Self organizing industrial control system importing neighbor constraint ranges
March 3, 2019. 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 ReferencesMethod and apparatus for discrete activity resourse allocation through cardinality constraint generation Apparatus and method for production planning System, utilized in scheduling, or the like, for satisfying constraints by allowing relaxation of constraints Method and apparatus for resource constraint scheduling Rapid product realization process Method for creating a direct hot charge rolling production schedule at a steel plant Strategy driven planning system and method of operation Process control system using a process control strategy distributed among multiple control elements Process flow design at the module effects level through the use of acceptability regions Method of allocating work in capacity planning InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 261275 filed on 03/03/1999US Classes:700/103, Constraints or rules700/109Quality controlExaminersPrimary: Grant, WilliamAssistant: Rapp, Chad Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 019/00AbstractAn industrial control system uses a number of autonomous control units, each associated with one piece of equipment in an industrial process. The autonomous control units include data indicating not only their constraints of operation but also reflecting the constraints of operation of machines to which they are attached and with which they share common operating parameters. An autonomous controller associated with a machine having operating parameters in common with another machine adopts the intersection of the ranges of the machine constraint of the two machines. Machine constraints are preserved to the extent possible as ranges so as to permit flexibility in selecting and seeking goals by the individual autonomous control units.Field of SearchProduct assembly or manufacturingDesign or planning Job scheduling Priority ordering Job release determination Constraints or rules Rework or engineering change Quality control Product tracking (e.g., having product or carrier identification) Having identification controlled manufacturing operation | |
