Custom-made manufacturing system and custom-made manufacturing method
First Claim
1. A custom manufacturing system comprising:
- means for selectively indicating a particular product having custom product specifications required by a customer;
a product ordering department having means for receiving said required product specifications input by said customer;
a design department for designing custom product design information for said specified product according to said input required custom product specifications, said design department having means for storing said custom product design information;
a production department for manufacturing said product according to said custom product design information, said production department having means for outputting and storing production status information and means for storing end product manufacturing information, wherein said production department receives said custom product design information from said design department via a transmitting means;
means for estimating and showing at least one of completion time data and cost data according to said custom product design information and said production status information; and
means for creating and displaying a product design having said input custom required specifications, according to said product design information, said production status information and said end product information.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a manufacturing system which accepts a custom order of product from a customer and custom manufactures a product without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency. The manufacturing system includes the featuring steps of inputting the required specification of a product, creating the product design based on the design information of the product transmitted from a designing department, status data from the production department, and the input required specification, showing the created product design to the customer, selectively indicating a product to be purchased, transmitting the specification of the selected product to the production department, and producing a product based on the selected product specification.
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16 Claims
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1. A custom manufacturing system comprising:
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means for selectively indicating a particular product having custom product specifications required by a customer; a product ordering department having means for receiving said required product specifications input by said customer; a design department for designing custom product design information for said specified product according to said input required custom product specifications, said design department having means for storing said custom product design information; a production department for manufacturing said product according to said custom product design information, said production department having means for outputting and storing production status information and means for storing end product manufacturing information, wherein said production department receives said custom product design information from said design department via a transmitting means; means for estimating and showing at least one of completion time data and cost data according to said custom product design information and said production status information; and means for creating and displaying a product design having said input custom required specifications, according to said product design information, said production status information and said end product information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A custom manufacturing system comprising:
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means for storing an input of required specifications of a product, means for collecting a plurality of required specifications stored in said storing means and transmitting said plurality of required specifications to a designing department, means for designing a product choosing from required specifications most frequently input based on said plurality of required specifications, means for storing design information for said product, means for producing said product according to said required specifications, means for transmitting said design information of said product having selected required specifications, chosen from said plurality of required specifications, to said means for storing the design information of said product, and means for transmitting said design information for said product from said means for designing said product to said means for producing said product.
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16. A custom manufacturing method comprising the steps of:
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inputting a plurality of required specifications of a product, collecting the plurality of required specifications; transmitting the plurality of required specifications to a design department, determining the product design using required specifications most frequently input based on the data about said collected plurality of required specifications, designing the product based on the determined product design information chose from the frequently required specifications, and transmitting the product design to a production department, and producing the product according to the product design information.
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