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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
John C Hogge, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364402 ; 364406 ; 364408 ; 364468 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for production planning in a manufacturing facility is provided. The apparatus and method generates a plurality of theoretical plans and a constraint-based model for receiving one of the theoretical production plans, and applying at least one constraint thereto. Further, a cost function is computed for the theoretical production plans. Then, the apparatus and method searches for a feasible production plan among the plurality of theoretical plans, where the feasible plan is the plan which does not violate the applied constraint and has the least computed cost function.