Adaptive workstation assembly in production processing

US10108186B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Willi Klumpp · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Matthias Reichenbach · Stuttgart, DE
• Matthias Schreiber · Kleinglattbach, DE
• Volker Zipter · Stuttgart, DE
• Michael Zuern · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2018
• Expiry date: May 14, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method to operate a production plant having a plurality of work regions in which respective work stations are arranged to carry out at least on respective work step, and having at least one transport system that transports goods to be processed on at least one predetermined path between the work stations, involves selecting the arrangement of the work stations, the work step that is able to be carried out by the respective work station, and the at least one predetermined path according to at least one predetermined criterion that is related to a production requirement, and adapting these due to a change of the at least one criterion.