Versatile production system
US5434792A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 8, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 18, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 8, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P90/02
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A versatile production system, to produce multiple kinds of products including small quantities of products, by supplying work order sheets to personnel in the line transmitted via a production management system, and by transmitting defective product data at each working process to a quality control system. The production system comprises assembling sites and testing sites for testing and inspecting the performance or the quality of an assembled product, at least one line terminal installed at each of the assembling sites and the testing sites, an ID card attached to a product to match the flow of an article and manufacturing data, including a type and a parts number for each product, while being transported, a line host controller that reads the data from the ID card via the line terminals, outputs work order sheets for operators via the line terminals, outputs a test result report containing test-inspection record data for each product, and outputs a delivery order sheet for preparation packing to a packing site via a Local Area Network, and a line host control terminal connected to the line host controller.
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