Method and system for providing process protocols for physical objects

US11914346B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Celonis SE · DE

Inventors

• Martin Klenk · Munich, DE
• Alexander Rinke · Munich, DE
• Bastian Nominacher · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2020
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2024
• Expiry date: Aug 16, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K7/143
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of providing process protocols for physical objects, which pass through several production/processing stations in a production/processing line, is provided. In such a method, machine-readable data for uniquely identifying an object are assigned to the object, a reading means is arranged at a production/processing station, by which machine-readable data can be read, a time stamp is assigned to the data, and a process protocol is generated from the machine-readable data, an assignment of the data to the station and/or to the reading means and the time stamp. Each data set describes a process step of a process, and comprises at least a first attribute, in which a unique identification of a process is stored, a second attribute, in which an identification of the process step is stored, and a third attribute, in which a sequence of the process steps within a process is stored.