US 8,799,113 B2Granted

Quality management by validating a bill of materials in event-based product manufacturing

AssigneeBinforma Group Limited Liability Company

InventorsCharles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Amy Hancock Boyd, Gary Lee Goggans, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jolene Marie Meissner, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Scott Jeffrey Park, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, John L. Reynders, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten

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Abstract

Providing quality management by validating a bill of materials in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system and method for validating materials during manufacture of a product. Also disclosed are a method of validating that acceptable materials are being used on a machine during manufacture of a product, and one or more computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing a product specification in an event-based manufacturing system. The embodiments are operable in an intelligent manufacturing system including a process for converting raw materials to a product, a process control system including one or more sensors capable of generating an alarm in response to an event that results in one of waste, machine delay, or decrease product quality, a data logger associated with the process control system for obtaining event parameters associated with the event, a database on a server for recording event parameters obtained by the data logger, and a reporting system cooperatively associated with the database for reporting productivity parameters regarding the process derived at least in part from the event parameters.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method for validating materials in a manufacturing control system controlling at least one machine for manufacturing a product, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the manufacturing control system, a bill of materials associated with the product, the bill of materials comprising a specification for manufacturing the product, the specification comprising one or more of the following:
a machine setting and a material specification for a raw material to be used by the machine, wherein obtaining a bill of materials comprises obtaining a transitional bill of materials associated with a transition product to be manufactured by the machine during a grade change, and obtaining data comprises obtaining data associated with a raw material presently loaded in the machine;
obtaining, by the manufacturing control system, data associated with the raw material to be used by the machine in manufacturing the product;
comparing the obtained data with the obtained bill of materials;
validating the raw material, in response to the comparing, to determine whether the raw material is valid for use in manufacturing the product, wherein obtaining data, comparing the obtained data, and validating the raw material occur during an initial manufacture of the product;
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modifying a production operation in the manufacturing control system based on the validating.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/306,883Filed 27 Nov 2002 · us provisional application
Priority: 28 Dec 2001
Published: US 2003/0150909 A114 Aug 2003
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G06Q 10/06
Administration; Management: resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation…
B23Q 35/12
Means for transforming movement of the feeler or the like into feed movement of tool or work: involving electrical means
G05B 13/0285
The criterion being a learning criterion: using neural networks and fuzzy logic
G06N 5/048
Inference or reasoning models: fuzzy inferencing