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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicants:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1211 (2013.01); G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1275 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
To preserve job integrity and minimize multi-site coordination overhead such as shipping, a technique to control the amount of outsourcing activities in a distributed manufacturing environment is provided. This approach to multi-site scheduling allows outsourcing control for distributed cellular manufacturing based on scheduling constraints called outsourcing group constraints.