Method and apparatus for passively recording product quality, employment and reliability

• US 20040148455A1
• Filed: 10/15/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Original Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Inventors: Packard, David C., Normand, John W., Morse, Jonathan F.
• Application Number:
  US10/687,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20040148455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/100
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/128 the workpiece itself serves as a record carrier, e.g. by its form, by marks or codes on it
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31095 Read write intelligent chip on workpiece, pallet, tool for data exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31283 Communication memory, storage, ram, eprom on workpiece or pallet

Abstract

A method for tracking and recording metric parameters in a product item comprising the steps of positioning an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM) Chip in the item; automatically tracking and recording all parameters in the EEPROM; and reading said parameters recorded into a database.

Claims

1. A method for tracking and recording metric parameters in a product item comprising the steps of:

(a) positioning an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM) Chip in the item;

(b) automatically tracking and recording all parameters in the EEPROM; and

(c) reading said parameters recorded in step (b) into a database.