the main product. The system includes a value information creation unit configured to assign value to each of the raw materials, by-products, energy utilization, and main product to create value information, and a planning unit configured to use the value information created by the value information creation unit to create a recycling plan that maximizes the sum of values of the raw materials, by-products, energy utilization, and main product. The value is set so as to fluctuate depending on the location of the manufacturing plant and its changes over time. This contributes to energy and resource conservation, and even carbon neutrality.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Disclosed in the present invention are an overhead hoist transport track and an overhead hoist transport system. The overhead hoist transport track comprises: a track body, wherein the upper surface of the track body is configured for movement wheels of an overhead hoist transport vehicle to move thereon; a side plate, which comprises a first plate, a second plate and a third plate, wherein the first plate and the second plate are connected to each other and abut against the upper surface and the outer side surface of the track body, respectively, the third plate is arranged on the outer side of the movement wheels and extends upwards from the junction of the first plate and the second plate, and the outer side surface of the side plate is provided with a first inclined surface inclined towards the outer side from top to bottom; and a first block body, which is connected to the track body, wherein part of the inner side surface of the first block body is provided with a second inclined surface matching the first inclined surface, and the first inclined surface abuts against the second inclined surface. The overhead hoist transport track can effectively inhibit the diffusion of particles into a semiconductor manufacturing factory, thereby improving the cleanliness of the factory.

The invention relates to a method (1) for operating a production plant (2), in which, in a forming process (3) which depends on at least one actual value of a setting variable of the production plant (2) influencing the forming process (3), at least one blank (4) is formed from an initial geometry (6) into a target geometry (7) by means of at least one tool (5) of the production plant (2), wherein a value characterizing the target geometry (7) is determined and compared with a threshold value, and at least one target value of the setting variable is determined as a function of the determined value if the determined value deviates from the threshold value by more than a predetermined amount.