44 results about "Manufacturing planning" patented technology

The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle (200) having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating (210), installing and administrating (220), factory modeling (230), manufacturing planning (240), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking (250) and analyzing of manufacturing results (260). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and software building blocks. The framework components are adapted for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes.

An apparatus and method for a production planning system using a process of adaptive learning is disclosed. A production planning system receives production objects wherein each production object has at least one attribute. In one embodiment, the production objects include information relating to product to be manufactured. After receipt of production objects, multiple preference scores according to the attributes of the production objects are calculated. In one embodiment, each preference score represents desirability of transition from manufacturing a first object to a second object. The system subsequently identifies a suggested production plan which includes a sequence order of two or more objects in response to the preference scores. In one embodiment, the planning preferences are updated or modified by an adaptive learning system in response to adjustments of the suggested production plant by a planner.

A part data entry system is provided. In that system, an order processing template is provided to facilitate sales and order processing, tool planning, CA (computer aided) (e.g., CAD/CAM) parametric modeling, computer simulation, and the generation of a factory machine program. The order processing template comprises financial and manufacturing engineering planning fields and technical fields. A part information population mechanism is provided to populate the order processing template with the part information. An order template population mechanism is provided to populate other ones of the financial and manufacturing planning fields and the technical fields that are not populated by the part information population mechanism. An order processing template interface, or a set of such interfaces, is provided to provide, for a given ordered part, from the order processing template, CA-specific information to a CA computer system before the CA computer system performs CAD modeling on the part. The order processing template interface further provides, for the given ordered part, from the order processing template, ERP-specific information to an ERP computer system before the ERP computer system performs scheduling of machines and resources, material reservation, or RFQ calculations.

The present invention provides an orthodontic process phased into two or more sub-processes for repositioning a patient's teeth. In each sub-process, a complete treatment plan is established, but not all (i.e. only some) appliances in the plan are fabricated to move the teeth, out of the expectation that teeth movement may not completely follow the full course as planned. The entire orthodontic process is thus featured with dynamic planning and incremental implementation of the plans, to address ever-changing treatment profile.

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for compiling production and planning information. In one embodiment, a system for planning the production of a product includes at least one database configured to store engineering information related to the product, and further configured to store process information related to the product, and a processor coupled to the at least one database to combine selected information from the at least one database to generate a manufacturing planning document that defines the product. In another embodiment, a method of generating a manufacturing bill of material for a selected product includes compiling a process data structure from the process information, compiling a product data structure from the engineering information, and generating a manufacturing bill of material by combining the process data structure and the product data structure.

A mounter for a manufacturing management method suppresses an occurrence of inventory shortage or excess inventory as much as possible, and provides energy savings when manufacturing is not performed at full capacity. A throughput determining step acquires manufacturing information included in a manufacturing plan while manufacturing equipment is manufacturing mounted boards and determines a throughput of the manufacturing equipment for the mounted boards based on the manufacturing information while the manufacturing equipment is manufacturing a sequence of the mounted boards. A manufacturing condition determining step determines a manufacturing condition for decreasing power consumption of the manufacturing equipment within a range of throughput not lower than the determined throughput in the case where the throughput determined in the throughput determining step is equal to or lower than a current throughput of the manufacturing equipment.

The invention discloses a method and a system for thematically displaying industrial map system projects on the basis of data linkage. The method includes carrying out data combing and warehousing on spatial information processed in a unified manner and thematic planning and manufacturing planning data and storing the spatial information and the planning data in background servers; vectorizing and processing the warehoused data on GIS (geographic information system) platforms, plotting vectorized and processed spatial data on industrial maps, representing the spatial data in a classified manner by the aid of signs when the spatial data are plotted, converting the industrial spatial information into corresponding point, line and surface elements and displaying the point, line and surface elements on electronic maps; configuring data interaction between front-end assemblies and the background servers in B/S (browser/server) architectures and dynamically generating industrial information thematic maps. The method and the system have the advantages that flow data processing modes are established, accordingly, the data utilization rate can be increased, and the aggregation and inline degrees of the data can be improved.

