3m Innovative Properties Company

Cory D Sauer

Steven P Floeder

Jeffrey P Adolf

Gregory P Moriarty

Gilles J Benoit

Brian E Brooks

Aaron K Nienaber

Nicholas A Johnson

Jon A Kirschhoffer

Glenn E Casner

Maureen Ann Kavanagh

Frederick J Arsenault

Himanshu Nayar

Peter O Olson

Tyler W Olson

Jonathan B Arthur

Brett R Hemes

Thomas J Strey

Patrick G Zimmerman

Nathan J Herbst

Christopher M Brown

Timothy J Clemens

Mark W Orlando

Lori A Sjolund

Andreas Backes

Peter J Schneider

Miaoding Dai

Carter C Hughes

Sarah M Mullins

Zachary M Schaeffer

Scott L Barnett

A system includes a robot, a measuring device, and a processor. The robot is configured to dispense, based on at least one process parameter, a liquid adhesive bead onto a substrate. The measuring device is configured to measure at least one characteristic of the bead shape. The processor is configured to determine, based on a reference bead shape and at least one reference process parameter, response surface profile of the liquid adhesive. The processor is configured to compare the measured bead shape to a reference bead shape and, responsive to determining the measured bead shape is different than the reference bead shape, determine, based on the response surface profile, at least one updated process parameter. The updated process parameter is configured to cause the robot to dispense a second bead having the reference bead shape.

Automated liquid adhesive dispensing using portable measuring device

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing a process of manufacturing a product. In one aspect, the method comprises repeatedly performing the following: i) selecting a configuration of input settings for manufacturing a product, based on a causal model that measures causal relationships between input settings and a measure of a quality of the product; ii) determining the measure of the quality of the product manufactured using the configuration of input settings; and iii) adjusting, based on the measure of the quality of the product manufactured using the configuration of input settings, the causal model.

Manufacturing a product using causal models

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Cory D Sauer