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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8055369 | Optimized deployment of parts in a distribution network A method for deploying parts is disclosed. Locations that include supply locations and demand locations are defined. A supply location supplies parts to a demand location. A demand is computed for each part at each location. An availability lead-time is estimated fo... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8027745 | Non-linear, animated, interactive assembly guide and method for controlling production A non-linear, animated, interactive assembly guide, and a method and system for creating, using, and managing non-linear, animated, interactive assembly guides to facilitate the assembly of one or more articles of manufacture. The method includes identifying the par... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7653452 | Methods and computer systems for reducing runtimes in material requirements planning Methods and computer systems are provided for reducing the runtime of a material requirements planning run. In one embodiment, a computer system loads a plurality of bills of materials into a data structure. The computer system may analyze parent-child relationships... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7610112 | Method for manufacturing with engineering change override The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing orders. A request for delivery by a requested delivery date is received for an order having an original delivery date. The ordered product ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7546176 | Method and apparatus for determining a solution group of parts in an assembly A method of forming an assembly from a plurality of components, the plurality of components each having a component volume and a respective locus point, is described. The method includes selecting a target volume by defining a target volume and respective locus poin... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7519445 | Method and apparatus for determining a solution group of parts in an assembly A method for determining a solution group of parts among a plurality of parts in an assembly, the solution group being situated substantially proximate to at least one target part of the plurality of parts, each respective part of the plurality of parts being identi... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7487001 | Method, system and computer program product for computer-assisted furnishing of materials in elevator construction A method, a system and a computer program product for computer-assisted furnishing of materials in elevator construction, wherein materials are provided with a readable or writable data transmitter, these materials are furnished, data of the data transmitter are wri... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7437205 | Method for manufacturing with engineering change override The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing orders. A request for delivery by a requested delivery date is received for an order having an original delivery date. The ordered product ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426418 | Systems and methods for calculating alerts based on pegging A system and method for performing supply chain planning, includes providing a plurality of demand orders, each demand order including at least one input interface node, each input interface node identifying a type of material required by said demand order, a quanti... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418307 | System and process for supply management for the assembly of expensive products A Managing component supply for complex products is achieved by monitoring the delivery performance of component suppliers and optimizing the times at which orders are placed. Supply delivery performance targets are set for each supplier, and component order times a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398130 | Ordering/order receiving system An MRP explosion portion calculates the amount of common and optional parts necessary for producing a forecasted sales amount of products. An amount correlated with actual results of received product orders is added to the amount of optional parts. The delivery amou... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7376489 | Method of identifying fluid purification equipment which is optimized for individual fluid purification systems An interactive method and apparatus are disclosed through which a fluid purification system operator inputs the system's parameters and the method then identifies one or more fluid purification equipment packages which will be optimized at the component level to the... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376478 | Achieving perceived reliability for repairable systems A method to achieve perceived reliability for repairable systems including goal setting of different phases of the product life cycle. The method includes consideration of a plurality of product life cycle phases to determine a plurality of failure rate multipliers ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369910 | Method for the optimizing of a production process The present invention relates to methods for optimizing a production process having starting products, intermediate products and at least one final product. The present invention also relates to a digital storage medium and a computer program product that can be use... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369913 | Recipe editor and controller Apparatus and methods for automating a sequence of basic chemistry operations through a recipe. Software running on a workstation communicating with a controller allows an operator to operate the process controller, view the process, log the process, and maintain th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356482 | Integrated change management unit An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medic... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340350 | Methods and systems for deriving chemical compositions that are present in a chemical product and for determining compliance of chemical products with government regulations The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media for deriving chemical compositions that are present in a chemical product to be manufactured and for determining whether the chemical product complies with government regulations. A metho... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337031 | Optimized deployment of parts in a distribution network A method for deploying parts is disclosed. Locations that include supply locations and demand locations are defined. A supply location supplies parts to a demand location. A demand is computed for each part at each location. An availability lead-time is estimated fo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333945 | Chemical product acquisition system A computerized data processing system can assist a user in locating specialty chemical products having particular intrinsic properties specified by the user. The system can query a database to identify commercially available chemical product(s) that best conform to ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333870 | Self-adjusting inventory management process for personalizing and re-personalizing parts A process for managing a supply chain by automatically analyzing shifting demand for personalized parts is provided. A plurality of orders is received. The plurality orders form a demand. The demand results in a set of parts that need to be personalized. The demand ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330846 | System and method for facilitating a distributed search of local and remote systems A system and method for performing a distributed search in response to a user request. In response to a search request received from a user at a local server, a request is spawned and transmitted to a remote site to search information at the remote site. Substantial... