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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2007
Applicant:
Robert Huber, Summerhill, SG;
Inventor:
Robert Huber, Summerhill, SG;
Assignee:
ASM Assembly Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Version management for manufacturing system software involves a two-part data structure, having two identifiers that are separately and automatically modified, depending upon the changes or modifications that are made, respectively, to top-level and lower-level subsets of manufacturing system programs. According to various other aspects of the present invention, methods for managing revisions involve automatically assigning a version designator under preselected conditions, automatically notifying personnel having a need to know of the change, and managing revisions by way of a revision compare function.