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US 2007/0177965 A1Published application
Method for storing rolls of material
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHarald Gretsch, Lothar Hohmann, Erwin Lehrieder, Josef Olbort
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Abstract
Rolls of prepared, and of unprepared materials, for use in a web-processing machine, are stored in a warehouse. Information that is used to anticipate consumption data for an impending production period, or anticipated consumption data, is supplied to a material flow system that includes implemented logic. A warehousing strategy is defined in a sub-process which uses the anticipated consumption data and a current inventory.
Claims35
1-36. (canceled)
A method for storing unprepared and prepared rolls of material for use by a material-processing machine including:
- providing a material flow system;
- providing an implemented logic device in said material flow system;
- providing said material flow system with information regarding one of a prognosis of use data for a pending production period to be examined by said material-processing machine and use data derived by prognosis;
- determining an actual stock on hand in said depot;
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- determining, in a first partial process of said material flow system, a storage strategy using said data obtained by prognosis and said actual stock on hand.
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