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324860 | Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a cascading timeline of manufacturing events leading to completion of a manufactured product A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a cascading timeline of manufacturing events leading to completion of a manufactured product is disclosed. A cascading timeline, or waterfall chart, is updated and distributed weekly to provide week-to-wee... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321310 | Method and system for agricultural data collection and management A system and method for agricultural data collection and management is described to provide quality assurance source verification data and performance tracking for agricultural items throughout the production cycle. Individual item data is efficiently collected, tra... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321803 | System and processes for performing quick changeovers on assembly lines An improved method for instructing how to most efficiently effect a product changeover on an assembly line includes the steps of providing an instructional animation which schematically shows the steps which are to be taken by a plurality of workers to effect the ch... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321804 | Method for process-driven bill of material The present invention is directed to systems and methods for compiling production and planning information. In one embodiment, a system for planning the production of a product includes at least one database configured to store engineering information related to the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7302467 | Information processing device and information processing method, service providing system, and computer-executable program for the same A community, which is a group of users having common interests, has attributes such as the name of the community, the interests shared, the number of members, average age of the members, gender ratio of the members, and so forth. Corporations provide services to the... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295940 | Process control system to manage materials used in construction Systems and methods are disclosed for designing and tracking construction material usage by estimating volumetric properties for one or more mix designs; determining an optimum mix based on laboratory data; and field testing a sample of the optimum mix; and tracking... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293707 | Inventory management system for reducing overall warehouse and pipeline inventory A computer system for use in reducing overall pipeline inventory within a distribution network that includes a central warehouse that is: (1) adjacent a transportation hub; and (2) configured to store sufficient component parts to provide a regular stream of parts t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291285 | Method and system for line-dimension control of an etch process A method and system for controlling a dimension of an etched feature. The method includes: measuring a mask feature formed on a top surface of a layer on a substrate to obtain a mask feature dimension value; and calculating a mask trim plasma etch time based on the ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292991 | Disambiguating point-of-sale data through item indexing A point-of-sale interface receives point-of-sale quantities for a number of individual items, as well as point-of-sale quantity for a miscellaneous group item that includes undifferentiated sales of one or more of the individual items. An item indexer calculates an ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289968 | Forecasting demand for critical parts in a product line A method of forecasting the demand for components used to manufacture a plurality of different devices is presented. The method determines a production quantity of each of the devices planned to be manufactured, analyzes each of the devices to produce exploded lists... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280882 | Systems and methods for forecasting demand for a subcomponent Techniques for determining how to translate forecast sales data of at least one configuration of assembled product into a forecast schedule of subcomponents composing the assembled product is described. To this end, forecast sales data of at least one configuration ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280881 | Method and system for reducing lead-time in the packaging industry A system for integrating a packaging supply chain from a point that a digital contract proof is available through delivery of finished packaging materials to an end user, wherein said system comprises a computer system accessible for interactive communications with ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280879 | Interfaces from external systems to time dependent process parameters in integrated process and product engineering A method and apparatus for computer modeling the production process is disclosed. An integrated product and process engineering system may be a computer modeling system that models both a generic production process and a specific individual production process. The i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260443 | System and program for making recipe and method for manufacturing products by using recipe A system for making a recipe for each of manufacturing tools used to manufacture products includes a merging unit merging product information for the products and process information for each of manufacturing processes used for the products to make intermediate reci... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257559 | Material sales system A computer (10) of a material supply company calculates a sales price of a material according to a state of production of a product, which is produced using a material supplied from the material supply company, and informs a computer (30) of a result o... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251583 | Minimizing use of parts that will reach their end of life prior to the products for which those parts are usable Use of parts in products is managed to minimize the use of parts that will reach their end of life prior to the products for which those parts are usable. To manage use of a part, end of life data for the part is estimated and compared to the actual or projected end... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251569 | Method and apparatus for determining material breakdown and product compliance Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing a product are disclosed. The product includes parts supplied by suppliers. Each part includes materials, each material includes substances, and each substance has a respective substance amount. A database... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251539 | Parts procurement system and method A virtual production line indicating an object (e.g., a vehicle) sequence for an actual production line and objects (e.g., vehicles) planned in the future is updated based on a long-term production plan, a fixed production plan, and actual production results. Then, ... | 07/31/2007 |
