Integrated manufacturing system

Patent 5089970 Issued on February 18, 1992. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 5, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Application

No. 417626 filed on 10/05/1989

US Classes:

700/96, Integrated system (Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)700/100, Job scheduling700/107Bill of material

Examiners

Primary: Smith, Jerry
Assistant: Brown, Thomas E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fournier, Jr.; Arthur E.

International Classes

G06F 015/46
G06F 015/16

Abstract

An integrated manufacturing system operative for managing the distribution to a factory floor as well as throughout a factory of the information that is necessary to effectuate the production of products on the factory floor. The information required for this purpose encompasses, but is not necessarily limited to, both the design information which is generated within the engineering enterprise and the scheduling information which is generated within the manufacturing resource planning system. This information consisting of design and manufacturing data pertaining to the product to be produced is in turn stored in a central repository for all shared information from whence as needed it is capable of being distributed in a logical and efficient fashion through operation of the integrated manufacturing system to the factory floor as well as throughout the factory so as to thereby enable the product to be produced on the factory floor in a most timely and most cost-effective manner.