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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5537313 | Point of supply use distribution process and apparatus A method using a central computer and a work station for managing inventory. To dispense inventory to consumers, a system user is issued a card imprinted with a personal user bar code. This user bar code is read into the computer and subsequently verified... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5499188 | Flexible method for building a recipe in a process control system A process plant has a process control system and a plurality of production lines, each production line having a predetermined equipment configuration. The process control system further includes a controller for interfacing to each production line. The pr... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5479343 | Production planning system In a production planning system, the explosion of a product to parts is performed by a specification check device and a design passage judgement device. An MRP calculation control device, a leadtime forecasting device, an MRP explosion calculation device,... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5440480 | Method for determining flexible demand in a manufacturing process A system that determines the total demand for a product for each day over four time periods specified by the user of the system. Within the first time period, from the current date up to a demand fence, the total demand cannot be altered. For the next thr... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5339247 | Distributed data CAD system In a computer aided design (CAD) system, by distributing managements of a number of concerned parts data to a plurality of work stations (WS), a large scale assembly constructed by a number of parts can be easily designed. There is provided a distributed ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5311437 | Materials selector tool A computer-implemented preferred materials selector tool comprises a digital processor, a data storage medium accessible by the digital processor, and a data base stored in the data storage medium having a plurality of entries for materials. At least some... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5295067 | Order planning system which transforms existing engineering relationships into an order planning knowledge base A system for order planning that translates an order configuration into a list of bills of materials list. The system operates based upon a first logical specification of relationships between models, optional features or device codes and required materia... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5204821 | Parts supply instruction apparatus The parts supply instruction apparatus includes a production schedule system, a parts information system, a car information system, and an order issue managing system which are preferably located at an assembly factory. The order issue managing system sca... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5193065 | System for requistioning and distributing material in a manufacturing environment A system for requisitioning and distributing material in a manufacturing environment is provided. A manufacturing station stores and utilizes the material and produces a first missing resource signal in response to depleting a predetermined amount of the ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5121330 | Method and system for product restructuring A system and method for restructuring a product assembly utilizes a knowledge base of past product designs to identify to an expert, which components within the assembly are candidates for replacement with other components. By reducing the varieties of co... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5047947 | Method of modeling the assembly of products to increase production yield A method for increasing the production or manufacturing yield of a product by the application of mathematical modeling techniques on the statistical distributions of major components of the product to maximize the production yield thereof. The product is ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5029095 | Apparatus and method for parts assembly A system for manufacturing multiple component assemblies utilizing semi-automatic computer-assisted material handling. The system comprises a plurality of component selection cells each having an alphanumeric display to display a selected assembly model d... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4958292 | Production control system for mixed production line The present invention provides a production control system of enhanced efficiency which is adapted to a mixed production line wherein products having different specifications are mass produced by assembling different parts on a common assembly line. This ... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4887207 | Automated system for evaluating the sensitivity of inventory costs due to fluctuations in customer demand An automated inventory management system is provided which is easy to use and user friendly to evaluate the impact of customer demand changes on inventory. For a given item, the system automatically defines an inventory model by accessing an engineering p... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4821197 | Apparatus and method for parts assembly A system for manufacturing multiple component assemblies utilizing semi-automatic computer-assisted material handling. The system comprises a plurality of component selection cells each having an alphanumeric display to display a selected assembly model d... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4646238 | Material requirements planning system and procedures for use in process industries A system for controlling the flow of semiconductor products and their components through a production facility including assembly and final testing of a large number of different products with multiple product grades. The system stores information on the ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4586146 | Grinding mill control system Computerized control of a grinding mill complex to establish a predetermined optomized operating setpoint condition in the presence of chemical additive grinding aids responds to a plurality of input signals representative of mill operating characteristic... | 04/29/1986 |
