Patent ID: 8195321
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for progressively tracking and controlling processing of a plurality of individual physical items required to produce a finished hard copy document product for transport to a destination location, as a result of a production run, through a sequence of processes executed in a workflow procedure intended to produce the finished product, the method comprising steps of: (A) initializing a workflow template identifying each of the plurality of individual items, one or more machines use to produce the finished product, a plurality of processes to be executed by the one or more machines to transform individual items from one state to another, in an order of a sequence of the processes defined in accord with a workflow procedure, and relationships between individual items; (B) starting the production run, to produce the finished product, in accordance with the workflow procedure; (C) during the production run, recording at each respective process executed in the workflow procedure upon completion of item transformation by the respective process, at least: (D) before at least one respective process is executed in the workflow procedure: