Line management in manufacturing execution system
US9678505B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 28, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jun 13, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P90/30
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.
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