Framework for manufacturing logistics decision support

US5787283A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Goodwin R. Chin · Palo Alto, US
• Walter Dietrich · Yorktown Heights, US
• Thomas Robert Ervolina · Poughquag, US
• John Peter Fasano · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Elizabeth Jodi Poole · Garrison, US
• Jung-Mu Tang · South Salem, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 1995
• Grant date: Jul 28, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99948
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A tool including a framework suitable for manufacturing logistics decision support. The tool comprises means for providing an object-oriented technology framework, the framework comprising: means for defining objects representing manufacturing logistics problems; means for transforming a subject of the above objects into representations commonly used in a mathematical solver, wherein the representations in the solver have predefined relationships based on their properties; and, means responsive to selective changes in the objects for modifying the behavior of the framework for developing anew manufacturing logistics decision support application.