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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Apriori Technologies, Inc., Concord, MA (US);
Michael L. Philpott, Seymour, IL (US);
Jeremy D. Rishel, Boston, MA (US);
Elisha Gallaudet, Arlington, MA (US);
Emmanuel Gerlovin, Wayland, MA (US);
aPriori Technologies, Inc., Concord, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and corresponding system is provided for determining an optimum manufacturing process routing. The method comprises electronically constructing a plurality of manufacturing process routings for a component to be manufactured. The electronically constructing for each manufacturing process routing of the plurality of manufacturing process routings comprises defining a recursive process routing tree for each manufacturing process routing, the recursive process routing tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes corresponding to a manufacturing process and comprising a branch node when the manufacturing process for a given node may be decomposed into a plurality of sub-processes for the given node. The method further comprises electronically determining an optimum process routing by evaluating each recursive process routing tree with reference to a cost for manufacturing the component to be optimized and determining the optimum process routing that minimizes the cost for manufacturing the component.