G05B 19/418
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines
Official title: Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
G05B19/418 (Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines) appears on 10,631 US grants and 13,347 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05B- Granted patents
- 10,631
- Published applications
- 13,347
- Assignees
- 3,198
- Inventors
- 25,838
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 10 | 0 |
| 1982 | 11 | 0 |
| 1983 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 27 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 38 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 45 | 0 |
| 1993 | 63 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 50 | 0 |
| 1998 | 116 | 0 |
| 1999 | 97 | 0 |
| 2000 | 75 | 0 |
| 2001 | 106 | 35 |
| 2002 | 111 | 192 |
| 2003 | 165 | 191 |
| 2004 | 187 | 251 |
| 2005 | 188 | 248 |
| 2006 | 229 | 275 |
| 2007 | 176 | 264 |
| 2008 | 145 | 291 |
| 2009 | 166 | 279 |
| 2010 | 202 | 258 |
| 2011 | 218 | 196 |
| 2012 | 165 | 195 |
| 2013 | 170 | 249 |
| 2014 | 184 | 288 |
| 2015 | 209 | 419 |
| 2016 | 235 | 445 |
| 2017 | 341 | 495 |
| 2018 | 399 | 825 |
| 2019 | 620 | 994 |
| 2020 | 785 | 1042 |
| 2021 | 758 | 986 |
| 2022 | 843 | 1250 |
| 2023 | 867 | 1191 |
| 2024 | 868 | 1048 |
| 2025 | 858 | 822 |
| 2026 | 571 | 618 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G05B 19/41865Characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow2,341
- G05B 19/4185Characterised by the network communication2,043
- G05B 19/41875Characterised by quality surveillance of production1,906
- G05B 19/4183Characterised by data acquisition1,572
- G05B 19/41885Characterised by modeling, simulation of the manufacturing system1,027
- G05B 19/4189Characterised by the transport system990
- G05B 19/4184Characterised by fault tolerance, reliability of production system896
- G05B 19/41815Characterised by the cooperation between machine tools, manipulators and conveyor or other860
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