Electronic supervisor

US8594822B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Southwire Company, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jackie McGuinn · Villa Rica, US
• Tom Stephens · Carrollton, US
• Steve Wilson · Carrollton, US
• Stephen Logan · Douglasville, US
• Mike Crumpler · Carrollton, US
• Alon Stewart · Smyrna, US
• Hugh Butler · Carrollton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 1, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

Electronic supervision may be provided. First, a stock number may be sent to a database server. The stock number may correspond to an electrical cable. In response to sending the database server the stock number, specification information corresponding to the product may be received from a database stored on the database server. The specification information may be, for an electrical cable, a number of wires, a weight per thousand feet, and a diameter. Next, product production may be monitored to determine faults occurring during production. Monitoring the production may include displaying a data monitoring screen to production personnel. The data monitoring screen may provide data regarding the product and product comparison against a standard maintained within the database for the product. Fault data corresponding to the determined faults occurring during the production may be saved to the database.