Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Patent
1998-01-16
2000-08-08
Grant, William
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
395500, G06F 1540
Patent
active
061014230
ABSTRACT:
The component parts for assembly of a device, such as the passive optical components of an optical amplifier, are automatically selected from among a supply of available component parts. Each component part has a performance parameter such as insertion loss associated therewith. Stored in a database memory are component part data for each component part of the supply of available component parts. The component part data are in a computer readable format and indicative of a type of each part and the performance parameter of each part. To obtain the selection of parts of the device for assembly, the component part data for a plurality of the available component parts is retrieved from the database, and the thus retrieved plurality of component part data are sorted according to at least the performance parameter of each retrieved component part data. At least one component part among the sorted component part data is selected based on a preset parameter. Then, at least one remaining component part among the sorted component part data is identified based at least on the performance parameter of the at least one component part and the performance parameter of the at least one remaining component part.
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Alexander Steve B.
Csipkes Andrei
Pradieu Yves
Schwarten Dave A.
Sridhar Balakrishnan
Bahta Kidest
Ciena Corporation
Daisak Daniel N.
Grant William
Soltz David L.
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