Window or door manufacturing method and apparatus
AssigneeGED Integrated Solutions, Inc.
InventorPaul V. Dorsch
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Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the invention concerns a method of manufacturing a window or a door. Different groups of components are defined. These components combine to form a window or door. The components that make up a group are monitored on a viewing screen during movement of those components through a manufacturing or assembly location. Practice of the invention facilitates setting up and identifying standard and custom groups for the Window and Door Industry. These groups include but are not limited to the following items, Glass, IG Units, Muntins, Gas, Frames, Sashes, Windows Lines and Window Styles. Such visual software helps set up a window manufacturing sequence criteria used for processing the various groups. It allows the set up of various multiple sort levels and sort criteria within the Groups.
Claims32
A method of manufacturing a window or a door product comprising:
- providing a control screen on a viewing monitor for defining a number of manufacturing groups based on a plurality of customer orders for classifying constituent components which combine to form a window or door product;
- and
- providing a production screen on a viewing monitor depicting the constituent components with a group designator corresponding to a constituent component on the production screen during movement of said constituent components through a manufacturing or assembly location producing window or door products from the customer orders.
Apparatus for use in the manufacturing of a window or a door comprising:
- a programmable controller or computer for defining different component groups of constituent components which combine to form a window or door;
- and
- a display for monitoring constituent components and associated group designators within the different component groups on a viewing screen during movement of said constituent components through a manufacturing or assembly process wherein the associated group designators are assigned to constituent components from a plurality of customer orders by the programmable controller or computer in response to receipt of customer orders.
A machine readable medium for use in manufacturing a window or a door comprising instructions for:
- providing a control screen on a viewing monitor for defining a number of manufacturing groups based on a plurality of customer orders for classifying constituent components which combine to form a window or door product;
- and
- providing a production screen on a viewing monitor depicting the constituent components with a group designator corresponding to one of the manufacturing groups on the production screen during movement of said constituent components through a manufacturing or assembly location of the window or door product from the customer orders.
A method of manufacturing window or door products comprising:
- defining a number of manufacturing groups based on the processing of a plurality of customer orders for classifying constituent components for the same or differing groups, which combine to form window or door products;
- sorting constituent components within a group by a sort criteria;
- and
- depicting the constituent components with differing group designators corresponding to one of the manufacturing groups on a viewing screen during the movement of differing groups' constituent components through a manufacturing or assembly location of the window or door products.
A machine readable medium for use in manufacturing a window or a door comprising instructions for:
- defining a number of manufacturing groups based on the processing of a plurality of customer orders for classifying constituent components for the same or differing groups, which combine to form window or door products;
- sorting constituent components within a group by a sort criteria;
- and
- depicting the constituent components with differing group designators corresponding to one of the manufacturing groups on a viewing screen during the movement of differing groups' constituent components through a manufacturing or assembly location of the window or door products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.