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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5202836 | Automated management system for car frames and production method An automated system of managing a group of frame numbers to identify each vehicle in different vehicle model groups is provided. This system comprises a first computer which creates frame number groups and a production ratios of various model vehicles to ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5177688 | Assembly line balancer Assembly line balancer groups tasks of multi-sided, mixed model assembly lines on the basis of per side and per model constraints. Resulting compound tasks involve less computational time and power in balancing the line.... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5155679 | Set-up optimization for flexible manufacturing systems An iterative method of sequencing jobs in a flexible manufacturing environment where such manufacturing jobs have sequence-dependent set-up times provides for solutions which approximate optimal sequencing while requiring only modest computational resourc... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4896269 | Job shop scheduling and production method and apparatus A method for the efficient scheduling of a first plurality of jobs and the performance of the jobs on a second plurality of processing machines uses various heuristic rules in order to meet scheduling objectives. Initially, each job is scheduled on the ma... | 01/23/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