A method and system for estimating exportation time are proposed, for connecting a manufacturer through a network to a system for estimating exportation time, wherein the system estimates product exportation time for client orders received by the manufacturer according to practical operating conditions in product manufacture. In the use of the foregoing method and system, a first database stores uploaded and manufacture operating data from the manufacturer, so as to prompt the system to perform data operation and processing according to the stored data. Operation data results are stored in a second database, and used as reference to provide manufacture schedule data, order reply data, abnormal condition data and material insufficiency data to be downloaded by the manufacturer, so as to allow the manufacturer to execute product manufacture according to the downloaded data, and immediately realize problems in product manufacture to solve.

The invention discloses an ERP commodity management system and method. The system comprises a commodity category module, a material category module, a BOM module, a commodity new arrival module, an order management module, a production and manufacturing planning module, a purchasing module, a warehouse material management module, a production line module and a warehouse finished product managementmodule. Data of the modules interact mutually, functions are triggered mutually, data processing is more timely, and in addition, human factors can be reduced, computerized management of commoditiesin a series of processes such as design, material purchasing, selling, manufacturing, warehouse-in, ex-warehouse and logistics is achieved, enterprise management integration is facilitated, the collaboration of departments of an enterprise is enhanced, and the working efficiency and the accuracy of the departments are improved.

In a physical distribution model of the circulation type, synchronization is established between a reuse plan and a delivery/fabrication plan to thereby reasonably reduce the excess and deficiency of inventory articles at a confluence point of regenerated reusable articles and newly delivered component parts. With regard to newly delivered lower-level items, predict a variation or fluctuation of stock quantity based on at least a delivery schedule of them and a present stock amount along with usage plans in manufacturing processes. As for lower-level items of regenerated articles, predict a delivery due date and an expected number of such regenerated lower-level items based on at least a stock quantity of recovered items collected for reuse purposes and a lead time for taking regenerated lower-level items out of the collected items, thereby controlling, based on the both prediction results, the stock quantity of the lower-level items in manufacturing processes.

The invention discloses an automobile customization method and equipment and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining an automobile customization order and extracting automobile customization data from the automobile customization order; making a manufacturing plan of a corresponding customized automobile according to the automobile customization data and transmitting the manufacturing plan to an automobile manufacturing system; and receiving manufacturing process information fed back by the automobile manufacturing system when manufacturing the corresponding customized automobile on the basis of the manufacturing plan, and associating the manufacturing process information with the automobile customization order. The automobile customization order carries the automobile customization data input by a user when the order is submitted, so that the corresponding automobile can be conveniently manufactured by an automobile manufacturer on the basis of the automobile customization data,; and the manufacturing process information is associated with the automobile customization order, so that customers can conveniently know the manufacturing condition of the automobile, and personalized customization of the automobile and visualization of the manufacturing process can be realized in the automobile manufacturing process.

An aircraft assembly system as described herein includes an input module, a database, and a processing unit. The input module is adapted for inputting customer-specific data and, in particular, parameters which relate to the expected time of delivery, the number of personnel working in the aircraft assembly system or an apparatus of the system which cannot be used. By applying description logics, the processing unit generates a manufacturing plan in accordance with a set of rules and the input parameters. In order to improve the manufacturing plan, input parameters may be changed by the system in an iterative process. This may provide for an efficient use of resources available.

A system and method of the present invention allows a user to monitor the production of a factory in real-time. The user inputs desired values for various performance metrics. Then an embodiment of the present invention analyzes manufacturing plans by directly accessing manufacturing planning software. Projections are calculated for each metric and the projections are compared to the desired values. A document is then created summarizing the desired values and the projections. The document may contain hyperlinks that enable a user to view details about any of the performance metrics. The document may also contain formatting that highlights various metrics for a variety of reasons, including the failure to meet a performance metric. The document also allows users to embed comments that are then forwarded to other users, as a means to allow collaboration from a plurality of users.

