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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
May. 18, 2009
Boris I. Paskalev, Cambridge, MA (US);
Henri B. Weinberg, Lexington, MA (US);
Christian H. Hescock, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jay T. Moody, Wayland, MA (US);
Craig A. Fowler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Boris I. Paskalev, Cambridge, MA (US);
Henri B. Weinberg, Lexington, MA (US);
Christian H. Hescock, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jay T. Moody, Wayland, MA (US);
Craig A. Fowler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Vistaprint Technologies Limited, Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
System and method for automated scheduling and creation of gang shells specifying gangs of individual jobs for production to be created and produced in the future. Individual jobs and related production parameters and order information are retained electronically in a database of pending jobs awaiting production. Based on production capacity at the production facility and the production parameters of the individual pending jobs in the database, a plurality of gang shells having defined production parameters, but not having specific individual jobs associated therewith, are defined and used for scheduling equipment and personnel at the production facility during a work shift or other desired period of time. The specific individual jobs for a gang are selected from the database relatively shortly prior to the gang's scheduled production time.