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Preparation of aggregate jobs for production

  • US 7,542,155 B2
  • Filed: 09/25/2006
  • Issued: 06/02/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automated method for creating gangs of individual jobs for production at a production facility, the method comprising:

  • retaining in electronic form a plurality of individual jobs, each individual job having one or more associated production parameters;

    based on at least the available production capacity at the production facility and the production parameters of the individual jobs, defining a plurality of gang shells representing gangs planned to be subsequently created and produced;

    based on at least the defined gang shells, developing a schedule for the production of at least some of the gangs represented by the gang shells during a time period; and

    creating each gang to be produced such that the gang will be available to the production facility in advance of the gang'"'"'s scheduled production time.

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