AUTOMATIC GRAPHICAL RENDERING OF PROCESSES
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This disclosure relates to tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts and, more specifically to the automatic graphical renderings of processes. In an exemplary embodiment, the process is a complex process including hundreds or thousands of operations. In an exemplary embodiment, a device displays a first view that includes a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in a database, and at least some directional lines of the complete progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, in an exemplary embodiment, the display toggles to a second view that includes a focus diagram. In an exemplary embodiment, an edit to the focus diagram is checked in real-time and rejected if the edit orphans of an object currently undergoing the process on a live production line.
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21. A manufacturing process management system comprising:
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a manufacturing production facility; and a client device, coupled to a server, the server coupled to a database storing data relating to the manufacturing production facility, wherein the client device comprises a display and a user input tool, and wherein the client device is configured to render on the display; a first view, the first view comprising a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in the database, wherein the complete progression diagram includes directional lines linking nodes representing originating operations to nodes representing corresponding subsequent operations, wherein the directional lines represent the outcomes of the originating operations, and wherein at least some of the directional lines unintelligibly overlap; and a second view comprising a focus diagram automatically generated based on a selection, via the user input tool, of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, wherein the focus diagram is a separate progression diagram including only those directional lines that represent outcomes of the particular operation, wherein said only those directional lines link nodes representing the particular operation to nodes representing only those corresponding subsequent operations directly based on said outcomes of the particular operation. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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