Compliance tracking method
AssigneeSmithKline Beecham Corporation
InventorsJames William Godfrey, Stanley George Bonney
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Abstract
There is provided a method for automatically tracking compliance in a manufacturing process involving successive manufacturing operations comprising selecting an object; associating an identifier with said object, said identifier comprising a memory; performing a first manufacturing operation relating to the object; following the successful completion of said first manufacturing operation, writing an associated compliance data item to the memory; performing one or more further manufacturing operations relating to the object; and following the successful completion of each said further manufacturing operation or any package thereof, writing an associated compliance data item to the memory.
Claims54
A method for automatically tracking compliance in a manufacturing process involving successive manufacturing operations comprising
- selecting an object;
- associating an identifier with said object, said identifier comprising a memory, wherein the identifier is a radiofrequency identifier comprising an antenna for transmitting or receiving radiofrequency energy;
- and an integrated circuit chip, connecting with said antenna, said chip comprising the memory;
- performing a first manufacturing operation relating to the object;
- following the successful completion of said first manufacturing operation, writing an associated compliance data item to the memory;
- performing one or more further manufacturing operations relating to the object;
- and
- following the successful completion of said one or more further manufacturing operations, writing an associated compliance data item to the memory,
- wherein said object retains said identifier through distribution to consumers.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program comprising code means for, when executed on a computer, instructing said computer to control the steps in a method for automatically tracking compliance in a manufacturing process involving successive manufacturing operations of
- selecting an object;
- associating an identifier with said object, said identifier comprising a memory, wherein the identifier is a radiofrequency identifier comprising an antenna for transmitting or receiving radiofrequency energy;
- and an integrated circuit chip connected with said antenna, said chip comprising the memory;
- performing a first manufacturing operation relating to the object;
- following the successful completion of said first manufacturing operation, automatically writing an associated compliance data item to the memory;
- performing one or more further manufacturing operations relating to the object;
- and
- following the successful completion of said one or more further manufacturing operations, writing an associated compliance data item to the memory.
- wherein said object retains said identifier through distribution to consumers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.