Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-14
2010-11-23
Barnes-Bullock, Crystal J (Department: 2121)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S029000, C700S033000, C700S044000, C700S103000, C702S182000, C706S021000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07840297
ABSTRACT:
Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production, control and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one implementation, the present invention facilitates or enables the use of indirect process variables for use in manufacturing or other processes that yield articles or parts. For example, it enables determining a desired value profile for an indirect process variable based on the operating target, the lower operating limit and the upper operating limit for the predictor characteristic, and observations of the process. In one implementation, the present invention facilitates qualifying articles resulting from the process by comparing the desired versus observed value profiles for an indirect process variable. In another implementation, the present invention facilitates controlling a direct process variable based on the observed versus desired values of an indirect process variable.
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