An Industrial Tannery System (DT), attachable to a Batch (LOkr) of Tannery Hides (1ij) that it constitutes;
- a) for the constitution of a Tannery Batch (LOkr),
- i) made from the combination of Tannery Hides (1ij), of an Industrial Ecosystem (E) of Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi)
- ii) then having to undergo a later Transformation Stage (Se) of this Batch, in particular by cutting the Hides into Pieces (J), with a view to a subsequent assembly (Sf) of the Pieces for the manufacture of finished industrial products (41), such as car seats, shoes, leather goods, etc., by an Industrial Integrator (AK);
- b) to physically select this Batch and its Hides according to three characteristic specifications, jointly defined by a Request (RAkr) defining in alphanumeric form the Request Criteria (CRkr) requested by the Industrial Integrator (Ak) performing the Transformation Stage (Se):
- i) the Batch Size (SR), i.e. the number of Hides in the Batch, being defined by a volume parameter (PVkr),
- ii) the requested topological quality characteristic of all Hides, defined by their homogeneous grade parameter (Gkr), and,
- iii) an overall technical characteristic (SFV, EPV) of all the Hides combined in the Batch,
- defined by a statistical numerical Constraint Parameter (PN) of all the Hides in the Batch,
- such as for example the surface area variance (SFV), or the thickness variance (EPV), of all the Hides in the Batch;
- c) to constitute and supply this Batch (LOkr) of Grade (Gkr), intended for the subsequent Transformation Stage (Se);
- by the particular physical Selection of Hides, which provides the technical effect of simultaneously respecting the following two constraints:
- i) the Batch Size (SR) is greater than the number of Hides (1ij) of Grade (Gkr) of each individual Tannery (Fi);
- and,
- ii) the reached value of the Constraint Parameter (PN) of the Batch Selection is either minimum or maximum, with respect to the possible combinations of sub-batches (Sim) of the Grade (Gkr) Hides of all the Tanneries (1ij);
- d) This being done in order to increase the productivity of the Batch (LOkr) transforming factory;
- This System (DT) being of the type constituted by the combination between:
- e) a Computer Network (RL) for digital linking;
- f) a Platform (CL), online on the internet,
- i) connected to the Computer Network (RL) for digital linking,
- ii) equipped with computerized Means for Requests Processing (15), that include computer-readable programming means configured
- to digitally receive and process the alphanumeric Request (RAkr) for the supply of the Batch made by the Industrial Integrator (Ak),
- when the said Means for Requests Processing (15) are in operation;
- and,
- g) a multitude of Tanneries (F1, . . . , Fi),
- i) one of which, referred to as said at least one Tannery (F1), is connected to the Computer Network (RL) for digital linking,
- ii) each ensuring tanning stages (Sa, Sb, Sc, Sd) processing, with a random quality of tannery Hides (1ij), between raw hides originating from slaughterhouses and hides in a finished skin state, to be subsequently supplied per Batch as raw product to Industrial Integrators (Ak), for a Transformation Stage (Se) by subsequent cutting,
- iii) of which said at least one Tannery (F1, Fi) is equipped, with computerized Means for Producing Primary Images (18i) of the tannery Hides (1ij), which include,
- an Image Digitizing Scanner (19i), located in the production zone of the tannery (Fi),
- and,
- computer-readable programming means configured to carry out the automatic digital optical acquisition (TODij) of a raw Primary Image File (FBij) by scanning each of the Hides (1ij) to be graded from the tannery (Fi), when the Means for Producing Primary Images (18i) are in operation;
- and,
- h) computerized Means for Storing Primary Images (20i), which include computer-readable programming means, configured
- i) to record the Primary Image Files (FBij) of the Hides (1ij) of the Tannery (Fi), in the memory of a Factory Inventory Database (Bi);
- ii) when said computerized Means for Storing Primary Images (20i) are in operation;
- i) computerized Means of Primary Image Processing (21),
- i) connected by the Computer Network (RL) for digital linking to said at least one Tannery (F1, Fi),
- ii) which include computer-readable programming means configured to perform:
- the automatic digital Processing by Shape Recognition (TNFij) of the Primary Image Files (FBij) of each Hide (1ij) to be graded,
