Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-21
2009-06-23
Bahta, Kidest (Department: 2123)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C702S188000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07551975
ABSTRACT:
Generating data used in planning the execution of a manufacturing process includes consistency checks that are performed on proposed groupings of manufacturing operations to make sure that the groupings are defined in a way that enables the information to be aggregated for use in planning. To do this, defined groupings are received for multiple execution-level manufacturing operations that are defined in a manufacturing process execution-level electronic data model and that define a process flow to produce a product. In one aspect, for each of the defined groupings, it is determined whether the defined grouping includes multiple occurrences of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps, and if so, the defined groupings are changed so that each defined grouping of the defined groupings has no more than a single occurrence of a process step definition that has multiple different defined alternative steps.
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Materials printed from www.wassermann.de website regarding Wassermann Supply Chain Software (5 pages), printed Mar. 10, 2006.
Kind Jaakob
Steinbach Jochen
Bahta Kidest
Fish & Richardson P.C.
SAP (AG)
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