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Data Processing: Generic Control Systems Or Specific Applications > Specific Application, Apparatus Or Process > Product Assembly Or Manufacturing > Design Or Planning Design Or PlanningDesign Or Planning patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/14/06 - 20060282186 - Optimization of a production process A method or system for optimizing a process for producing a cast or molded product made by one or more production steps in respect of one or more predetermined parameters towards one or more optimal values, the process comprising the steps of: defining one or more technical requirements for the ... 11/30/06 - 20060271219 - Computer system for efficient design and manufacture of multiple-component devices Embodiments of the disclosed computer systems provide rapid design of multiple component products, especially medical products, as well as determination of manufacturing costs, pricing, physical attributes, component bonding techniques, sterilization techniques, and government regulatory approval. Certain embodiments also generate work orders, product labels, and audits for multiple component devices. ... 11/30/06 - 20060271218 - Computer system for efficient design and manufacture of multiple-component devices Embodiments of the disclosed computer systems provide rapid design of multiple component products, especially medical products, as well as determination of manufacturing costs, pricing, physical attributes, component bonding techniques, sterilization techniques, and government regulatory approval. Certain embodiments also generate work orders, product labels, and audits for multiple component devices. ... 11/30/06 - 20060271217 - Manufacturing study support device A device to support studies of the positions in which parts necessary for assembly are placed and the positions in which assembly tasks are performed. A manufacturing study support device has a computation portion, a display portion which displays animations, and a storage portion which stores part animation data comprising ... 11/16/06 - 20060259172 - Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing generator generates a layout drawing based on the request for proposal. The design ... 11/09/06 - 20060253214 - System A design system is accessible to a designer and a plurality of manufacturers. The design system comprises a first user interface configured to receive design information for a component from the designer. The design system further comprises a second user interface configured to receive manufacturing information from the plurality of ... 11/09/06 - 20060253213 - Transforming a product description into a process network and specifying product creation Product descriptions (e.g., brochures) and processing instructions required to create a product (impose, print, fold, staple) can be abstracted into common vocabularies that link one to the other. A link from a product description to the processing instructions is made. A set of pre-defined templates containing specific processing instructions can ... 11/02/06 - 20060247815 - Method for interpreting design data and associating manufacturing information with the data and software and systems for implementing the method A method of generating a manufacturing process for producing an assembly and a computer system or systems implementing the method. The method generally includes the steps of: designing at least one assembly to be produced having at least two components to be engaged to one another such that the area ... 10/19/06 - 20060235555 - File configuration strategy, such as for storing and manipulating parts and product definitions used in product manufacturing Managing product design and specification information in accordance with the invention may include receiving input information providing design data for a product comprising a collection of parts. The input information may be published into a computer aided design environment. In addition, processing may take place to allow for classifying aspects ... 10/12/06 - 20060229753 - Probabilistic modeling system for product design A method for designing a product includes obtaining data records relating to one or more input variables and one or more output parameters associated with the product. One or more input parameters may be selected from the one or more input variables, and a computational model indicative of interrelationships between ... 10/05/06 - 20060224264 - Tape out template system and method A tape out template system is provided. The tape out template system comprises a template database, a query database, and a processor. The template database stores a plurality of templates for mask tooling for different manufacturing technologies. Each of the templates comprises a set of mask tooling settings for different ... 09/14/06 - 20060206225 - Automatic data configuration strategy, such as for storing and manipulating product manufacturing data Managing product design and specification information in accordance with the invention may include receiving input information providing design data for a product comprising a collection of parts. The input information may be published into a computer aided design environment. In addition, processing may take place to allow for classifying aspects ... 09/14/06 - 20060206224 - Selecting oled devices using figure of merit A method of selecting an OLED device to be manufactured based on customer requirements, including the customer providing first and second sets of requirements, providing a plurality of OLED device constructions based on the first and second sets of requirements, device architecture options, and a database including device component performance ... 08/31/06 - 20060195208 - System and method for information handling system manufacture with verified hardware configuration An information handling system hardware signature based on a verified hardware configuration for the information handling system serves as a reference to confirm the hardware configuration of the information handling system through a manufacture process. For instance, after hardware component testing, the hardware components of the information handling system are ... 08/31/06 - 20060195207 - Method for projecting and/or configuring a project The invention relates to a method, an engineering system and a programming device which simplify the projection and/or configuration of a project which represents an automation device for controlling a technical facility. For this purpose, the project engineer simply deposits in a project references that indicate which project components have ... 