Method and apparatus for industrial data acquisition and product costing
September 19, 2016. 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.Patent ReferencesTelephone system for connecting a customer to a supplier of goods Directional information system Integrated group insurance information processing and reporting system based upon an enterprise-wide data structure Relational database management system and method for storing, retrieving and modifying directed graph data structures Data analysis system and method for industrial process control systems Automated manufacturing costing system and method Workflow management and control system Computer driven systems and methods for managing data which use two generic data elements and a single ordered file System and method for executing panel actions from procedures Materials selector tool InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 715552 filed on 09/19/1996US Classes:705/28, Inventory management705/29, Itemization of parts, supplies, or services (e.g., bill of materials)707/1, DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING707/10, Distributed or remote access707/100DATABASE SCHEMA OR DATA STRUCTUREExaminersPrimary: Peeso, Thomas R.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassH04L 027/00AbstractAn information storage, processing, and reporting system (20) for tracing enterprise wide product data, the system comprises a data storage (23, 26, 50) is adapted for storing data (106, 120, 112, 108) entries related to a product family. The data is received in a data warehouse system (42). The data is cataloged (54, 56, 58, 62). Cataloging the related data includes identifying data elements related to selected product families. The system indexes (70, 140, 144, 148, 149, 159, 169, 179) the identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with the data representative thereof. Interconnected tables 140, 144, 148, 149, 159, 169, 179 are used for grouping indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion. A storage medium (50) is adapted for storing the grouped data elements in a relational database (52). A digital processor (44) processes (36, 38, 116, 128) the grouped data elements in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria. The memory medium (50) is adapted for storing the processed data (122, 110, 114, 124, 56, 54) in a relational database structure (52).Other References
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