Consumable waste identification
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDean H. Ouchida, Armando Ugarte
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to creating a shipment order comprising a first consumable of a consumable type, calculating an expected waste cost for a second consumable of the consumable type, determining whether a shipping cost for the second consumable exceeds the expected waste cost, and in response to determining that the shipping cost exceeds the expected waste cost, adding the second consumable to the shipment order.
Claims15
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- identify an average waste cost for a consumable type;
- calculate a shipping cost for the consumable type;
- determine whether the shipping cost exceeds the average waste cost;
- and
- in response to determining that the shipping cost exceeds the average waste cost, create a shipment for the consumable type.
A method comprising:
- creating a shipment order comprising a first consumable of a consumable type;
- calculating an expected waste cost for a second consumable of the consumable type;
- determining whether a shipping cost for the second consumable exceeds the expected waste cost;
- and
- in response to determining that the shipping cost exceeds the expected waste cost, adding the second consumable to the shipment order.
The method of claim 10, wherein the expected waste cost is calculated according to a remaining amount of consumable material in the second consumable of the consumable type.
The method of claim 10, wherein the expected waste cost is calculated according to an average amount of discarded consumable material in a plurality of consumables of the consumable type.
A system, comprising:
- a consumable engine to:
- detect a first consumable of a consumable type needs replacement, and
- calculate an expected waste cost for a second consumable of the consumable type;
- and
- a shipment engine to:
- create a shipment order comprising a first consumable of a consumable type;
- determine whether a shipping cost for the second consumable exceeds the expected waste cost, and
- in response to determining that the shipping cost exceeds the expected waste cost, add the second consumable to the shipment order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.