Industrial information technology (IT) workflow optimizer for discrete manufacturing
First Claim
1. A system providing optimization over manufacturing resources of a discrete manufacturing environment, comprising:
- a data store, the data store having optimization rules and heuristics for the discrete manufacturing environment; and
a workflow optimization engine, the workflow optimization engine cooperating with the data store to obtain manufacturing rules and/or heuristics for processing to generate workflow optimization data.
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Abstract
The invention contemplates a system and method offering optimization and management of manufacturing resources to obtain optimal manufacturing capacities and to avoid manufacturing down-time currently realized through manual operation and control of manufacturing resources. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention contemplates an exemplary optimization computing application operating in a computing environment which communicates with, cooperates with, and provides optimization data for use in managing manufacturing resources (e.g. manufacturing machines). The computing application accepts a variety of manufacturing related information as input, processes such manufacturing data and generates optimization suggestions for use to manage manufacturing processes and to optimize manufacturing capacities. The optimization data may be applied to a particular manufacturing environment to control the operation of manufacturing resources such that optimization is realized.
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22 Claims
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1. A system providing optimization over manufacturing resources of a discrete manufacturing environment, comprising:
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a data store, the data store having optimization rules and heuristics for the discrete manufacturing environment; and
a workflow optimization engine, the workflow optimization engine cooperating with the data store to obtain manufacturing rules and/or heuristics for processing to generate workflow optimization data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for generating workflow optimization processes and techniques for use on manufacturing resources of a manufacturing environment comprising the steps of:
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receiving request for the manufacture of a product or product component; and
processing the request by a workflow optimization engine, the workflow optimization engine having at least one instruction set to process data according to predefined manufacturing rules. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method to generate workflow optimization instructions for manufacturing resources comprising:
providing a workflow optimization engine, the workflow optimization engine capable of receiving and processing data to generate workflow optimization instructions. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. In an information technology system providing communication of data among a global power distribution equipment manufacturer enterprise, a module providing workflow optimization comprising:
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a communications network, the communication network capable of receiving and transmitting data representative of power distribution equipment manufacturing processes;
a data store, the data store having data representative of power distribution equipment manufacturing processes;
a manufacturing control applet, the manufacture control applet cooperating with the communications network and the data store to receive data representative of power distribution manufacturing data, comprising any of power distribution system market information, design information, facilities capacity, planning, and materials information, for processing, such processing comprising any of generating manufacturing control instructions to control at least one cooperating manufacturing resource, wherein the applet communicates with the manufacturing resource to obtain manufacturing resource operational and status information, and wherein the manufacturing control applet uses the operational information to generate workflow optimization instructions for communication to and execution by cooperating manufacturing resources. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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