An information processing device includes: for each of a plurality of machine tools, a machine information database configured to store machine configuration information and tool information of each of the plurality of machine tools, in association with each of the plurality of machine tools; an information collection unit configured to collect and store the machine configuration information and the tool information into the machine information database; a manufacturing planning work information input unit configured to receive manufacturing planning work information; a machine information collation unit configured to collate the manufacturing planning work information with the machine configuration information and the tool information to give a score to each of the plurality of machine tools, based on a result of the collation; and an optimum machine selection unit configured to select an optimum machine tool for machining, based on the score given to each of the plurality of machine tools.

The invention provides a workshop production system based on the Internet of Things and an implementation method thereof. An intelligent and flexible system integrating manufacturing planning and production process management is constructed. According to the integrated system, through integration of software and hardware, the production efficiency is effectively improved, an easy-to-operate, easy-to-manage and high-efficiency production platform is built in the traditional manufacturing industry, the traditional industrial pattern and a rough development model are changed, three-dimensional digitization of the production process can be achieved through software and hardware integration, and therefore, production efficiency is improved, labor requirements are reduced, production period is shortened, and product quality is guaranteed.

An automated supply management system for dynamically fulfilling a customer requested order having an order fulfillment system for fulfilling a plurality of customer requests in accordance with a plurality of processing capacity restraints defined for a plurality of pieces of manufacturing equipment disposed within a manufacturing facility; an allocation planning system for receiving a plurality of capacity modeling data from the order fulfillment system, an order management system for communicating a plurality of consumption data and a customer requested due date to the order fulfillment system, wherein the order management system requests the customer requested due date and receives a calendar date of production available to promise from the order fulfillment system; and a manufacturing planning system for receiving an order fulfillment matrix from the order fulfillment system.

According to the intelligent interaction platform for manufacturing the parts of the speed reducer and the interaction method of the intelligent interaction platform, various production resources inside and outside an enterprise are reasonably configured according to customized speed reducer manufacturing requirements, the parts of the speed reducer are intelligently managed in a graded mode and manufactured according to requirements, the utilization rate of the various resources is increased, and the production cost of products is reduced; and meanwhile, the production efficiency of products is improved. According to the specific scheme, an interactive management system, more than one key part manufacturing unit and more than one general part manufacturing unit are arranged; the key part manufacturing unit is used for receiving a key part manufacturing demand plan of the interactive management system and feeding back a manufacturing intention, and executing a manufacturing plan of the key parts of the speed reducer according to an instruction of the interactive management system; and the general part manufacturing unit is used for receiving a general part manufacturing demand plan of the interactive management system, feeding back a manufacturing intention and executing a manufacturing plan of general parts of the speed reducer according to an instruction of the interactive management system.

The invention discloses a planning system and method for a deep processing and manufacturing process of glass. The planning system comprises a previous year yield acquisition module, an equipment information acquisition module, a personnel information acquisition module, an emission information acquisition module, a data receiving module, a data processing module, a master control module and an information sending module. The previous year yield acquisition module is used for acquiring annual yield information in a previous preset year; the equipment information acquisition module is used for acquiring production equipment information, and the production equipment information comprises equipment use time information, equipment maintenance information and equipment fault information; the personnel information acquisition module is used for acquiring production personnel information, and the production personnel information comprises the number of research and development personnel, the number information of processing personnel and the working duration information of the processing personnel. According to the invention, related information of the glass deep processing factory can be collected more comprehensively, so that more comprehensive processing and manufacturing planning is carried out, and different use requirements are met.

A method for an industrial system. The method includes: ascertaining a representation of the industrial system, the ascertainment of the representation including: selecting a first state of the representation, selecting, based on the first state, at least one machining order from a plurality of machining orders as a function of the first state of the representation and as a function of at least one previously ascertained recommendation, and ascertaining a second state as a subsequent state of the first state via a simulation of the second state as a function of the at least one selected machining order and as a function of the first state; and ascertaining a manufacturing schedule for the industrial system as a function of the ascertained representation.