3m Innovative Properties Company

Brian S McGinley

Neal A Rakow

Cristina U Thomas

Kenneth J Krepel

Paul A Sevcik

David M Castiglione

Raymond Odell

Benjamin J Cullen

Jon R Wolf

Paul K Johnson

This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for determining whether at least a first component and a second component of a personal protection (PP) configuration are compatible so as to be assembled into an approved PP configuration, responsive to being compared against at least one predetermined criterion. Included is a smart tag for each of the first and second components. The first and second smart tags include respective first and second data. A data acquiring system is provided for acquiring the first and second data and a data processing system processes the acquired first and second data for determining if the first and second components are compatible to be assembled as an approved PP configuration.

Determining compatibility of components for assembling approved personal protection configurations

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Brian S McGinley