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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1993
Marta A Galuga, Rochester, NY (US);
Jay A Glaspy, Jr, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for utilizing the characteristics of a pallet, or tray, used to supply workpieces to an automated, flexible assembly station or workcell. Once the characteristics are described and stored in memory, they may be used to uniquely identify workpieces which are determined to be defective during the automatic assembly operations. The defect information may then be stored in a cell controller which controls one or more workcells for later recall, in order to determine what, if any, further processing should be conducted on the defective workpieces and to prevent further processing thereof.