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System and method for automated production of buildings and building components

OwnerPeyman Poostchiinventor

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Abstract

An automated manufacturing system and method is provided. The system includes a software system and a production system. The software system includes a design module, an engineering module, and a manufacturing module for the design, engineering, and subsequent production of a prefabricated building product. The production system includes a matrix of cells and a plurality of robotic production units configurable with a plurality of production tools. The matrix includes a number of columns and a number of rows, each column representing a product to be worked on and each row representing a type of work to be performed on each product. The system processes a building model and configures each cell to perform specific work with one or more robotic production units and one or more production tools. A prefabricated building product is built in stages as it moves from cell to cell.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An automated manufacturing system comprising:

a matrix of production cells;
a first production cell within the matrix of production cells and a second production cell within the matrix of production cells;
a first robotic production unit adapted to move to the first production cell or to the second production cell;
a second robotic production unit adapted to move to the first production cell or to the second production cell;
a first tool configurable with the first robotic production unit and with the second robotic production unit;
a second tool configurable with the first robotic production unit and with the second robotic production unit;
and
a software system configured to process an information model of a product, and based at least in part on the information model, to sort the first production cell and the second production cell in a sequence suitable for building the product, and to assign first work to be performed on the product in the first production cell by the first robotic production unit using the first tool and second work to be performed on the product in the second production cell by the second robotic production unit using the second tool.

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A method for automated manufacturing comprising:

(A) providing a first production cell within a matrix of production cells and a second production cell within the matrix of production cells;
(B) providing a first robotic production unit adapted to move to the first production cell or to the second production cell, and a second robotic production unit adapted to move to the first production cell or to the second production cell;
(C) providing a first tool configurable with the first robotic production unit and with the second robotic production unit, and a second tool configurable with the first robotic production unit and with the second robotic production unit;
(D) using a software system to process an information model of a product;
(E) based at least in part on the information model processed in (D), using the software system to:
(F) sort the first production cell and the second production cell in a sequence suitable for building the product;
(G) assign first work to be performed in the first production cell by the first robotic production unit using the first tool;
and
(H) assign second work to be performed in the second production cell by the second robotic production unit using the second tool.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/370,741Filed 8 Jul 2021 · us provisional application
Priority: 9 Jul 2020
Published: US 2022/0156424 A119 May 2022
Granted: 17 Oct 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

G05B 19/0426
Using digital processors: programming the control sequence
G06F 30/13
Geometric CAD: architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes,…
G05B 19/41805
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 19/41865
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…