Board Production Traceability for Real-Time Quality Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
The production of boards often results in a significant amount of non-conforming products due to complex interactions between various parameters, making it difficult to identify and address the specific causes of quality issues, and changing production types without shutdowns is challenging.
Innovation Solution
Implementing ID tags with board-specific information to track and correlate production parameters, enabling real-time optimization and feedback using artificial intelligence, allowing for improved parameter linkage and reduction of non-conforming products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If production speed is maintained at high levels, then productivity is improved, but the number of defective boards increases making quality control difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback system where ID tags on boards track production parameters throughout the manufacturing process. Quality data is fed back to identify which specific production conditions caused defects, enabling continuous process optimization without reducing production speed. The system learns from each defective board to prevent recurrence.
Solution Approach 2:
ID tags serve as intermediaries between the physical board and its production history. Each tag stores parameter data from various production steps, acting as a mediator that links the final product quality back to specific production conditions, enabling traceability without disrupting the production flow.
2Measurement precision
If production parameters are monitored in detail to identify quality causes, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The ID tag system serves multiple functions: it identifies individual boards, stores production parameters, tracks quality data, and enables traceability. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single integrated solution, reducing overall complexity while maintaining high measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms complex quality control by changing from monitoring continuous streams to tracking discrete parameter sets associated with each board's ID tag. This parameter organization approach simplifies data management and analysis while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If product changes are made during continuous production, then adaptability is improved, but the amount of unsuitable boards increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by recording production parameters in ID tags before product changes occur. When a parameter change is planned, the system can identify boards affected by the change and trace them separately, allowing proactive quality management and reducing waste from unsuitable boards.
Solution Approach 2:
The production process is segmented by board identity through ID tags. Each board's production history is independently tracked, allowing the system to manage different parameter sets for different boards even during continuous production. This segmentation enables flexible product changes while maintaining quality control for each batch.
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AI summary
A method for producing boards, wherein raw material (6) is provided and production steps are performed to obtain said boards, with half products formed during said production steps, wherein the productions steps comprise at least the following production steps: -a basic step wherein at least said raw material (6) is transported to a shaping unit (1); -a shaping step, wherein said raw material (6) is formed into plate shaped material to form a plate shaped half product (7); -a sawing step wherein said plate shaped half product (7) is sawn to board shaped half products (8); wherein these board shaped half products (8) are formed into respective boards, wherein, a number of boards is linked to a respective ID tag or comprises a respective ID tag, wherein said ID tags comprise individual data about parameters relating to production steps of said respective boards.