System and method for classifying wire
AssigneeLincoln Global, Inc.
InventorsNeal R. Nelson, Raymond G. Bender, Yonatan Necoechea
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Abstract
A quantity of wire is associated with a number of interruptions that occurred during the production and/or subsequent processing of the wire. The number of interruptions is used to classify the wire as being of a particular quality and/or suitable for a particular task.
Claims20
A method of classifying a quantity of wire formed by a production process and stored on a storage device, wherein said production process includes at least one of loading a first material for producing the wire, cleaning the first material, drawing the first material through at least one die, plating the first material with a second material, and applying a surface coating to at least one of the first and second material, the method comprising:
- assigning the wire to a first class if a number of interruptions that occurred during the production process is equal to a first value;
- assigning the wire to a second class if the number of interruptions that occurred during the production process is equal to a second value;
- and
- applying indicia to the storage device to indicate which of the first class and the second class the wire belongs, wherein the first value and the second value are different,
- wherein each interruption corresponds to an unintended change in a speed of the production process.
A method of classifying a quantity of wire formed by a production process and stored on a storage device, wherein said production process includes at least one of loading a first material for producing the wire, cleaning the first material, drawing the first material through at least one die, plating the first material with a second material, and applying a surface coating to at least one of the first and second material, the method comprising:
- assigning the wire to a first class if a number of interruptions that occurred during the production process is less than or equal to a first value;
- assigning the wire to a second class if the number of interruptions that occurred during the production process is greater than the first value;
- and
- applying indicia to the storage device to indicate which of the first class and the second class the wire belongs,
- wherein each interruption corresponds to an unintended change in a speed of the production process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.