Patent ID: 8175733
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of defining and using marker points within a modeled manufacturing process routing that comprises multiple sequenced operations, the method comprising: receiving user input that defines marker points within the modeled manufacturing process routing and between sequential ones of the operations, the one or more marker points each defining a user-defined point within a manufacturing process; receiving user input that selects, for each defined marker point, one of multiple different defined types that each define a different use for a marker point, wherein (i) an execution type is selected for a set of the markers, and (ii) a planning type is selected for another at least one of the markers, wherein the planning type marker is located among the set of execution type markers and defines planning operations; and detecting, while operating a computing process that uses the manufacturing routing, if any marker points of a specified one type of the multiple different defined types have been defined in the manufacturing process routing, and if a marker point having the specified one type is detected, executing a predefined computing function that uses the detected marker point.