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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165707 | Enterprise factory control method and system A system, method, service and media for managing both supplier-owned and non-owned manufacturing asset types utilizing a supplier model of a product which goes across the manufacturing asset types. The invention maps the model to instances of the asset types and use... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8121719 | Methods and apparatus for electronically representing manufacturing flow A method of electronically representing manufacturing flow is provided. The method allows a manufacturer to electronically track an infinite number of attributes related to components used in the production of a finished product. Using these attributes, the manufact... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8078305 | Numerical control arrangement A numerical control arrangement, comprising a sheet metal data file defining a part blank having a plurality of position elements from a processed design file; a machine controller comprising tool-related operations and control data from said sheet metal data file d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8041444 | Intelligent production station and production method One aspect related to design of systems and methods for manufacturing products that include technology in skilled areas is configuring a production station for use by an operator without specialized skills. The present invention contemplates an approach to designing... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7970484 | Method of controlling a production process In order to increase the efficiency of a production process a new method is presented. Thereby a flow of items is generated in a production system. Electronic devices that are attachable to the items are used for tracking the items. An identification of a first elec... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7894923 | Methods and apparatus for sensing substrates in carriers In some aspects, a method is provided for mapping contents of a substrate carrier. The method includes (1) moving a carrier to a sensor; and (2) determining, with the sensor, a presence or an absence of a substrate in the carrier based upon a position of a substrate... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877159 | Method and apparatus for managing production history information of pipe or tube and method for producing pipe or tube therewith The production history information management apparatus 100 comprises: machining an identifier for identifying a pipe or tube in a region of the pipe or tube on which thread cutting is to be performed before an initial production process is performed among pr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877158 | Method for operating industrial installations The method was tackled with picking line for generating strip steel for the automobile industry. The initial conditions to which the tandem-type mill coupled with picking line executed using the installation is exposed. The installation receives an input in the form... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7738988 | Process and method for continuous, non lot-based integrated circuit manufacturing A method for continuous, non lot-based manufacturing of integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type to each have a unique fuse identification (ID) includes: reading the fuse ID of each of the IC devices; advancing multiple lots of the IC devices through, for example... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720558 | Methods and apparatus for mapping carrier contents In a first aspect, a first method of mapping contents of a substrate carrier is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) coupling a sensor to the substrate carrier or a loadport adapted to receive the substrate carrier; and (2) determining a presence or ... | 05/18/2010 |
| RE41185 | Error proofing system for portable tools A system for controlling and monitoring portable tools at a particular work cell remotely by R-F communication to provide error proofing of various parameters including that the correct tool is to be used at a work cell, the tool is properly calibrated for the opera... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680554 | Method for associating objects in a manufacturing process A method for associating objects in a manufacturing process. In response to an occurrence of an event for an object, a time is recorded of the event for the object. Entries for parts and assemblies associated with the object are located within a database. An entry o... | 03/16/2010 |
| RE41160 | Error proofing system for portable tools A system for controlling and monitoring portable tools at a particular work cell remotely by R-F communication to provide error proofing of various parameters including that the correct tool is to be used at a work cell, the tool is properly calibrated for the opera... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7653453 | Method for tracking characteristics in joined assemblies A method for uniquely identifying an assembly of at least two components, comprising the steps of: reading a first identifier associated with a first component; reading a second identifier associated with a second component; joining the first component to the second... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7613537 | Method and system of recognizing ID marks appended on base materials, and method of manufacturing products by base materials with the ID marks A method of recognizing ID marks encompasses reading the ID marks appended on base materials, and converting the ID marks into bit data; identifying the converted bit data with one of original bit data, when deterioration of the ID mark is within an error correction... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7487003 | Automatic tracking of a lot of items through virtual sublots A system that tracks a lot of items being manufactured comprises a receiver component that receives control logics for manufacturing the lot, the control logics include information relating to number of items within the lot and number of items within sublots. A part... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7474935 | Method and system for tracking product data for a product mass flow in a transport storage section of the tobacco-processing industry The application relates to a method for tracking product data for a product mass flow in a transport storage section of the tobacco-processing industry having the steps: production of product data sets which each correspond to approximately equal portions of the pro... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7451010 | Chip information character set generation system and method of marking a chip with a chip information character set A chip information character set including a lot ID for chip-marking, which has a smaller number of characters than that of a conventional lot ID used in a fabrication line for a semiconductor device, is generated by coding the conventional lot ID using a decimal nu... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7432813 | Method and system for determining hardware configuration of medical equipment using RF tags According to one embodiment, the present technique provides a medical device component having an RF tag that is configured to provide information regarding the medical device component. Particularly, the RF tag may contain and provide information regarding maintenan... