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US 2016/0279880 A1Published application
Determine a manufacturing batch
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJun Zeng, Sunil Kothari, Gary J. Dispoto
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a manufacturing batch. In one implementation, the manufacturing batch relates to 3D printing. A processor may determine component parts of a product that. In one implementation, a processor determines a batch of the component parts related to different products based on a comparison to other potential batches.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- determining a first potential batch of parts to be manufactured by 3D printing technology, wherein the parts are associated with multiple products;
- determining part placement of the parts in the first potential batch;
- validating the first potential batch, wherein the validation comprises determining the distance between parts in the part placement;
- determining a score associated with the first potential batch;
- comparing the score of the first potential batch to scores associated with other potential batches;
- and
- selecting the first batch for output to a 3D printer based on the score comparison.
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A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to:
- determine the amount of support material used to create different sets of D printing batches of the same set of parts;
- determine assembly information for the different sets of batches;
- and
- select one of the sets of batches for output based on a comparison of the amount of support material and assembly information associated with the sets of batches.
1 more element
A computing system, comprising:
- a storage to store information related to manufacturing practices of past products;
- a processor to:
- determine patterns of component parts associated with different products based on the stored information:
- determine individual components of a current product for manufacturing based on the determined patterns;
- and
- determine a batch of the determined components to be manufactured together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.