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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5216593 | Method and apparatus for discrete activity resourse allocation through cardinality constraint generation The required computational effort in the areas of production planning and logistics, scheduling, distribution and resource allocation is reduced by a procedure for solving a Discrete Activity Resource Allocation (DARA) problem. The procedure begins by red... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5212635 | Method and apparatus for measurement of manufacturing technician efficiency A method and apparatus are disclosed for measuring the efficiency of a manufacturing technician in the performance of selected operations within a computer based manufacturing process. A manufacturing process plan is stored within a computer system having... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5195041 | Method and apparatus for improving manufacturing processes The invention determines the batch size of materials required for each process within a workstation based on a given shipment schedule, as well as the values of several other workstation variables that are determinative of workstation and factory performa... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5126932 | Method and apparatus for executing a program in a heterogeneous multiple computer system A program, consisting of data and a plurality of successive operations on the data, is executed on a distributed heterogeneous multiple computer system having a plurality of autonomous nodes each including a processor and associated memory. A control arra... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5093794 | Job scheduling system An improved job scheduling system provides for scheduling of a variety of jobs without special purpose coding by the use of time maps to maintain current data, including the preferred path through the shop, as well as scheduling jobs around bottleneck sho... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5089970 | Integrated manufacturing system An integrated manufacturing system operative for managing the distribution to a factory floor as well as throughout a factory of the information that is necessary to effectuate the production of products on the factory floor. The information required for ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5040123 | Expert system scheduler An expert system scheduler is disclosed which uses heuristics developed by an experienced factory scheduler. The scheduler uses these heuristics to generate schedules. Forward and backward scheduling is used at different stages of the schedule generation ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4994980 | Automatic machining scheduling method based on an expert system An automatic machining scheduling method based on an expert system is provided, which can optimize and facilitate the assignment of processes in a large-scale production system to individual machine tools, based on expert experience accumulated as a datab... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4931944 | Method of optimizing a vehicle assembly line build sequence A method of scheduling the building sequence of a plurality of objects on an assembly line in order to minimze the cost of building the objects is disclosed. Each object has a plurality of attributes, which together with the position of the object in the ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4852001 | Job scheduling method and system A job scheduling method for scheduling of job allocation to various resources, wherein each workload of a job is allocated to each time unit along a time axis in units of job and resource type. Based on the workload allocated in units of resource type, an... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4827423 | Computer integrated manufacturing system The Computer Integrated Manufacturing System includes a plurality of levels of computer control which organize and disseminate the information for controlling shop floor level systems. Both scheduling data and data relating to process, product, and materi... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4807108 | Product realization method A method for controlling a process of realizing a product. The method defines activities of the process, their precedence relationships and the flow of information among the interconnected activities required to create the product. Resources are allocated... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4700318 | Project construction with depiction means and methods Construction of projects such as buildings, bridges, dams, industrial plants, means of transport, or the like with the aid of means and methods for incremental depiction of such buildings, etc. Complex structural features of the construction project are d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4698766 | Industrial processing and manufacturing systems An automated industrial processing or manufacturing installation including a series of computer controlled facilities such as machine tools, workpiece and tool conveyors, and storage devices is controlled by a computer system wherein the control software ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4661912 | Numerical control device for scheduling machining of groups of workpieces A numerical control device in which machining operations on a plurality of different groups of workpieces can be automatically carried out. A switch section instructs data representing the required number of machining operations in a machining order for e... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4648023 | Method for resource allocation for the manufacture of a product A control system for the manufacture of small-order-quantity goods. A network of events, activities and baseline schedule dates is constructed. Availability of external components and actual internal progress are measured by a slack variable. Optimization... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4580207 | Numerical control data dividing and editing apparatus for numerical control machine tool Machining data for machining a workpiece is divided by an NC data dividing processor into a plurality of machining element data each of which can be carried out by a single tool, and selected ones of the divided machining element data are combined and edi... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4577284 | Adaptive robot batch assembly system A technique for accomplishing automated small batch assembly using a sophisticated computer program controlled robot (8) is disclosed wherein the robot work envelope (51) is divided into three independent work areas. Each work area is provided with a port... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4459663 | Data processing machine and method of allocating inventory stock for generating work orders for producing manufactured components A data processing machine is provided for automatically and efficiently controlling the manufacture of designated end item products and components which are used to make them. Product information is entered and stored in memory as job files, inventory fil... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4314342 | Unsafe machines without safe positions An automated assembly line is operated and controlled by a computer system. When one or more work stations are inherently "unsafe" to the workpieces which enter them if such workpieces remain at the unsafe work stations for an extended length of time, the... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4306292 | Segmented asynchronous operation of an automated assembly line An automated assembly line is controlled by a computer system. The assembly line is comprised of a plurality of machines which are each segmented into its basic unit operations providing work stations. The work stations are then controlled by the computer... | 12/15/1981 |
