Patent ID: 9741015
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A system comprising: one or more hardware processors; and a computer readable storage device, coupled with the one or more processors, the computer readable storage device comprising: a bill of materials stored on the computer readable storage device, listing multiple components to be assembled; a mapping table stored on the computer readable storage device having rows listing components of the bill of materials and a routing attribute for each of the components, the mapping table identifying a uniform set of rules valid for a first system and a second system in a manufacturing process to synchronize the first system and the second system by creating a link between a routing of the first system and a routing of the second system, wherein the routing of the first system is structured differently than the routing of the second system; a plurality of routing templates stored on the computer readable storage device, the routing templates identifying work centers and routing operations between work centers; and a route generator to map components from the bill of materials to a routing template and its operations using the mapping table; the computer readable storage device including instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising: analyzing the bill of materials to identify the components in an order corresponding to an order of assembling the components during manufacture; linking the components to the mapping table; determining a first routing template for the first system that best matches the components in the bill of materials based on the linking of the components to the mapping table; selecting the first routing template from the plurality of routing templates based on the mapping table to generate a routing for the components; determining a second routing template for the second system that best matches the components in the bill of materials based on the linking of the component to the mapping table: selecting the second routing, template from the plurality of routing templates based on the mapping table to generate a routing for the components, wherein the first routing template is different than the second routing template; and modifying the selected second routing template based on the mapping table to generate a routing for the identified components.