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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2018
Swisslog Logistics, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Robert Anthony Hoffman, Marysville, MI (US);
Steven J. Thorne, Yorktown, VA (US);
Terry Joseph Krantz, Greenville, SC (US);
Swisslog Logistics, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Abstract
A manufacturing system () comprises: one or more stores (A-C;) for raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished goods; a plurality of manufacturing cells (AF), each cell includes: one or more machines (A-C) for manufacturing an assembly; and a programmable logic controller (PLC) () for controlling the machines; one or more devices () for moving raw material, WIP, and finished goods; and one or more servers () for communicating with the PLCs and the devices. The one or more servers further have programming for: instructing () the plurality of manufacturing cells to assemble finished goods from the raw materials; instructing () the one or more devices to move said raw materials and finished goods; and just in sequence (JIS) skipped assembly recovery steps () for the manufacturing cells and devices.