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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Erick F. Stamm, Dublin, OH (US);
Michael Endsley, Marysville, OH (US);
Honda of America Mfg. Inc., Maryshire, OH (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for delivering supplies from a loading dock to a production line using a supply delivery computer system that interfaces with a conveyor computer system to control transportation of supplies from a conveyor system to pickup stations and a vehicle facility manager computer system to control automated guided vehicles that transport supplies from pickup stations on the conveyor system to delivery stations on a production line. Supplies are labeled with barcodes indicating production line delivery location (i.e., an identifier for a delivery station), load sequence number, load quantity, and lot number to facilitate tracking and routing from the time they are unloaded at the manufacturing plant loading dock on to the conveyor system until they delivered to delivery stations on the production line.