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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2022
Ats Corporation, Cambridge, CA;
Kenneth Wayne Nicholson, Cambridge, CA;
Philip David Munroe, Cambridge, CA;
James Mark Mclean, Cambridge, CA;
Robert James Macgregor, Cambridge, CA;
David Andrew Tait, Cambridge, CA;
Gustavo Barea, Cambridge, CA;
ATS CORPORATION, Cambridge, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for mass producing different products in an automated production station having a plurality of part-processing devices. An example method includes identifying a workpiece received in the production station; selecting control parameters associated with the identified workpiece; electronically synchronizing the part-processing devices based on the selected control parameters to perform coordinated operations on the workpiece for producing one of the different products; and automatically repeating the identifying, selecting, and synchronizing steps for different workpieces received in the production station to produce a plurality of different products in a continuous mass production process.