Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1990-11-03
1993-07-20
Smith, Jerry
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364402, 364148, G06F 1546
Patent
active
052299481
ABSTRACT:
A method of optimizing a multi-stage serial manufacturing system which includes: (a) providing a quantitative state-space model of said serial manufacturing system that describes processing in terms of sensitivity information and performance in terms of part production and storage/retrieval, said description using process switches in the form of buffer status indicators that express coupling between stages; (b) sensing new sensitivity information that results from simulating said manufacturing system with said model using estimated system performance information; and (c) adjusting said performance information by iteratively using said new sensitivity information in an optimization algorithm, said adjustment being carried out simultaneously with the simulation of step (b).
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Otto Norman C.
Wei Kuang C.
Brown Thomas E.
Ford Motor Company
Malleck Joseph W.
May Roger L.
Smith Jerry
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