GLOBAL SMART MANUFACTURING, SALE AND SERVICE SYSTEM

• US 20190332995A1
• Filed: 12/21/2018
• Published: 10/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2018
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Kingtronics Smart Industrial Interconnection Networking (Fujian) Co. ,Ltd
• Original Assignee: Kingtronics Group (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tseng, Chee Henry
• Application Number:
  US16/228,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20190332995A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A global smart manufacturing, sale and service system integrates globalized procurement, payment, smart manufacturing, sales and logistics distribution to realize information interconnection among global supply chains. It allows enterprises to share experiences on smart manufacturing without compromising independence, secrecy and security of their operational information, so as to achieve deep fusion between end customers and manufacturers. It supports real-time adjustment of operational decision-making, and accurately pushes product information to customers, so as to enhance customers'"'"' satisfaction and shopping experiences.

Claims

1. A global smart manufacturing, sale and service system, being characterized in:

comprising a plurality of continuously reproducible and expandable service units, each said service unit constructing and providing a global cellular service network with a cellular architecture that implements global procurement, global manufacturing, and global sale service;

the service units being composed of global security management systems, global cloud-based smart service platforms, global end customers, global production platforms, global part suppliers, global sale platforms, global logistic execution ends, global payment systems, and global cellular service systems;

the service units constructing the global cloud-based smart service platforms based on the global security management systems while ensuring secrecy, security and availability of data, the global cloud-based smart service platforms being docked with the global sale platforms, the global production platforms, the global end customers, the global part suppliers, the global logistic execution ends, and the global payment systems based on cloud data pools with a service-oriented distributed architecture, so as to integrate a complete “

from-the-demand-side-to-the-supply-side”

supply chain system from the global end customers to respective said independent global production platforms, global part suppliers, global sale platforms, and global logistic execution ends and to integrate the global payment systems enabling global payment;

the global cloud-based smart service platforms providing global sale service, global procurement service, global production platform service, global logistic service, global payment service, smart information system service, and software service that are based on SaaS cloud service to the global production platforms through the global sale platforms, the global part suppliers, the global logistic execution ends, and the global payment systems;

the global cloud-based smart service platforms providing formation, operation &

maintenance and on-/off-line comprehensive service of the global cloud-based smart service platforms through the global cellular service systems;

the global cloud-based smart service platforms continuously performing self-evolution, continuously improving their global supply chain efficiency, continuously improving their smart manufacturing, and continuously improving their smart decision-making in virtue of big-data analysis and sharing of smart manufacturing experiences;

data exchange between the global cloud-based smart service platforms, and between each said global cloud-based smart service platform and the systems or platforms it is docked with being performed using standardized, modularized, and secure interface and protocols by means of multiple-network link connection;

the global end customers acting as customer ends, the global part suppliers acting as supply ends, and manufacturers on the global production platforms registering to the global cloud-based smart service platforms and thereby receiving service; and

each said global production platform being composed of regional production platforms each having different product/sector attributes, providing global manufacturing service to the global manufacturers, and implementing global manufacturing, wherein each said regional production platform allows plural manufacturers having the same sector attribute to operate therein.

2. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 1, being characterized in:

each said cloud data pool synchronizing public data in a real-time manner, the public data including supply-demand data published by enterprises and service data provided by enterprises that are both collected by the global cloud-based smart service platforms, and experience data about smart manufacturing processes of the global production platforms, plus logistics data of the global logistic execution ends, wherein the public data are centrally processed using big-data analysis technologies through the smart information system service and the software service;

the big-data analysis technologies applying artificial neural networks and genetic algorithm technologies to smart decision-making throughout supply chains of the global cloud-based smart service platforms, for continuous learning, analysis and improvement in decision-making conditions, decision-making effects and thinking methods during the enterprises'"'"' operations, thereby continuously perfecting the artificial neural network and the genetic algorithm, making the enterprises able to perform experiential self-evolution by continuously improving their smart manufacturing and smart decision-making through sharing of smart manufacturing experiences.

3. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 1, being characterized in:

the global security management system, providing the global cellular service networks and all the service units with global information security service, including encrypted storage service defined by database data, identity authentication service based on digital certificates together with user-defined digital signatures;

global trade in each said service unit and between the service units being performed by means of data encrypted transmission and blockchain technologies for information secrecy, security, integrity, and non-malleability;

network isolation for all users'"'"' data being realized using overlay technologies, and network equipment and controllers that only make private data accessible to relevant users being used to ensure secrecy and security of sensitive data of the users such as individual enterprises;

the global end customer registering to the global cloud-based smart service platforms and passing identity authentication thereby receiving service, the service including service for selecting and ordering products, service for checking production progress and logistic information of the ordered products, service for distribution at the global logistic execution ends, and service for making payment through the global payment systems connected to the platforms;

the global part suppliers, providing materials procured by the global manufacturers, registering to the global cloud-based smart service platforms and passing identity authentication thereby receiving service, the service including service for automatically receiving procurement orders for materials issued by the global production platforms or confirmed by the manufacturers, service for distribution at the global logistic execution ends, and service for receiving payment for the products through the global payment systems connected to the platforms;

the global sale platform providing the global sale service that includes displaying product information to the global manufacturers and allowing the global end customers to select, customize and order products;

accurately pushing product information of the global manufacturers to the customers through the global sale platforms according to big-data analysis of the smart information system service of the global cloud-based smart service platforms; and

the global payment system (4), composed of various payment platforms worldwide, allowing the customers to make payment for the products they order and allowing the enterprises to make payment for the materials they procure, and participating in the enterprises'"'"' identity authentication, so as to enable credit payment according to statistics and analysis of the customers'"'"' credit data.

4. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 1, being characterized in:

the global production platforms, composed of n said regional production platforms having different product/sector attributes, each said regional production platform allowing plural manufacturers having the same sector attribute to operate therein to provide the global manufacturers with n types of global production platform service thereby achieving global manufacturing;

the regional production platforms including same-region same-attribute production platforms and different-region same-attribute production platforms, providing the manufacturers in the regional production platforms with smart industry service based on product order service, material procurement service, logistic service, payment service, smart information system service, and software service, the service all being provided in a modularized and standardized form upon the manufacturers'"'"' registration and application;

the same-region same-attribute production platform, being a production platform in which smart factories of manufacturers of the same sector attribute in a SME park, providing the manufacturers in the park with the smart industry service including;

production management service, real-time data-acquiring service, big-data analysis service, quality management service, material management service, smart distribution service, central lab service, human resource training &

support service, automated &

informatized service, R&

D-center-based product R&

D service, and R&

D design &

production service, and providing the manufacturers in the park with factory smart infrastructure/equipment, smart manufacturing equipment, and hardware for central warehouses; and

the different-region same-attribute production platform, being a group of enterprises or a production platform otherwise established outside the park, providing the group of enterprises or the production platform with the smart industry service, including;

the production management service, the real-time data-acquiring service, the big-data analysis service, the quality management service, the material management service, the smart distribution service, human resources management service, and informatized service.

5. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 4, being characterized in:

the smart information system service, including a RTMS-server for providing service through a smart real-time monitoring system, the service including;

real-time data-acquiring service and big-data analysis service;

the real-time data-acquiring service, interconnecting the smart manufacturing equipment and the factory smart infrastructure/equipment in all the smart factories through an execution end of the smart real-time monitoring system RTMS and automatically acquiring data so as to automatically control the factory smart infrastructure/equipment and the smart manufacturing equipment in a real-time manner, thereby achieving flexible production automation, and providing smart real-time monitoring service throughout manufacturing processes, for acquiring and maintaining data about relevant suppliers, materials, production management, quality management, real-time costs, logistics progress, finance, and human resources during the manufacturing processes, including smart manufacturing experience data, the real-time data-acquiring service further acquiring and monitoring market demand data, product sales data, material supply data, and logistic information data; and

the big-data analysis service performing big-data smart analysis based on the big data and smart manufacturing experience data acquired by the real-time data-acquiring service, so as to provide the enterprises with service for monitoring key nodes throughout factory operation in a real-time manner, service for centrally displaying statistical analysis information, service for 3D modeling and VR displaying production processes, and smart decision-making service, through which information of entire supply chains in the factories is displayed in a real-time manner, thereby ensuring that every part of the supply chains is timely controlled, and information from supply ends to demand ends is compiled and displayed in a real-time manner, thereby providing robust information service for the enterprises'"'"' timely feedback and adjustment and swift decision-making.

6. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 5, being characterized in:

the service for 3D modeling and VR displaying production processes;

building 3D models of the factories'"'"' the smart infrastructure/equipment, the factories'"'"' smart manufacturing equipment, the central warehouses, and smart logistic equipment through VR technologies, and incorporating the data acquired by the real-time data-acquiring service and data exchanged in a real-time manner by an information management system, so as to display real-time images throughout product production at the factories'"'"' in-house central monitoring platforms and/or remote clients by means of virtual reality, thereby constructing virtual factories for users to intuitively learn production progress of the products and operation of the equipment; and

the smart decision-making service, building virtual factories based on the service for 3D modeling and VR displaying production processes and the smart manufacturing experience data to simulate order execution, to simulate routing, and to simulate manufacturing processes.

7. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 5, being characterized in:

the information of the entire supply chains in the factories, including suppliers'"'"' states, supply of raw materials, logistic information, products'"'"' outputs and yields, production efficiency, quality states, real-time correction and prevention measures, real-time statistics, and human resource states; and

the real-time statistics providing information from the supply ends to the demand ends, including supplier information, man-hour efficiency information, real-time cost information, statistical analysis information on costs, statistical analysis information on quality states, statistical analysis information on correction and prevention measures, statistical analysis information on human resources, statistical analysis information on factory infrastructure, statistical analysis of logistic information, statistical analysis of manufacturing experience data, analytic statistics about demands for different products, and statistical analysis information on customers'"'"' satisfaction.

8. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 1, being characterized in:

implementing the global procurement, global manufacturing, and global sale service through a process including the following steps;

Step 1;

the global end customers accessing the global cloud-based smart service platforms to check information on products of different categories displayed on the global sale platforms, selecting the products they need to generate product orders or issuing personalized demands, and making payment for the products they ordered through the global payment systems;

Step 2;

the global sale platforms automatically connecting to the production platforms of the same sector attribute according to the product/sector attributes of the ordered products, for the manufacturers belonging to the production platforms to confirm the product orders and generate corresponding material procurement orders, and then the manufacturers making payment for the material procurement orders through the global payment systems;

Step 3;

the global cloud-based smart service platforms collecting all the product orders made by the global end customer on the global sale platform, automatically generating the material procurement orders according to big data smart analysis of the collected product data information of the global production platforms and information on the global part suppliers, executing global procurement, distributing the material procurement orders to relevant part suppliers, and assigning the product orders and the automatically generated material procurement orders to the manufacturers on the global production platforms that provide corresponding products, respectively, wherein if the products specified in the material procurement orders are in stock, the part suppliers supply the products to the relevant manufacturers requiring the materials through the global logistic execution ends, and the global payment systems automatically making payment to the relevant part suppliers after the manufacturers confirm receipt of the materials; and

if the products are out of stock or in short, the global part suppliers turn into the global end customers, and the process returning to Step 1; and

Step 4;

if the manufacturers are in the same-region same-attribute production platforms of the global production platforms, the manufacturers performing the manufacturing processes for the ordered product using the smart infrastructure/equipment and the smart manufacturing equipment of the factories on the platforms plus the production management service, the real-time data-acquiring service, the big-data analysis service, the quality management service, the central lab service, the automated &

informatized service, the human resource training &

support service, the R&

D-center-based product R&

D service, the material management service, and the smart distribution service of the smart industry service along with the smart information system service and the software service of the global cloud-based smart service platforms, so as to integrate the smart information systems into automated execution of industrial manufacturing, then the manufactured products being collected at central warehousing &

logistic equipment of the regional production platforms and delivered to the customers through the smart distribution service, and the global payment system automatically making payment for the ordered products to the relevant manufacturers after the customers confirm receipt of the products; and

