Method and system for controlling body-shop processing
First Claim
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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Abstract
A method and system to help control body-shop processing of vehicles, based on timing of interaction with a touch-screen display. In an example implementation, a body shop will be equipped with a computing system including a touch-screen display, with the computing system being configured to manage presentation on the display of graphical representations of job-cards for individual body-shop jobs, such as individual vehicles in for repair. With such an arrangement, body shop personnel could drag and drop job cards from one section to another to indicate transitions of jobs between body-shop processing steps. The computing system will then advantageously make use of data regarding the timing of those drag-and-drop operations as a basis to control body-shop processing, such as be predicting a processing duration of a job currently in process and taking action to modify processing of the job based on the predicted duration for instance.
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22 Claims
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computing system for 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 computing system comprising;a touch-screen display; a processing unit; non-transitory data storage; and program instructions stored in the non-transitory data storage and executable by the processing unit to carry out operations for controlling body-shop processing of vehicles, wherein the operations include causing to be presented on the touch-screen display, a sequence of discrete display-sections representing, respectively, the sequence of body-shop processing steps, and, for each of a plurality of jobs currently being processed, causing to be presented on the touch-screen display, in a 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, wherein the operations further include receiving 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, wherein the operations further include determining, 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, 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 wherein the operations further include using the established trend-data as a basis to control body-shop processing of a given job based on a determination that the given job has a given combination of job attributes. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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