- and the identification in the Primary Image File (FBij) of the topological identifiers (ITij) of the type and/or position of the topological defects of the Hides (1ij) to be graded, in the form of a vector Secondary Image File (FSij) of each Hide (1ij) to be graded,
- when said computerized Means of Primary Image Processing (21) are in operation;
- j) a shape processing computer server (SF)
- i) connected to the Computer Network (RL) for digital linking,
- ii) including a topological database (BF) in which the Secondary Image Files (FSij) are memorized;
- k) computerized Grading Means (23),
- i) connected to the Computer Network (RL) for digital linking,
- ii) located within a grading computer server (SG),
- iii) which include computer-readable programming means configured to dynamically perform,
- a programmed digital Grading Process (TDGij), for the dynamic determination of the topological quality Grade (Gij) for the Hides (1ij) to be graded, from their Secondary Image File (FSij), and,
- the memorization of the grades (Gij) into a grades database (BG) of the grading computer server (SG),
- when said computerized Grading Means (23) are in operation;
- This Tannery System (DT) being characterized in that in addition and in combination:
- l) its Computer Network (RL) connects the online Platform (CL)
- i) to at least two tanneries, said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), thus interconnected, remote from each other, and remote from the platform (CL),
- ii) and to at least two Image Digitizing Scanners (19i), each positioned in the production zone of a different one of the said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2);
- m) it includes computerized Means for Storing Primary Images (20i);
- configured to record the primary image files (Fbij) of the Hides (1ij) of each of said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), in the memory of the factory inventory database (Bi);
- n) it includes computerised Means for Filtering (25) by the Grade (G) of all the Hides (1ij) available from said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), according to a Complying Selection Process (TSCkr), of the type which include computer-readable programming means,
- configured
- i) to select the Combined-Subset (SCkr),
- made up of Hides (1ij) from said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), all complying with the requested Grade (Gkr) of the Batch, defined by the Request (RAkr), and,
- constituted by the combination of a multitude of (at least two) Complying Fractions (FC1, . . . , FCi), each made up of the Hides of Grade (Gkr) from one of said at least two different Tanneries (1ij),
- ii) when said computerized Means for Filtering (25) are in operation;
- o) it includes computerized Means of Batch Optimization (26), which include computer-readable programming means, for performing an under-constraint parametric optimization (OPCkr), by digital processing, of the Selections of the combined Batch (LOkr) of Hides (1ij) originating from said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), according to the Constraint Parameter (PN), defined by the Request (RAkr), and which to this end are of the type configured:
- i) to successively perform Selections, each made of a Collection of size (SR), each parametrized by a variable numeric n-tuple (N(x)), defining and combining in a variable manner a plurality of Complying Sub-Fractions (Si1, . . . , Sim), each extracted from some of the (at least two) Complying-Fractions (FCi) of the Combined-Sub-Set (SCkr) of Hides from the said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi) constituted by the computerized Filtrating Means (25), and combined with each other,
- ii) to determine, for each generated numerical n-tuple (N(x)), and therefore for each combined Selection of Complying Sub-Fractions (Si1, . . . , Sim) of the said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), the value reached of the numerical Constraint Parameter (PN) of said global statistical characteristic of all the Hides of the Selection taken together, and,
- iii) to constitute the Batch (LOkr) optimized by the particular physical Selection of combined Complying Sub-Fractions (Si1, . . . , Sim) of Hides from the said at least two Tanneries (F1, F2, Fi), which maximizes or minimizes among all the Selections the numerical Constraint Parameter (PN), determined over this entire multi-tanneries Batch,
- a) when said computerized Means of Batch Optimization (26) are in operation.