Digital Build Package Standardization for Multi-Facility Manufacturing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional manufacturing systems face challenges in maintaining consistency and quality when producing the same product design across different manufacturing facilities due to variations in equipment, personnel, and environmental factors, leading to issues with repeatability and quality control.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates and optimizes digital build packages, which canonicalize manufacturing inputs into a standardized format, enabling portability and consistency across multiple facilities by referencing CAD files and capturing evaluation metrics to refine and optimize future designs and processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manufacturing is performed across multiple facilities with different equipment and personnel, then production capacity and flexibility are improved, but manufacturing consistency and quality control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by standardizing manufacturing parameters into a digital build package that captures all critical process variables, material specifications, and equipment settings. This standardized package is transmitted across facilities to ensure consistent manufacturing outcomes despite variations in local equipment and personnel, directly resolving the contradiction between multi-facility productivity and manufacturing consistency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements copying by creating a digital replica of the manufacturing process through the digital build package, which contains complete instructions and parameters that can be replicated across different facilities. This digital copy ensures that the same manufacturing process is executed consistently across multiple locations, maintaining quality control while enabling distributed production
2Reliability
If manufacturing processes are standardized across facilities, then quality control is improved, but adaptability to local equipment variations worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the digital build package adaptable and modifiable based on local facility conditions. The standardized package can be dynamically adjusted to accommodate specific equipment variations while maintaining core quality standards, allowing the system to be both consistent and adaptable simultaneously
3Manufacturing precision
If detailed manufacturing instructions are transmitted across facilities, then manufacturing repeatability is improved, but data transmission complexity and file size increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the comprehensive manufacturing data into structured digital build packages with standardized formats and hierarchical organization. This segmentation allows detailed instructions to be transmitted efficiently across facilities while maintaining manufacturing repeatability, reducing data transmission complexity through systematic data architecture
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AI summary
Techniques regarding manufacturing a desired product from a digital product design are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can regard a system, which can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a build package component that canonicalizes manufacturing inputs regarding a product design into a digital build package that enables portability of manufacturing the product design within a network of manufacturing facilities, wherein the digital build package delineates how the product design is to be manufactured and references a computer-aided design file that characterizes the product design.