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US 11,598,801 B2Granted
Method for manufacturing system analysis and/or maintenance
AssigneeArch Systems Inc.
InventorsTimothy Matthew Burke, Andrew Galen Scheuermann
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Abstract
A method for factory analysis and/or maintenance, preferably including receiving factory information and/or associating defects with factory components, and optionally including acting based on defect associations and/or operating factory machines. The method is preferably associated with one or more manufacturing systems and/or elements thereof.
Claims21
A method for manufacturing system maintenance, comprising:
- receiving information associated with manufacturing, at a manufacturing system, of a plurality of products, the information indicative of a set of defects detected in products of the plurality;
- wherein, for each defect of the set, the information comprises a respective set of location information indicative of a respective defective product component;
- for each defect of the set:
- based on the respective defective product component, automatically determining a respective set of components of the manufacturing system, wherein each component of the respective set has interacted with the defective product component;
- and
- for each component of the respective set, based on the link between the component and the defect, increasing a respective defect link sum associated with the component;
- and
- based on the defect link sums, controlling maintenance of the manufacturing system.
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A method for manufacturing system maintenance, comprising:
- receiving information associated with manufacturing, at a manufacturing system, of a plurality of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), each PCBA comprising a respective set of surface-mount technology (SMT) components, the information indicative of a set of defects detected in PCBAs of the plurality;
- wherein, for each defect of the set, the information comprises a respective set of location information indicative of a respective SMT component associated with the defect;
- for each defect of the set:
- based on the respective SMT component, automatically determining a respective set of components of the manufacturing system, wherein each component of the respective set has interacted with the SMT component;
- and
- for each component of the respective set, based on the link between the component and the defect, increasing a respective defect link sum associated with the component;
- based on the defect link sums, determining manufacturing system maintenance information;
- and
- providing the manufacturing system maintenance information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.