Hide customization systems and methods
AssigneeNational Beef Packing Company, LLC
InventorsRobert Horst Hein, Kenneth Graham Press
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Abstract
Methods and systems for customizing hides are provided. In particular, one or more embodiments comprise a tanning control system that improves profitability and customer satisfaction by facilitating the customization of hides according to customer orders. Furthermore, one or more embodiments enable the tanning control system to improve efficiency and responsiveness by producing packages of hides that exactly match customer orders. Additionally, one or more embodiments enhance the traceability of hides by capturing data related to the customization of hides.
Claims20
A method of customizing hides comprising:
- accessing, from customer data storage of a tanning control system, electronic customer order information associated with a first customer order;
- identifying, using a customer order manager of the tanning control system, one or more hide characteristics within the electronic customer order information;
- selecting, using a hide manager of the tanning control system, a group of hides that corresponds to the one or more hide characteristics, the group of hides located at one or more hide inventory sources;
- identifying, using the customer order manager of the tanning control system, a specification within the electronic customer order information that indicates one or more customizations to perform with respect to one or more hides of the group of hides;
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- performing, based on the identified specification and using a customization manager of the tanning control system, the one or more customizations to transform the one or more hides of the group of hides by providing a specification communication to a customization controller of a customized processing system, wherein the customized processing system further comprises at least one of a wetting drum, a wringing device, a splitting device, a trimming device, or a folding device.
A system comprising:
- one or more computing devices;
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- a non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more computing devices, cause the system to:
- access, from customer data storage of a tanning control system, electronic customer order information associated with a first customer order;
- identify, using a customer order manager of the tanning control system, one or more hide characteristics within the electronic customer order information;
- select, using a hide manager of the tanning control system, a group of hides that corresponds to the one or more hide characteristics;
- identify, using the customer order manager of the tanning control system, a specification within the electronic customer order information that indicates one or more customizations to perform with respect to one or more hides of the group of hides;
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- perform, based on the identified specification and using a customization manager of the tanning control system, the one or more customizations to transform the one or more hides of the group of hides by providing a specification communication to a customization controller of a customized processing system, wherein the customized processing system further comprises at least one of a wetting drum, a wringing device, a splitting device, a trimming device, or a folding device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.