Patent ID: 6606530
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
A method for with respect to a first final product operating a processing flow that contains a predetermined sequence of processing steps, each step being mapped on a particular capacity source that may be applied one or more times in the flow,said method being characterized by assigning at various control capacity sources relative priorities to its mapped control processing steps according to a relatively weighted set of at least two among the following relative ranked priorities: a. a priority-raising ranked Relative Backlog Level for such control processing step with respect to the product in question; b. a priority-raising ranked Relative Load for such control processing step with respect to the next applicable control processing step; c. a priority-raising ranked Relative Load for the actual processing step; d. a priority-raising ranked processing step number or nearness of the processing step in question to the end of its process flow.