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Method and system for controlling body-shop processing

  • US 10,289,101 B2
  • Filed: 03/10/2017
  • Issued: 05/14/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of controlling body-shop processing, wherein body-shop processing of each of a plurality of vehicles includes a sequence of body-shop processing steps, and wherein body-shop processing of each vehicle defines a respective body-shop processing job (“

  • job”

    ) having a plurality of job attributes, the method comprising;

    presenting by a computing system, on a touch-screen display, a sequence of discrete display-sections representing, respectively, the sequence of body-shop processing steps, and, for each job currently being processed, presenting by the computing system on the touch-screen display, in the display-section that represents a current body-shop processing step of the job, a job-card that represents the job and that depicts at least some of the attributes of the job;

    receiving into the computing system drag-drop data that represents instances of dragging and dropping on the touch-screen display of individual ones of the job-cards among display-sections, wherein each instance of dragging and dropping of an individual job-card from one display-section to another indicates that body-shop processing of the job represented by the individual job card has transitioned from the body-shop processing step represented by the display-section from which the job-card was dragged to the body-shop processing step represented by the display-section to which the job-card was dragged;

    determining by the computing system, based on timing of the dragging and dropping represented by the received drag-drop data, durations of processing of individual jobs in particular body-shop processing steps, and establishing by the computing system, based on correlations between the determined processing durations and the attributes of the individual jobs, trend-data indicating representative processing durations in particular body-shop processing steps for particular combinations of job attributes; and

    using by the computing system the established trend-data as a basis to control body-shop processing of a given job based on a determination by the computing system that the given job has a given combination of job attributes.

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