08/24/06 - 20060190113 - Novel network production planning method Methods of production planning, including a novel method of optimized production planning for a plurality of production plants producing a product for delivery to a plurality of customers using a common distribution network, wherein the product consumption by customers can vary, and the variable cost of producing the product can ... 08/24/06 - 20060190112 - Component-based automation A computer-implemented method for generating a description of a component of an automation system comprises describing the component as a plurality of inputs and outputs, generating a vendor-independent component description file based on a description of the component as the plurality of inputs and outputs, updating the vendor-independent component description ... 08/24/06 - 20060190111 - System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously A system of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously by the system is disclosed, comprising a designer operating interface, a component database, a product module database, a modular imitation and arrangement module and a design ... 07/27/06 - 20060167577 - System and method of manufacturing a customized product A method of manufacturing customised products comprises automating substantially a process relating to capturing customer requirements, validating customer requirements, generating a component list to manufacture a customised product according to the customer requirements, implementing hardware and/or software requirements relating to the captured customer requirements and manufacturing customised products. In particular, ... 07/13/06 - 20060155403 - Systems & methods for realtime determination of asphalt content Systems and methods are disclosed for automating mix design by estimating volumetric properties for one or more mix designs; running one or more tests on the mix design using a gyratory compactor; digitally collecting data for each gyration from the gyratory compactor; selecting an optimum mix based on the gyration ... 07/13/06 - 20060155402 - 3d virtual manufacturing process A method of is disclosed of checking the feasibility or other properties of a process involving movement and/or assembly of items or components. The method comprises setting up, within a computer, in terms of corresponding sets of data, a virtual three-dimensional space and, in such space, virtual versions of the ... 06/29/06 - 20060142883 - Design supporting system for supporting component design A design supporting system includes a unit that acquires, from a component design supporting program which is executed in a client terminal, component design information including volume information indicative of a volume of a designed component, a unit that generates list information that is indicative of a list of names ... 06/22/06 - 20060136082 - Method of designing shape of product Typical numeric data for specifying a shape of a first product having a typical size are stored in a storage portion. By an input portion (10), a size of a second product other than the typical size is input. A calculating portion (4) determines recommended numeric data for specifying a ... 06/15/06 - 20060129258 - Article design support system and method and medium storing program for article design support A furniture design support system comprises a computer system. The computer system comprises an HD unit, which stores a furniture design support program and data representing the basic forms of units and parts. An operator defines a size, a finishing color, a material (the kind of wood), etc. with respect ... 06/08/06 - 20060122718 - Data processing device, control method of data processing device, control program and manufacturing method of data processing device A data processing device provided with a user interface comprises a setting data storage unit for storing design setting data in order to realize a plurality of operational environment designs corresponding to each different appearance design of the data processing device, an identification data acquisition unit for obtaining identification data ... 06/01/06 - 20060116783 - Method and system for torque/force control of hydraulic actuators A combined scheme of identification and torque control is provided for rotary hydraulic actuators. The composite controller consists of a dynamic feedback linearizing inner loop cascaded with a robust linear feedback outer loop. The proposed controller allows the actuator to generate desired torque irrespective of the actuator motion. In fact, ... 05/18/06 - 20060106475 - Local and distributed systems for coupling automation design A system for designing a set of coupling components for coupling driving and driven shafts comprises an input module that provides a user interface for entering user input including one or more design parameters and/or user selections. A coupling selection and design module attempts to design at least one set ... 05/18/06 - 20060106474 - Computer aided design document generation and delivery system over distributed communication systems A CAD drawing generation and delivery system comprises a CAD module that produces CAD documents. A CAD automation module receives design specifications including a selection of system components, an arrangement of the components, and a dimension relating to at least one of the components, and selectively operates the CAD module ... 05/11/06 - 20060100728 - Method and system for simulating and modeling a batch manufacturing facility A system and method for the simulation and modeling of biopharmaceutical batch process manufacturing facilities using process time lines is described herein. The system employs an eleven-field delimited string code which specifies the unit identifier code and the iteration value for each of the ten levels of nested scheduling cycles ... 05/11/06 - 20060100727 - Method for production design and operations scheduling for plate design in the steel industry An automated method optimally designs plates to satisfy an order book at a steel plant so as to maximize the yield of the plates designed while using capacity fully to reduce the production of surplus slabs or plates, and satisfy order deadlines. Our method consists of four main components: (1) ... 04/27/06 - 20060089738 - Pattern recognition for sheet metal part models Analysis is performed on sheet metal products to determine characteristics (or feature vectors) of the sheet metal products. Multiple feature vectors can be obtained for each sheet metal product. Exemplary analyses include a first order moment and a second order moment. The characteristics can be compared with characteristics of other ... 