Rough-cut manufacturing operations for use in planning

US8027857B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Jochen Steinbach · Bad Schönborn, DE
• Klaus Reinelt · Gondelsheim, DE
• Tesfaldet Negash · Leimen, DE
• Arno Eifel · Eppelborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, models a manufacturing process, and a computer-implemented method that generates and that uses the data structure. The data structure includes a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process. The data structure also includes a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure. The resource capacity requirement structure includes, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed.