US 8,027,857 B2 · Rough-cut manufacturing operations for use in planning

Abstract

An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, models a manufacturing process, and a computer-implemented method that generates and that uses the data structure. The data structure includes a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process. The data structure also includes a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure. The resource capacity requirement structure includes, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed.

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Dependent claims

A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer program product includes instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause an electronic data structure to be generated and to be populated with information that models a manufacturing process, the data structure and the information comprising:

a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process;
a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure and comprising, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed.

A computer-implemented method of generating an electronic data structure and populating the data structure with information that models data to be used in planning the execution of a manufacturing process, the method comprising:

generating, by a computer system, a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined planning-level manufacturing operation comprising an aggregation of a defined group of defined execution-level manufacturing operations, the planned time duration information determined from time duration information associated with each of the grouped execution-level manufacturing operations;
and
generating, by the computer system, a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure and comprising planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined planning-level resource, wherein the planned resource capacity requirement information is determined from resource capacity requirement information associated with execution-level resources included in the defined planning-level resource and that are associated with the grouped execution-level operations included in the defined planning-level operation, the capacity requirement structure further comprising planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined planning-level resource is estimated to be consumed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Rough-cut manufacturing operations for use in planning

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Abstract

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