Manufacturing optimizer based on production and consumption targets
US9704116B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 21, 2013 |
| Grant date | Jul 11, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/06312
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An optimizer is used to help manage a process that has multiple consumption inputs with differing costs, multiple production outputs with differing sale prices and intermediates. The process may have storage capabilities for some consumption inputs, production outputs and intermediates. Further, there may be multiple production and consumption targets for the total amount of consumption inputs/production outputs, consumed/produced over a fixed period of time. The optimizer finds the most economical solution while staying in a region from which the contract target is reachable for any combination of uncertain fixed trajectories from pre-selected intervals.
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