System and method for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsIngo Thon, Hans-Georg Köpken, Josep Soler Garrido
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Abstract
Provided is a system and method for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process executed by an automation facility, the system including a model memory which stores a probabilistic model of a distribution of object exchange times of objects used or consumed in the automation process; and an optimizer adapted to calculate optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of an object storage magazine depending on the probabilistic model and depending on a sequence of productive non-idle times of objects used or consumed in process steps of the automation process.
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A system for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process executed by an automation facility, the system comprising:
- a model memory which stores a probabilistic model of a distribution of object exchange times of objects used or consumed in the automation process;
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- an optimizer adapted to calculate optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of an object storage magazine depending on the probabilistic model and depending on a sequence of productive non-idle times of objects used or consumed in process steps of the automation process.
A computer-implemented method for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process executed by an automation facility,
- comprising the steps of:
- providing a probabilistic model of a distribution of object exchange times of objects used or consumed in the automation process,
- calculating optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of an object storage magazine depending on the provided probabilistic model (PM) and depending on a sequence of productive non-idle times of objects used or consumed in process steps of the automation process and
- controlling process steps of the automation process in response to the calculated optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of the object storage magazine.
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