Method of customizing electronic systems based on user specifications

• US 6,564,112 B1
• Filed: 11/08/1999
• Issued: 05/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eventide, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Eventide, Inc.
• Inventors: Factor, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): RODRIGUEZ, PAUL L
• Application Number:
  US09/437,771
• Time in Patent Office: 1,282 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 700/95, 700/97, 700/103, 700/104, 700/105, 703/1, 703/13, 705/26, 716/1, 716/5, 716/16
• US Class Current: 700/97
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41865 characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32022 Ordering, remote ordering, enter article and operations needed, create jobfile
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32039 Send also testing program
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A method and system for manufacturing a particular system based on a universal system. The method includes designing the particular system on the universal system. The particular system as implemented on the universal system is then tested. The system is re-designed and re-tested until the particular system as tested on the universal system is acceptable. The final design of the particular system is sent to a manufacturer to be built using the elements of the universal system used to implement the particular system. After the manufacturer receives the design of the particular system as implemented on the universal system, it identifies the elements of the universal system used to implement the particular system. The particular system is constructed using those elements of the universal system.

Claims

1. A method for manufacturing a particular system based on a universal system having a plurality of elements, the method including the steps of:

a) designing the particular system on the universal system,

b) testing the particular system as implemented on the universal system,

c) repeating steps a) and b) until the particular system as tested on the universal system is acceptable, and

d) sending the design of the particular system to a manufacturer to be built using the elements of the universal system used to implement the particular system,

wherein the universal system is at a remote location and the step of designing the particular system includes sending the design of the particular system for implementation in the universal system over a telecommunications connection, and

wherein the step of testing the particular system includes transmitting an output of the particular system as implemented in the universal system over the telecommunications connection.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein the telecommunications connection is an internet connection.

3. A method for manufacturing a particular system based on a universal system having a plurality of elements, the method including the steps of:

a) designing the particular system on the universal system,

b) testing the particular system as implemented on the universal system,

c) repeating steps a) and b) until the particular system as tested on the universal system is acceptable,

d) sending the design of the particular system to a manufacturer to be built using the elements of the universal system used to implement the particular system, and

e) adapting adjustable parameters of the particular system to interface with manual control interfaces on one of one or more front panels having different configurations of manual control interfaces.

4. A method as in claim 3, wherein the step of sending the design of the particular system to a manufacturer to be built includes sending the adjustable parameters of the particular system with the manual control interfaces on the one of the one or more of the front panels.

5. A method as in claim 4, wherein the step of sending the design of the particular system to the manufacturer is performed by sending the design to the manufacturer in a software format.

6. A method as in claim 4, wherein the step of sending the design of the particular system to a manufacturer to be built includes sending the design over a telecommunications connection.

7. A method for manufacturing a particular system based on a universal system having a plurality of elements, the method including the steps of:

a) receiving a design of the particular system as implemented on the universal system,

b) identifying the elements of the universal system used to implement the particular system,

c) constructing the particular system by including those identified elements of the universal system, and

d) receiving specifications interfacing adjustable parameters of the particular system with manual control interfaces on one of one or more front panels having different configurations of manual control interfaces.

8. A method as in claim 7, wherein the step of constructing the particular system includes constructing the front panel as specified.

9. A method as in claim 8, wherein the step of receiving the design of the particular system includes receiving the specifications interfacing the adjustable parameters of the particular system with manual control interfaces.