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US 12,681,464 B2Granted
Front end user interface for manufacturing cloud system
AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsDaniel A. Vanbrocklin, Andrew M. Wilber, Alex G. Castle, Michael J. Pantaleano, Jerry L. Foster
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Abstract
A multi-tenant, cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) manufacturing platform offers a variety of industrial applications to end customers—including but not limited to MES, ERP, quality management, supply chain management, and customer relationship management (CRM)—and implements associated architectural features that address a number of issues relating to data sharing, security, scalability, and other concerns.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory that stores executable components;
- and
- a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising:
- internal services that implement a manufacturing cloud system, wherein the manufacturing cloud system is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system that executes an industrial manufacturing execution system (MES) on a cloud platform, and the manufacturing cloud system collects and stores data from industrial systems owned by multiple customer entities;
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- an artificial intelligence (AI) component configured to
- render, on a client device associated with a customer entity of the customer entities, a user interface that visualizes information, generated by the manufacturing cloud system based on analysis of the data, about a manufacturing process executed by an automation system owned by the customer entity,
- generate and deliver, to the user interface, a proactive notification to order a part or material required for the manufacturing process, wherein the AI component generates the proactive notification based on a monitored usage rate of the part or material and a production schedule of the manufacturing process, and
- set a frequency of delivery of the proactive notification to the client device based on application of AI analysis to monitored user interactions with the user interface.
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A method, comprising:
- implementing, by a system comprising a processor, a manufacturing cloud system, wherein the manufacturing cloud system is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system that executes an industrial manufacturing execution system (MES) on a cloud platform, and the manufacturing cloud system collects and stores data from industrial systems owned by multiple customer entities;
- rendering, by the system on a client device associated with a customer entity of the customer entities, a user interface that visualizes information, generated by the manufacturing cloud system based on analysis of the data, about a manufacturing process executed by an automation system owned by the customer entity;
- rendering, by the system on the user interface, a proactive notification to order a part or material required for the manufacturing process based on a monitored usage rate of the part or material and a production schedule of the manufacturing process;
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- setting, by the system, a frequency of delivery of the proactive notification to the client device based on application of AI analysis to monitored user interactions with the user interface.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution, cause system comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- executing a manufacturing cloud system, wherein the manufacturing cloud system is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system that executes an industrial manufacturing execution system (MES) on a cloud platform, and the manufacturing cloud system collects and stores data from industrial systems owned by multiple customer entities;
- rendering, on a client device associated with a customer entity of the customer entities, a user interface that visualizes information, generated by the manufacturing cloud system based on analysis of the data, about a manufacturing process executed by an automation system owned by the customer entity;
- generating and delivering, to the user interface based on a monitored usage rate of a part or material required for the manufacturing process and a production schedule of the manufacturing process, a proactive notification to order a part or material;
- and
- setting a frequency of delivery of the proactive notification to the client device based on application of AI analysis to monitored user interactions with the user interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.