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433750 | Data tracking method and system applied in semiconductor manufacturing A data tracking method applied in semiconductor manufacturing is provided. Split historical data of a wafer lot is retrieved and it is determined whether the end of lot data of the wafer lot is read. If not, a maximum split number required for a split processing app... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426422 | Wood tracking by identification of surface characteristics A “Woodprint™” characterization and identification technique employs cameras (16), lighting (14), camera interface hardware (18), a computer (20), and/or image processing software to collect and analyze surface characteristics of pi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7370241 | Device, system and method for predictive failure analysis A large population of mass-produced devices (80) such as a particular model of computer hard disk drive, are distributed around the world. Each device (80) includes an arrangement for collecting failure analysis data of the device (50). Each dev... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364079 | Tracking label An improved tracking label may comprise a destination ZIP field (130), content identifier number (CIN) description field (115), and a barcode field (150). In addition, the improved label comprises at least one of a printer line field (105... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366580 | Production line control using shift registers for contact lens manufacture A method for controlling a production line for the manufacture and/or packaging of contact lenses which production line simultaneous by processes at least two lots, the method comprising dividing at least a portion of the production line into a series of cells throu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363107 | Substrate transfer system A substrate transfer system is used in fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The system includes a cassette having a bar code, a cassette stocker to store the cassette; an auto guided vehicle that is able to transfer the cassette; a moving path unit to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363106 | System and method for carrier identification in a pneumatic tube system A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359870 | System design, proposal and programming method and apparatus A technique is provided or integrating system design, sales, and manufacturing functions. Systems including networked and programmable electrical components, such as motor control centers, and other electrical power control arrangements are designed, and a database ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358856 | Two-phase commit synchronizing seal state A conveyance tracking system provides two-phase transaction commit processing for synchronizing seal state information between a seal device attached to a conveyance and a host for tracking conveyances. The system uses a reader device for synchronization and communi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360211 | System for automated generation of config to order software stacks A method for automatically generating a software stack in an information handling system. The information handling system includes a software process partition. The method includes generating a manifest identifying software stack contents, creating a target partitio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356558 | Systems and methods for manufacturing Systems and method for the manufacture of goods, including apparel, piece goods, and other assembled items are described. Embodiments of this invention provide systems for managing the flow of component parts to an assembly site, the assembly of finished goods, and ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349754 | Providing component-specific performance characterization data for an assembly or subsystem A method for fabricating a motor vehicle including an engine and automatic transmission includes generating first data containing information representing a performance characteristic of a solenoid and a serialized solenoid number, affixing to the solenoid a first b... | 03/25/2008 |
| RE40188 | System and method for providing an integrated circuit with a unique identification An integrated circuit identification device (ICID) to be incorporated into an integrated circuit (IC) includes an array of electronic cells in which the magnitude of an output signal of each cell is a function of randomly occurring parametric variations which vary f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346416 | Contact lens manufacture A method for tracking multiple SKUs of contact lenses in a manufacturing line comprising the steps of: a) molding a plurality of contact lenses, b) providing a plurality of carriers each having a carrier indicator, c) inspecting each contact lens to determine inform... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343213 | System and method for analyzing and communicating transmission assembly failure information A computerized system and method is used to collect and record data regarding transmission failures, to analyze the transmission failure data to identify root causes of failures, and to communicate failure source information so countermeasures may be implemented to ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343214 | Die-level traceability mechanism for semiconductor assembly and test facility Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel method, system and computer program product for tracing die units during material transfer from, for example, one factory or lot to another (and efficiently maintaining correspondence between die data and an indiv... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343212 | Item substitution in the manufacture of products A method for item substitution in a manufacturing process includes receiving an order for manufacture of a product and generating a first electronic bill of material for the product. The first electronic bill of material identifies multiple primary components to be ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340319 | Method and system for maintaining an aircraft engine A computerized method of assisting the routing of a part, comprising the steps of: providing at least one computer; receiving part identifier information; and generating a tag for affixing to the part. The tag has information thereon responsive to the identifier inf... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337963 | Portal system for a controlled space Systems, devices, and methods are provided for monitoring and tracking an item in a controlled space. In one embodiment, a portal system that monitors the controlled space includes a radio frequency tag that is attached to inventory and a portal device, which includ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336177 | RFID system and method for tracking individual articles A RFID related system and method for tracking articles that are not individually labeled with RFID tags. A transporter with an RFID reader identifies a carrier with an RFID tag as it is disposed onto the transporter. The location and/or number of the disassociated a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333873 | Method and device for providing cards to be applied to a carrier A method and a device for providing cards for processing first cause a drawing of a card from at least one card magazine. The cards are arranged in a plurality of card magazines and may be drawn from the same, and information regarding their card type is further ass... | 02/19/2008 |