if the manufacturers are in the different-region same-attribute production platforms of the global production platforms, the manufacturers performing the manufacturing processes for the ordered product using the smart infrastructure/equipment and the smart manufacturing equipment of their own factories plus the production management service, the real-time data-acquiring service, the big-data analysis service, the quality management service, the material management service, the smart distribution service, the human resources management service, and the informatized service of the platform smart industry service along with the smart information system service and the software service of the global cloud-based smart service platforms, then the manufactured products being delivered to the customers through the smart distribution service, and the global payment system automatically making payment for the ordered products to the relevant manufacturers after the customers confirm receipt of the products.

9. The global smart manufacturing, sale and service system of claim 1, being characterized in:

implementing the global manufacturing being achieved through a process including the following steps;

Step 1;

in different regions worldwide, forming n regional production platforms that are digitized, informatized, and smartlized depending on sector attributes, each said regional production platform allowing plural manufacturers having the same sector attribute to operate therein, so as to form smart production platforms having large-enterprise scale; and

Step 2;

each said regional production platform being docked with the global cloud-based smart service platforms following standard platform interface and protocols defined by itself, the regional production platform containing three layers;

an infrastructure equipment layer, a real-time data-acquiring &

execution layer, and an information management layer, the regional production platform providing the manufacturers in the regional production platform with smart industry service including;

real-time data-acquiring service, big-data analysis service, production management service, quality management service, central lab service, automated &

informatized service, human resource training &

support service, R&

D-center-based product R&

D service, material management service, and smart distribution service in virtue of combination of the infrastructure equipment layer, the real-time data-acquiring &

execution layer, and the information management layer;

the infrastructure equipment layer, for designing and forming digitized and smartlized factory infrastructure/equipment, central warehousing &

logistic equipment, and smart manufacturing equipment for the manufacturers in the regional production platform to use;

the real-time data-acquiring &

execution layer performing smart infrastructure real-time acquiring &

monitoring on the factory smart infrastructure/equipment of the infrastructure equipment layer and performing smart equipment information real-time acquiring &

monitoring on the central warehousing &

logistic equipment and the smart manufacturing equipment through execution ends of a smart real-time monitoring system RTMS, so as to achieve information interconnection among all the infrastructure and equipment in the platforms and realize smart monitoring, acquiring information on operation of the infrastructure and equipment in a real-time manner, and smartly controlling the equipment according to production plans, so as to facilitate flexible manufacturing, efficiency improvement, energy conservation, and consumption reduction, and performing real-time acquiring &

monitoring of other information on the infrastructure equipment layer, wherein the real-time acquiring &

monitoring provides smart real-time monitoring service throughout manufacturing processes, for acquiring and maintaining data about relevant suppliers, materials, production management, quality management, real-time costs, logistics progress, finance, and human resources during the manufacturing processes, smart manufacturing experience data, other manufacturing experience data, market demand data, product sales data, material supply data, and logistic information data;

the information management layer, including an integrated smart information system module that comprises service ends of smart real-time monitoring systems RTMS, supplier management systems SCM, customer relationship management systems CRM, integrated product development systems IPD, enterprise resource planning ERP, manufacturing execution systems MES, smart advanced planning &

scheduling systems APS, smart warehouse management systems WMS, and product life cycle management systems PLM, and performing flexible manufacturing based on big-data analysis and sharing of smart manufacturing experience data according to orders and smart production schedules, the smart information system being able to continuously learn and improve, so as to improve the manufacturers in the regional production platforms in terms of smart manufacturing and smart decision-making;

the service ends of the smart real-time monitoring systems RTMS acquiring infrastructure, smart equipment, manufacturing processes information collected by execution ends of the smart real-time monitoring systems RTMS by means of releasing service, and displaying real-time images throughout product production at the factories'"'"' in-house central monitoring platforms and/or remote clients by means of virtual reality, for users to intuitively learn production progress of the products and operation of the equipment; and

the integrated product development systems IPD providing the manufacturers in the regional production platforms with R&

D service for products having optimized and personalized designs.