04/27/06 - 20060089737 - Methods and systems for integrating design software modules A computer-implemented method for integrating a plurality of software modules using a computer having a user interface is provided, the computer including a processor and a memory. The method includes receiving data at the computer relating to a CAD part or assembly of parts, the data entered using the user ... 04/20/06 - 20060085088 - Process animation automatic generation method and system The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for enabling the automatic generation of disassembly animations and fast and inexpensive preparation of animations for an industrial product consisting of a plurality of parts, based on three-dimensional CAD or XVL data of the product. In ... 04/13/06 - 20060079980 - Design support program and design support method A computer readable design support program for inspecting a processing operation of software that controls a sheet conveyance mechanism by displaying the behavior of feeding a virtual sheet from a virtual sheet stock portion on a display portion, includes a sheets number setting procedure of setting the sheets number of ... 03/23/06 - 20060064189 - Methods for gutter component displays The present invention is in the field of gutters and methods of displaying gutter information, and, specifically, the present invention is in the field of methods of displaying gutter specifications and images to a computer user. ... 03/09/06 - 20060052891 - Design-for-product creating and processing system The present invention provides a design-for-product creating system and a design-for-product processing system. In the design-for-product creating system, a product vendor provides a user with a product design program, which enables the user to view virtual products that are graphics expressing designs created by the product vendor, and virtual part ... 03/09/06 - 20060052890 - System and method for controlling a design process A system for controlling a design process having a first design sub-process (SP1) and a second design sub-process (SP2), outcomes of one of the first and second design sub-processes (SP1, SP2) being linked to outcomes of the other of the design sub-processes by a relationship between one or more first ... 02/02/06 - 20060025877 - Method of production control and method of manufacturing industrial products where the processes are represented by Pn (n=1, 2, . . . , k−1, k, . . . ) in the order of their closeness to warehousing; Nk represents a total quantity scheduled to be warehoused from a day as a starting point until after lead time Tk from the ... 01/19/06 - 20060015202 - Method for providing a radiation filter for a radiation treatment machine A method for providing a radiation filter for a radiation treatment machine includes receiving via e-mail design data for the radiation filter, and comparing the received design data to a radiation filter blank database for selecting a radiation filter blank compatible with the radiation treatment machine from a plurality of ... 01/12/06 - 20060009870 - Method for designing radial distributors in mass transfer vessel Disclosed is a mass transfer vessel or a mass transfer tower, which is installed in water purification equipment, condensate water demineralization equipment, sewage treatment equipment, waste water treatment equipment, or chemical reactors to perform filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, regeneration of an ion exchange resin, chemical reaction, and spray of a ... 12/29/05 - 20050288808 - Computer system for efficient design and manufacture of multiple-component devices Embodiments of the disclosed computer systems provide rapid design of multiple component products, especially medical products, as well as determination of manufacturing costs, pricing, physical attributes, component bonding techniques, sterilization techniques, and government regulatory approval. Certain embodiments also generate work orders, product labels, and audits for multiple component devices. ... 12/29/05 - 20050288807 - Semi-automated computer-implemented method and system for designing manifold assemblies A semi-automated computer-implemented method for designing manifold assemblies. The method can include receiving a number of design parameters for the design of a manifold assembly and applying the number of design parameters to a heater and zoning logic to generate a manifold assembly design. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278047 - Method and apparatus for generating a building system model A system and method for providing data to a model of a building system includes a building control system with a communications network, a control subsystem for generating module deployment data and transmitting the module deployment data over the communications network, a memory for storing a three dimensional model of ... 12/15/05 - 20050278046 - Comprehensive front end method and system for automatically generating and processing photomask orders The present invention relates to a comprehensive front-end method and system for automatically generating and processing photomask orders. This method and system includes two separate, but related software components. The first software component of the present invention is used to generate a photomask order in a specified format. The second ... 12/01/05 - 20050267612 - Mathematical model for a metallurgical plant, and method for optimizing the operation of such a plant A mathematical model for a metallurgical engineering system and a method for optimizing the operation of a metallurgical engineering system by means of said model. A plurality of units (7-12) of a metallurgical engineering system (6) are modeled by means of a mathematical model. Said units are associated with supply ... 11/24/05 - 20050261792 - Method and apparatus for measurement of pressure at a device/body interface A system and method for measuring contact pressures between two surfaces, and especially, between the body and a device resting on the body, e.g., the skin and a breathable gas mask. A deformable, resilient probe having a flow passage therein is initially placed between the two surfaces such that the ... 11/24/05 - 20050261791 - Interfaces from external systems to time dependent process parameters in integrated process and product engineering A method and apparatus for computer modeling the production process is disclosed. An integrated product and process engineering system may be a computer modeling system that models both a generic production process and a specific individual production process. The integrated product and process engineering system may store a time dependent ... 