3m Innovative Properties Company

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Cristina U Thomas

Neal A Rakow

Lawrence J Ptasienski

Thomas I Insley

Michael E Hamerly

Kenneth J Krepel

Paul A Sevcik

Brian S McGinley

Michael F Weber

Raghunath Padiyath

David F Slama

Charles A Marttila

Randy S Bay

Sithya S Khieu

Gary L Curtis

Richard T Paxton

Jonathan J Mattson

Patrick R Fleming

Marc Dudley Radcliffe

David C May

Greggory S Bennett

David Jon Lundin

Michael D Delmore

Bimal V Thakkar

Ronald W Gerdes

Gina M Buccellato

Feng Bai

Douglas A Huntley

Richard H Ferber

Jamieson C Keister

Gary R Miron

Manish Jain

Warren J Johnson

Robert E Holler

Susan E Peters

Brian S Mcginley

Method and system are disclosed for determining conditions of components that are removably coupled to articles of personal protection equipment (PPE) by tracking the components against predetermined criteria.

Determining conditions of components removably coupled to personal protection equipment

The present disclosure is particularly adapted for determining whether the condition of personal protection equipment PPE articles satisfies at least one criterion. A method and system provide at least one predetermined criterion that governs use of the PPE article in a working environment; a PPE article is configured with a smart tag, and a sensing device is provided that is configured to sense data in a working environment related to the predetermined criterion. Acquired data from the sensing device and the smart tag are processed in a data processing system to determine whether the condition of the PPE article satisfies the at least one predetermined criterion.

Personal protection article system

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

Determining conditions of personal protection articles against at least one criterion

Methods and systems for tracking compliance of personal protection (PP) articles in working environments. Tracking compliance includes providing at least one PP article configured with a smart tag; providing at least one predetermined criterion that governs compliance with respect to the at least one PP article in a particular working environment; tracking the PP article by retrieving smart tag data; and determining whether the smart tag data satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; and storing data relating to results of the determination.

Tracking compliance of personal protection articles

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Stillwater, MN, United States of America

Cristina U Thomas