Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Perry Allen Bush

Darold Dean Tippey

Michael Roy Pokorny

Douglas Gordon Barron Barber

Charles Earl Markham

John Harland Hise

Timothy P Clare

Kurt Sigurd Nygaard

Gregory Duncan Shaffer

Jon Ray Matheus

Jamie Scott Mork

Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo

Jose Andres Stambuk

Timothy Patrick Clare

The present disclosure is generally directed to a process for controlling the quality of manufactured absorbent articles, the process including incorporating into an absorbent article at least a portion of a wetness sensing system that is configured to detect the presence of a substance, the wetness sensing system comprising at least one metallic conductive element; and passing the absorbent article in proximity to a foreign material sensor employing x-ray technology, the foreign material sensor adapted to detect the presence of foreign material to confirm whether foreign material has been incorporated into the article.

Process for controlling the quality of an absorbent article including a wetness sensing system

Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a method of tracking production information, a method of analyzing event-based production information to provide financial reports, a method of adapting an online production documentation system to provide financial report data, and a production documentation system. Also disclosed are computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing an event-based delay or waste record populated during manufacturing, and a method of automatically generating an alert and providing an associated financial report in a process for manufacturing a product associated with an event-based information system. The embodiments are operable in an intelligent manufacturing system including a process for converting raw materials to a product, a process control system including one or more sensors capable of generating an alarm in response to an event that results in one of waste, machine delay, or decrease product quality, a data logger associated with the process control system for obtaining event parameters associated with the event, a database on a server for recording event parameters obtained by the data logger, and a reporting system cooperatively associated with the database for reporting productivity parameters regarding the process derived at least in part from the event parameters.

Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing

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Perry Allen Bush