Distributed production control

US7093756B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Gordon Muehl · Espelkamp, DE
• Klaus Irle · Walldorf, DE
• Walter G. Kienle · St. Leon-Rot, DE
• Knut Heusermann · Bad Schönborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2006
• Expiry date: Nov 20, 2022

Classification

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

Abstract

Techniques for distributed production control include tagging unfinished products with electronically accessible production information that identifies aspects in which the products are to be produced differently. The production information is used to control an aspect of the production of a given product.