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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2013
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Brett D. Irick, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jerome A. Berendt, Brighton, MI (US);
Richard J. Hare, Lincoln Park, MI (US);
Stephen Kernosky, Livonia, MI (US);
Laurent Bernard Chappuis, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
James Engle, Chesterfield, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A manufacturing process including a quality control procedure for verifying the completion of forming processes, heat treating and chemically treating parts. Sheet formed blanks, tubular blanks, extrusions and casting are traced through a manufacturing process from the time the parts are received. Metallurgical data relating to parts as received is recorded and marked on the parts. Forming data, heat treating data and chemical treating data may also be recorded by scanning and marking parts throughout the manufacturing process.