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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:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeru Matsumoto, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
The production control system of this invention includes a request system for setting executive functions to be executed for controlling apparatuses installed in manufacturing plants, and an agent system for instructing execution systems for controlling the apparatuses installed in the manufacturing plants to execute the executive functions. The agent system is connected with the request system or the execution systems through a computer network. Therefore, the request system controls the apparatuses installed in the manufacturing plants through the agent system.