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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2020
Applicant:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/41885 (2013.01); G05B 19/4187 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a system and method for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process executed by an automation facility, the system including a model memory which stores a probabilistic model of a distribution of object exchange times of objects used or consumed in the automation process; and an optimizer adapted to calculate optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of an object storage magazine depending on the probabilistic model and depending on a sequence of productive non-idle times of objects used or consumed in process steps of the automation process.