11/10/05 - 20050251274 - Product design system and method A method of implementing an administration system for use with a computer aided design (CAD) system. The method includes generating multiple CAD objects using the CAD system, and generating multiple web objects. A set of object properties is defined for each of the CAD objects; and for each of the ... 10/20/05 - 20050234576 - Rotor assembly system and method A system is disclosed for use in assembling a plurality of rotatable elements in the assembly of a turbine engine. The system includes an initialization unit, a measurement unit, and a processing unit. The initialization unit is for entering initialization data into a database. The initialization data includes a first ... 10/20/05 - 20050234575 - Job flow petri net and controlling mechanism for parallel processing The present disclosure provides a job flow system for use in a manufacturing environment, such as a semiconductor fab. The job flow system includes a plurality of sequence-related jobs associated with the manufacturing and a computer-controlled Petri Net structure. The Petri Net structure includes a plurality of agents associated with ... 10/13/05 - 20050228522 - Innovation information management model An Innovation Information Management data tracking object model and interface which captures and stores product ideas, requirements, constraints, design alternatives and functions, along with their associated relationships, in an object model database is presented. Each object model includes information and relationships that are accessible via a publicly defined interface. In ... 10/13/05 - 20050228521 - Production planning apparatus and production planning method The invention proposes a method for devising a production plan of a product to be produced through multiple production steps having different characteristics in a supply chain across multiple companies and/or multiple factories. The method divides a production step of the product into multiple production steps in advance based on ... 09/29/05 - 20050216109 - Integrated precision machine design system and method An integrated precision machine design system includes an intelligent processing module, a parts database module coupled to the processing module, a training materials database module coupled to the processing module, and program code configured for receiving a user-specified precision machine design specification where the program code is operably coupled to ... 09/15/05 - 20050203652 - Manufacturing and testing communications system A method of manufacturing a product having a plurality of components where at least some of the components are manufactured by different companies at differing locations. The method comprises the steps of: providing an electronic specification sheet describing the product and its components; forwarding the specification sheet to one of ... 09/01/05 - 20050192693 - Systems & methods for realtime determination of asphalt content Systems and methods are disclosed for automating mix design by estimating volumetric properties for one or more mix designs; running one or more tests on the mix design using a gyratory compactor; digitally collecting data for each gyration from the gyratory compactor; selecting an optimum mix based on the gyration ... 09/01/05 - 20050192692 - Process control system to manage materials used in construction Systems and methods are disclosed for designing and tracking construction material usage by estimating volumetric properties for one or more mix designs; determining an optimum mix based on laboratory data; and field testing a sample of the optimum mix; and tracking and managing construction material usage based on the optimum ... 09/01/05 - 20050192691 - Method and apparatus for implementing silicon wafer chip carrier passive devices Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing silicon wafer chip carrier passive devices including customized silicon capacitors and resistors mounted directly on a module or carrier package. A plurality of system design inputs is received for a package arrangement. A respective physical design is generated for customized passive devices, a ... 08/11/05 - 20050177260 - Computer-implemented method for analyzing a problem statement based on an integration of six sigma, lean manufacturing, and kaizen analysis techniques A computer-implemented method for analyzing problem statements. The method includes focusing the problem statement into an operation definition and then assigning a level indicator to the operation definition. The method further includes analyzing the problem statement based on the operational definition and the level indicator in a cost and time ... 07/28/05 - 20050165504 - Methods and apparatus for facilitating manufacturing A method for facilitating manufacturing includes generating a computer model of an object using a design program, automatically extracting at least a portion of the computer model from the design program and automatically inputting the extracted portion into a planning program, and fabricating the object using the planning program. ... 06/23/05 - 20050137731 - Versioning of elements in a configuration model Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a multi-purpose configuration model. A computer program product for defining a configuration model for a configurable product includes instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to receive a first input, and define, based on the first input, a first version of a ... 06/16/05 - 20050131564 - Method for target queue time calculation in semiconductor manufacturing planning A method is provided for product culmination estimation in a microelectronics manufacturing environment. The method includes providing a manufacturing executing system including a plurality of processing entities. The manufacturing executing system provides interconnectivity and management of the processing entities. The method also assigns a standard queue time factor to product ... 06/02/05 - 20050119773 - Harness design supporting apparatus and method, and computer readable recording medium which stores harness design supporting program therein The object is to provide an environment in which dynamic verification of harness design is available, and thereby realizing efficient harness design. The apparatus comprises: a mechanism information storing unit which stores in advance three-dimensional model data of a mechanical component, other than the harness, of the object apparatus; a ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |