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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2006
Mark A. Glavach, Slippery Rock, PA (US);
John T. Campbell, Jr., Bridgeville, PA (US);
Scott A. Miller, Oakdale, PA (US);
Keith A. Overstreet, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Randall P. Sadowski, Hookstown, PA (US);
David T. Sturrock, Evans City, PA (US);
Mark A. Glavach, Slippery Rock, PA (US);
John T. Campbell, Jr., Bridgeville, PA (US);
Scott A. Miller, Oakdale, PA (US);
Keith A. Overstreet, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Randall P. Sadowski, Hookstown, PA (US);
David T. Sturrock, Evans City, PA (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
A system that tracks a lot of items being manufactured comprises a receiver component that receives control logics for manufacturing the lot, the control logics include information relating to number of items within the lot and number of items within sublots. A partitioning component automatically creates a plurality of virtual sublots that represent sublots being manufactured. A tracking component automatically tracks each of the sublots across multiple processes during manufacture of the items and associates tracking data with corresponding virtual sublots.