US 2008/0154411 A1 · Consistency Checking and Repair of Manufacturing Operation Groupings to be Aggregated for use in Planning

Abstract

Generating data used in planning the execution of a manufacturing process includes consistency checks that are performed on proposed groupings of manufacturing operations to make sure that the groupings are defined in a way that enables the information to be aggregated for use in planning. To do this, defined groupings are received for multiple execution-level manufacturing operations that are defined in a manufacturing process execution-level electronic data model and that define a process flow to produce a product. In one aspect, for each of the defined groupings, it is determined whether the defined grouping includes multiple occurrences of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps, and if so, the defined groupings are changed so that each defined grouping of the defined groupings has no more than a single occurrence of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for generating electronic data for use in planning the execution of a manufacturing process, the method comprising:

receiving defined groupings for multiple execution-level manufacturing operations that are defined in a manufacturing process execution-level electronic data model and that define a process flow to produce a product;
determining, for each of the defined groupings, whether the defined grouping includes multiple occurrences of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps, and if so, changing the defined groupings so that each defined grouping of the defined groupings has no more than a single occurrence of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps;
and
generating the electronic data for use in planning execution of the manufacturing process using the changed defined groupings for the multiple execution-level manufacturing operations.

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A computer-implemented method for generating electronic data for use in planning the execution of a manufacturing process, the method comprising:

receiving defined groupings for multiple execution-level manufacturing operations that are defined in a manufacturing process execution-level electronic data model and that define a process flow to produce a product;
determining, for each of the defined groupings, whether the defined grouping includes any parallel paths where at least one path has a grouping boundary defined within the path and there are not grouping boundaries at a location immediately before the parallel paths and at the end of every parallel path, and if so, changing the defined groupings to define missing grouping boundaries at a location immediately before the parallel paths and at the end of every parallel path;
and
generating the electronic data for use in planning execution of the manufacturing process using the changed defined groupings for the multiple execution-level manufacturing operations.

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Consistency Checking and Repair of Manufacturing Operation Groupings to be Aggregated for use in Planning

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Consistency Checking and Repair of Manufacturing Operation Groupings to be Aggregated for use in Planning

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Abstract

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