Internet-based process optimization system and method

US6668272B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey Stanley Keller · Cincinnati, US
• Gary L. Hundley · Hamilton, US
• Patricia A. Charles · Hamilton, US
• Richard M. Gillespie · Florence, US
• Carl G. Fryman · Covington, US
• Christopher R. Hammond · Schenectady, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 23, 2003
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B23P6/002
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process optimization system and method uses a computer network, particularly the Internet, to standardize a process performed at a number of geographically separated locations while assuring optimal use of available process technology. The system includes at least one central server computer system and at least one client-user computer station at each location. Data relating to the process is inputted into the server computer system using any one of the client-user computer stations. The server computer system the uses the data to determine an optimal approach to the process and displays the optimal approach on the client-user computer station used to input the data.