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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMarc Philippe MAILMAN, Michael WHITE, Cynthia DECKER
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Provided are a system and method for managing work in process at a manufacturing site. In one example, a management device includes an interface to receive a request for a work order that includes one or more components for manufacture, a processor to determine a manufacturing progress of the work order, and determine a time at which the work order is to be completed based on the manufacturing progress of the work order and a status at least one work queue associated with manufacturing at least one remaining component of the work order, and an output to display a work in process (WIP) report of the work order including the time at which the work order is to be completed. According to various aspects, the predicted time of completion for a work order can be provided at the time the work order is placed or soon thereafter.
A management device for managing a manufacturing process, the management device comprising:
A method for managing a manufacturing process, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions that when executed cause a computer to perform a method for managing a manufacturing process, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.