Rough-cut manufacturing operations for use in planning
First Claim
1. An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, that models a manufacturing process, the data structure comprising:
- a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process;
a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure and comprising, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed.
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Abstract
An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, models a manufacturing process, and a computer-implemented method that generates and that uses the data structure. The data structure includes a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process. The data structure also includes a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure. The resource capacity requirement structure includes, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed.
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1. An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, that models a manufacturing process, the data structure comprising:
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a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process;
a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure and comprising, firstly, planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined resource used in the manufacturing operation, and secondly, planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined resource is estimated to be consumed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer-implemented method of generating an electronic data structure that models data to be used in planning the execution of a manufacturing process, the method comprising:
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generating a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined planning-level manufacturing operation comprising an aggregation of a defined group of defined execution-level manufacturing operations, the planned time duration information determined from time duration information associated with each of the grouped execution-level manufacturing operations; and
generating a resource capacity requirement structure linked to the header structure and comprising planned resource capacity requirement information for a defined planning-level resource, wherein the planned resource capacity requirement information is determined from resource capacity requirement information associated with execution-level resources included in the defined planning-level resource and that are associated with the grouped execution-level operations included in the defined planning-level operation, the capacity requirement structure further comprising planned time refinement information that defines, within the header time duration information, a further refined timeframe during which the defined planning-level resource is estimated to be consumed. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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