Method and system for disk drive inventory
OwnerDavid S. Burgosinventor
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Abstract
A post manufacturing inventory system to improve disk drive inventory after manufacturing are disclosed. One embodiment provides a computer system having serial number scanning capabilities to scan manufactured disk drive during a post manufacturing inventory count to reconcile with a drive count during manufacturing. In addition, a count verifier is coupled to the scanning unit to enable the inventory control system to verify real-time information read from the disk drives during inventory with pre-stored information pertaining to each drive.
Claims15
A method for conducting post manufacturing inventory of hard disk drive, comprising:
- generating a database of serial numbers uniquely identifying each disk drive manufactured during a pre-inventory manufacturing cycle;
- and
- affixing labels corresponding to said serial numbers to each of said disk drive;
- scanning said labels during an inventory count process to count the number of disk drives during said post manufacturing inventory;
- comparing the scanned disk drive count with the database of serial numbers to reconcile the count of serial numbers with the count of the disk drives.
A hard disk drive post manufacturing inventory control system, comprising:
- a computer system storing a database of pre-inventory serial numbers corresponding to each hard disk drive manufactured during a pre-inventory manufacturing cycle;
- a scanning tool for reading unique identification information affixed to each of said hard disk drives manufactured during the pre-inventory manufacturing cycle, said unique identification information corresponding to said serial numbers;
- a verification unit for verifying inventory count of the hard disk drives during a post manufacturing inventory count with a count of serial numbers in the database of pre-inventory serial numbers;
- and
- a detection unit for detecting any discrepancies between the pre-inventory count of the disk drives and the post manufacturing inventory count of the disk drives.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.