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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kenneth Yesh, Dearborn, MI (US);
Anthony Mario D'Amato, Canton, MI (US);
Shankar Narayan Mohan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Mario Anthony Santillo, Canton, MI (US);
Gregory P. Linkowski, Dearborn, MI (US);
Meghna Menon, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for reconfiguring a factory having equipment at different workstations throughout the factory and a plurality of sensors disposed throughout the factory includes a factory configuration module configured to store a plurality of predetermined factory configurations and a plurality of mobile transporters configured to engage and transport the equipment to the different workstations throughout the factory based on the predetermined factory configurations and dynamic inputs, where the dynamic inputs include a status of the equipment, a status of the plurality of mobile transporters, sensor data output by the plurality of sensors, or a combination thereof.