Patent ID: 6502301
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: B23P,Y10T

Abstract:
A manufacturing plant for manufacturing rigid bodies comprised of a plurality of parts to be assembled by at least two operators having hierarchical skill levels selected from alignment types ranging from Or to P selected from an alignment transformation consisting of Or, Oa, Br, Ba,S, L and P, comprising an alignment unit having at least three work stations, each of said work stations being capable of having associated therewith dynamically occurring manufacturing operations selected from one or more of the dynamically occurring alignment-based transformation of manufacturing operations identified as alignment types Or, Oa, Br, Ba, S, L and P and having parts of the rigid bodies to be assembled in the manufacturing plant being delivered to the at least three work stations in accordance with the alignment-based manufacturing operation to be performed at the work stations to provide work-in-process whereby each of the at least two operators can perform at least one alignment-based manufacturing operation at each work station to provide a subsystem and thereafter permitting the operator to move from that one work station to another work station to perform another alignment-based manufacturing operation within the hierarchical skill level of the operator at the another work station.