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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7039479 | Production planning system The production planning system of this invention comprises: a supply quantity calculation module to calculate quantities of particular components, half products and finished products to be supplied in the current cycle; a production policy database to store useful d... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039472 | Schedule execution managing apparatus and method A schedule execution managing apparatus comprises a planned start time setting unit setting the planned start time of a schedule in correspondence with a predetermined base time and an offset from the base time, a planned start time storing unit storing the set plan... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039595 | System and method for throughput measurement A computerized method for determining throughput includes generating a demand array of item orders and generating a supply array of manufacturing inventory. The method includes selecting an item order in the demand array, and; matching manufacturing inventory in the... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035808 | Arrangement for resource and work-item selection A workflow system (FIG. 1) employs a selection engine (114) that attempts to match work items (100) with resources (104) in such a way that it brings the most value to all of the stakeholders in the workflow. Under resource or work-item s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035774 | Portable terminal and message notifying system using the same A portable terminal carried by an operator of a target apparatus includes a communicating device for conducting wireless communication and a first information acquiring device for acquiring first information related to the target apparatus from the target apparatus ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035704 | Capacity management system and method A capacity management system and method. A demand priority for each foundry and commodity capacity demand is determined according to sales and product information thereof. A capacity is then allocated for the foundry and commodity capacity demands according to the c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035810 | Feature centric release manager method and system A feature centric method of and system for monitoring the development and release process of a product, monitoring the development and release of a product, where the product is characterized by having a plurality of features is described. The method steps, which th... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031787 | Change management Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing change. The technique includes changing an object of a product creation process and accumulating the change without changing a baseline of a product structure associated with the product creati... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031785 | Method of production control and method of manufacturing electronic apparatus The invention relates to a method of production control that is preferably used for manufacture of electronic apparatus such as liquid crystal displays and provides a method of production control that makes it possible to set a feasible quantity to be processed. In ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031905 | Audio signal processing apparatus An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a device for compressing multiple-channel digital audio signals into compression-resultant multiple-channel signals respectively. The multiple-channel digital audio signals relate to a sampling frequency and a quantization... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031795 | System and method of coinsurance wafer management A system and method of coinsurance wafer management. The system includes at least one production line and an order management unit. The production line processes a MPW shuttle including original wafers and coinsurance wafers with a common fabrication process before ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027885 | Determining batch start versus delay The invention is a technique by which a manufacturing process flow determines when to begin processing a batch of lots. The invention includes a method for determining whether to begin processing a batch in one aspect and a manufacturing process flow in a second asp... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027884 | Method of production control and method of manufacturing industrial products The invention relates to a method of production control and a method of manufacturing industrial products. It is an object of the invention to provide a method of production control and a method of manufacturing industrial products which make it possible to set a ta... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024265 | Collaborative batch aggregation and scheduling in a manufacturing environment In one aspect, a computer-implemented method is provided for aggregating and scheduling product batches in a manufacturing environment. Using a batch aggregation engine implementing a mathematical programming strategy, one or more product demands are allocated to on... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024379 | Real time push of product availability information A method of pushing changes in product shipment dates to a catalog that sends an original availability date for products to the catalog and maintains a capacity scheduling system that utilizes a series of capacity buckets to represent the product shipment dates. Eac... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024371 | High availability planning and scheduling architecture A high availability planning and scheduling system includes a number of high availability (HA) systems (20) that are coupled to one or more external systems (40) using a message bus (50). Each HA system (20) includes an HA server (24 | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020594 | Electronic Kanban worksheet for the design and implementation of virtual or electronic Kanban systems An integrated wafer fab production characterization and scheduling system incorporates a manufacturing execution system with a scheduling system based on simulation. The integrated characterization/scheduling system provides manufacturing with a simulation tool inte... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015041 | Automated method for setting up multiple crystallization experiments in submicroliter volumes A method is provided for performing array microcrystallizations to determine suitable crystallization conditions for a molecule, the method comprising: forming an array of microcrystallizations, each microcrystallization comprising a drop comprising a mother liquor ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010373 | Parts production scheduling method A parts production scheduling method is provided for preparing, after receipt of a production order schedule of finished vehicles, a production order schedule of parts necessary for the production of the finished vehicles, wherein the production order schedule of th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010377 | Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating a transport scheme in an automated material handling system environment A method, system, and storage medium for facilitating a transport scheme in an automated material handling system environment are provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a trigger event while monitoring production operations in an automated material... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010378 | Component and material traceability control apparatus, control method, control program, and control program memory medium The present invention is related to a component and material traceability control apparatus for controlling manufacturing lot identification information of any of a component and material constituting a product manufactured according to a process where a manufacturi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010541 | Man-hour management system A man-hour management system (1 in FIG. 2) which manages man-hours for producing a product, comprising a walk man-hour conversion table (12) for performing registration management of standardized man-hours for walks; a work constituent condition... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010544 | Method and system for capturing, managing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge An independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting design criteria from a data file and parsing criteria ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006567 | System and method for encoding three-dimensional signals using a matching pursuit algorithm An apparatus and method to represent a video signal for improved source quality versus decoding complexity for a given compression rate and improved resistance against data loss when delivered over an error-prone network. The method comprises a 3-D matching pursuit ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006883 | Production system for composite product and production method for manufacturing of same To provide a product development and manufacturing system to be used in the increasingly competitive electronic equipment market, which enables the process from product planning to design, manufacturing, and sales of a product to be performed efficiently while incor... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006885 | Method for generating a suggestive dispatch lot list that considers upstream/downstream stage requirements A method for generating a suggestive dispatch lot list for use by a production line operator in selecting, from a plurality of lots, the lot to process at one of plurality of fabrication stages to maintain a predetermined production plan and fabrication target. The ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003365 | System and method of reserving capacity for a pre-process order In a foundry that produces a product family a system and method of reserving capacity for a pre-process order includes a plurality of products, a common pre-process operation and a plurality of distinct post-process operations corresponding to the products. When a p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003477 | Certification method for manufacturing process An improved method for certifying that a manufacturing facility is capable of producing quality products of a particular type is disclosed. The improved method may comprise auditing the manufacturing facility against a process standard and issuing a certification to... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999830 | Method and device for processing semiconductor wafer A method of processing a semiconductor wafer including the steps of executing a permutation processing by using a plurality of processing containers while sequentially transferring the wafers into the containers or performing a parallel processing and a transfer mec... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999081 | Method and apparatus for displaying production data for improved manufacturing decision making A new data processing and display method for use in interactive manufacturing process management is achieved. A first variable value, such as WIP, for a manufacturing stage is uploaded from a database and is subtracted from a first target value to obtain a first var... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999834 | Method for manufacturing a receiver and receiver manufactured by using the same method To facilitate the manufacture of an accurate receiver, a piezoelectric device manufacturer determines characteristic data, such as an approximate expression representative of a temperature characteristic of piezoelectric device and coefficients of the approximate ex... | 02/14/2006 |
| 7000186 | Method and structure for electronically transmitting a text document and linked information Method and structure for creating an electronically transmittable document having links therein which does not affect the integrity of the document as provided. The information is formatted to have a text portion, and an endnote portion, the endnote portion being in... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996578 | Work standard creation system and method, distributed client/server system, and computer program storage medium In a work standard creation system, a work related to each work standard is described using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information re... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996449 | Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus control system To reduce a stop time of transportation of wafers which occurs when one stepper handles many kinds of products, before exposure of semiconductor wafers of a first cassette port 7a is completed, a process recipe for semiconductor wafers of a second cass... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993400 | System and method for real-time assignment of jobs to production cells System and method for real-time job cell-assignment using soft-computing is provided. The system includes a work-in-progress module, a load estimation module and a fuzzy inference module. Clients send jobs to the system and the system evaluates a plurality of docume... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993401 | Method and apparatus for simplified determination of a design schedule utilizing computer aided design (CAD) model information The invention includes computer instructions that access a computer aided design (CAD) model information corresponding to a CAD model. Once the CAD model information is accessed, the computer instructions operate to determine a time value corresponding to the CAD mo... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993396 | System for determining the health of process control feedback loops according to performance assessment criteria A method for calculating the health of a process control loop based on multiple key assessments of the loop's performance. The method uses the concepts of baselines and thresholds. The typical calculation of loop health is the average of the Percent Towards Threshol... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990381 | Electrically controlled apparatus An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically controls the input-output section according to operating status data of ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6990458 | System and method for computer-aided technician dispatch and communication A system for computer aided technician dispatch and communication includes a communications system linking a plurality of subscribers, a team of technicians, a service representative, and a user. An input terminal receives information, the information includes servi... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6983229 | Method for scheduling solution preparation in biopharmaceutical batch process manufacturing A method and computer program product for simulating, modeling and scheduling solution preparation in the biopharmaceutical production process is described herein. The computer program product and method includes the steps of identifying a solution for preparation a... | 01/03/2006 |
