| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 700111000 | Worker or work station efficiency | 11 |
| 20090024240 | Workstation display for an assembly location having a timing indicator portion - An assembly line includes a plurality of assembly locations. One of a plurality of sequential assembly tasks is performed at each assembly location. A workstation, located at each assembly location, is configured to display information regarding one of a number of variations of the one assembly task to be performed. A timing device is provided for determining a start time of the one assembly task. A display of the workstation includes a timing indicator portion configured to change color in response to a predetermined lapse of time relative to the start time. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090105865 | Metric based performance monitoring method and system - A metric based performance monitoring A process control system is disclosed in which diagnostics are performed at multiple levels of the plant, results of the diagnostics converted into Key Performance Indicators and compared to predetermined benchmarks such that an integrated and overall determination of the plants' performance may be displayed. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090149983 | Quality Control System And Method Thereof - A quality control system and method for monitoring an assembly operation is provided. The method can include: (1) providing an assembly line having a plurality of machines being assembled thereon; (2) providing a tool for performing an assembly operation; (3) performing a plurality of the assembly operations with the tool; (4) measuring a measurable parameter indicative of the performance of the tool for at least a subset of the plurality of assembly operations; (5) storing the measured values in an electronic format with a data collection device; (6) analyzing the measured values; and (7) providing a signal based on the analysis with the signal indicative of at least satisfactory or unsatisfactory performance of the tool. In some instances, the data collection device can provide for storing additional information and/or data with any particular stored measured value. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100004776 | OPERATION INSTRUCTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR INSTRUCTING OPERATION, AND OPERATION INSTRUCTING APPARATUS - An operation instructing system includes an individual process information obtaining section obtaining, each time a production element is put into the system, the process information about one of the production lines to produce the put production element; a state information obtaining section obtaining, on the basis of the process information, state information about remaining production processes the production elements currently in the production system; a determining section determining, each time operation completion report is obtained, the next manual step by the operator completed a manual step as a next operation step on the basis of the state information; and a notifying section notifying the operator of the next operation step. Accordingly, even when preferential degrees of operations randomly vary, operation shares of respective operators are clearly determined and the next operation steps are accurately notified to respective operator, so that the production efficiency can be improved. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100125358 | Method and System for Generating Shift Reports Without Data Redundancies - The embodiments of the present invention provide a shift report module that improves the accuracy of the information within the shift report by flagging or avoiding redundant entries between shift reports and ensuring that entries are not lost between shift reports based on the time that they were entered and the time that the shift reports were generated. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100249978 | Method for Evaluating Key Production Indicators (KPI) in a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) - A method evaluates key production indicators in a manufacturing execution system (MES). An object oriented tool for modeling a production process is executed in the manufacturing execution system. The modeling includes a definition of plant floor equipment involved in the production process and corresponding MES applications managing the plant floor equipment. A plant performance analyzer tool for calculating the key production indicators on the plant floor equipment is executed. The key production indicators calculated by the plant performance analyzer tool in the object oriented tool are read. The step of modeling the production process includes the definition of a class associated to the key production indicators and including the calculus to be executed by the plant performance analyzer on the plant floor equipment. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110282482 | HYBRID SCANNER FABRICATOR - A system and method to fabricate three dimensional objects. A set of fabrication tools include at least a coarse deposition head and a fine additive head, a fine subtractive head or both employed concurrently within a single housing. A scanner may also be used within the housing to perform interleaved scanning of the partial fabrication during the fabrication. The process may be adjusted based on the scan results. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20130253685 | CONTROL ASSET COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY - A system and method is provided for determining the variability induced on a process output. The method includes the analysis of input variable values to determine the total variability. A series of processes may be analyzed and ranked so that a process owner may gain an understanding of how a target process performs relative to the processes of other process owners. The method includes the generation of graphical process comparisons and advice regarding asset performance. The method also includes the estimation of cost impacts due to changes in induced variability. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130338811 | MATRIX PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A matrix production system for a production line includes a plurality of processing units, a controller, and a plurality of detectors. Each processing unit covers a plurality of stations having the same or similar functions. Each station has a detector. The controller sets an initial flowchart during process of industrial production and a known first reference capacity for each station. A current number of workpieces at each station is detected. The controller compares the current number with the first reference capacity to determine an overburdened station or otherwise and then analyzes a running state of overburdened station determined as being overburdened to establish a malfunctioning station, and if malfunctioning, switches the flow of workpieces from the malfunctioning station to a station with the greatest amount of available or free capacity. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140188261 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING UNSAFE OPERATIONS - A system for preventing an unsafe operation of at least one machine communicatively coupled to a computing device. The system includes the computing device which includes a processor coupled to a memory. The memory contains processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computing device to perform the steps of storing, in the memory, a first state of a first machine of the at least one machine, generating a first pending output to be issued to the first machine, determining whether an unsafe condition would result if the first pending output is issued to the first machine in the first state, and issuing the first pending output upon determining that issuing the first pending output would not result in an unsafe condition and blocking the first pending output from being issued upon determining that issuing the first pending output would result in an unsafe condition. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140364987 | OPERATING PLAN FORMULATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An operation item in which a period of manipulation by an operator makes up a dominant part and some of the procedures of another operation item in which a period of system actions makes up a dominant part are allocated in parallel to enhance the efficiency of operation. Information that discriminates whether each manipulating procedure of an operation item is dominated by a period of manipulation by an operator or by a working period of a system is stored into an operating procedure DB on a storage. Processing of operation allocation by an operation management server that supports allocation of operation items to operators utilizes the distinguishing information to multiply allocate some procedures of another operation item defined in an operation item management DB, and the already allocated procedures are presented to the operator at the operator's terminal. | 12-11-2014 |
