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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5546326 | Dynamic dispatching rule that uses long term due date and short term queue time to improve delivery performance This is a dynamic dispatching method for delivery performance by a factory. SLACK=(Due-- Date-Now)-(Forecast-- FAB-- Out-- Time); where Due-- Date=Scheduled due date from Master Production Schedule. T... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5500800 | Method and apparatus for tracking allocatable requirements A system level automation tool tracks allocatable requirements associated with a system design using a computer by generating a plurality of objects each defining a portion of the system. The objects may have a parent-child relationship wherein one or mor... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5500803 | Motion optimization for a tape storage system An automated cartridge system optimizes the time it takes to execute a series of cartridge requests. After cartridge requests are received, the library controller calculates the approximate time it will take to execute each possible sequence of pending ca... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5485369 | Logistics system for automating tansportation of goods The various transportation logistics tasks, such as order processing, order fulfillment, transportation of goods and tracking, are assigned to individual client/server objects which make up the building blocks of the computerized logistics management syst... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5440493 | Lot transporting system between stations having different manufacturing equipment In a lot transporting system including a plurality of stations each having different types of manufacturing equipments, when the next manufacturing process to be performed upon a lot is determined, one of the stations having manufacturing equipments speci... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5375062 | Method and apparatus for forming lot A method of and an apparatus for forming a uniform lot or a mixed lot by collecting a predetermined number of the same kind or plural kinds of objects on the basis of production conditions in a processing operation, wherein the plural kinds of objects to ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5369570 | Method and system for continuous integrated resource management A method for continuous real-time management of heterogeneous interdependent resources is described. The method preferably comprises using multiple distributed resource engines to maintain timely and precise schedules, and action controls, and identifying... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5359524 | Method and system for determining an average batch size The present invention includes processing circuitry (11) interfacing with a multi-process environment (10) for performing a method of determining an average batch size. A processor (12) receives input parameters corresponding to characteristics of the mul... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5343387 | Cyclic maintenance work schedule table preparation system A system is provided for the preparation of a cyclic maintenance work schedule table. The system includes a display unit which can show boxes defined by dates in a desired period and the names of individual workers. The system also has a worker data memor... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5321610 | Integrated product for implementing application software and process of developing integrated product for implementing application software A process for developing an integrated implementation product for implementing large packaged application software produces four integrated components. The integrated implementation product includes a plan component, a training component, an user componen... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5321605 | Process flow information management system A memory structure and related method for collecting and maintaining data descriptive of a multiplicity of interrelated process flows is disclosed. A complex memory structure includes job entities, operation entities, and process entities. Operation entit... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5315509 | Artificial intelligence system for item analysis for rework shop orders A computer implemented method facilitates the capability for shop re-work orders to be effectively scheduled, knowing the time and location of item availability that is needed to correct the problem found in the re-work shop orders. The system automatical... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5303144 | Computer aided planning support system The computer aided planning support system of this invention is constructed of a planning information input device from which an object data for making a plan is inputted; an object data storage unit for storing the inputted object data; a planning unit f... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5299115 | Product demand system and method A product-demand production-control system and method stores past-product demand data during past time periods for use with other data to compute product demands in such manner that the past-product demand data is used to estimate the product demands in c... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5295065 | Resource-lot association coordinator An apparatus which efficiently coordinates the association of resource and lot data in a manufacturing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory structure which associates resource and lot data only with other resource and lot data from a ... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5291394 | Manufacturing control and capacity planning system A system and process for allowing virtual allocations of resources to lots to closely mimic actual allocations of resources to lots is disclosed. Virtual allocations represent planned or scheduled allocations of an organization's resources to produce vari... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5289370 | Automated resource allocation method employing a learning arrangement A facility is provided for allocating a constrained common resource among a plurality of demands, in which a recommended solution to such an allocation is achieved by employing partial solutions priorly generated and stored in a database as a result of al... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5283745 | Production execution method A production execution method of the present invention includes the steps of storing in a storage facility at least one kind of material, among various kinds of material used to produce desired goods, calculating a producible quantity of goods based on an... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5278750 | Production schedule making method A method for making a production schedule of an instant process which produces a plurality types of products and supplies the products to a plurality of following processes by trucks. A truck delivery schedule including a number of truck deliveries and ti... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5268838 | Production control system for controlling producing points A production control system controls a plurality of producing points so that products are produced while supplying parts among the producing points. The production control system includes a first producing point which is used as a center producing point a... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5255181 | Method of planning organizational activities A method for translating complex process flow networks into plans or schedules for the manufacturing of products or the performance of other organizational activities is disclosed. The method maintains a time-valued list of existing commitments to resourc... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5235508 | Automated resource allocation cutting stock arrangement using random cut patterns An arrangement is disclosed for allocating a constrained common resource among a plurality of demands for the resource. The arrangement includes generating a set of patterns as candidates for a recommended solution, setting goals or constraints for a patt... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5229948 | Method of optimizing a serial manufacturing system A method of optimizing a multi-stage serial manufacturing system which includes: (a) providing a quantitative state-space model of said serial manufacturing system that describes processing in terms of sensitivity information and performance in terms of p... | 07/20/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5216619 | Path management for a process system The present invention relates to a path management system for regulating equipment resources which moves process material through a process system. The process system includes a control procedure for implementing a specific process application. The path m... | 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 |
| 5197001 | Bill of material and project network processing A method for processing bill of material data in which low-level codes are updated in a bottom-to-top direction, from component items to subassemblies to assemblies. Updating the low-level code on a bottom to top traversal of a hierarchical path eliminate... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5128860 | Manufacturing or service system allocating resources to associated demands by comparing time ordered arrays of data An improved method and system is described for allocating manufacturing or process resources having multiple constraints thereon to meet various time varying manufacturing or service demands having multiple parameter requirements. The demand requirements ... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5126945 | Nonferrous extrusion process control system A control system is provided for coordinating and monitoring material flow through a nonferrous extrusion facility. The system maintains first-in/first-out queues between stations within the facility to improve tracking of the material through the process... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5077661 | Assignment-dependent resource allocation method An iterative, assignment-dependent, method of allocating manufacturing resources to perform operations required in the manufacture of multiple products provides for improved conformance with actual manufacturing situations and for solutions which approxim... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5014208 | Workcell controller employing entity-server model for physical objects and logical abstractions A computer operated controller for controlling and/or monitoring a physical object and a logical abstraction related to the physical object is disclosed. The controller comprises a physical object entity representing the physical object. The physical obje... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4924386 | Methods and apparatus for efficient resource allocation A method and apparatus for optimizing resource allocations is disclosed which utilizes the Karmarkar algorithm to proceed in the interior of the solution space polytope. The values of the allocation variables are limited by upper and lower bounds, either ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4885686 | Methods and apparatus for efficient resource allocation A method and apparatus for optimizing resource allocations is disclosed which utilizes the Karmarkar algorithm to proceed in the interior of the solution space polytope. The constraints on the allocation variables (the surfaces of the polytope) are partit... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4864507 | Method and apparatus for process manufacture control A digital data processing apparatus for manufacturing process control includes input elements for inputting digital signals representative resource elements consumed in a manufacturing process, resource elements produced by the manufacturing process and m... | 09/05/1989 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4744028 | Methods and apparatus for efficient resource allocation A method and apparatus for optimizing resource allocations is disclosed which proceeds in the interior of the solution space polytope instead of on the surface (as does the simplex method), and instead of exterior to the polytope (as does the ellipsoid me... | 05/10/1988 |
| 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 |
