Patent ID: 6944512
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: G05B,G06Q,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A system for decentralized production of selected products from differing starting materials, comprising: at least one decentralized automated process system, which processes the supplied starting materials into a selected product based on formulation data supplied to the process system; a central computational device geographically remote from the process system; a data interface associated with the process system, which exchanges data via a communications medium with the central computational device; and an input device connected to the data interface, through which a product selection is entered; wherein the central computational device is configured to receive the product selection; to access a formulation data collection containing a plurality of sets of formulation data for a plurality of differing products; to select at least one of the formulation data sets matching the product selection; and to transmit the formulation data contained in the selected formulation data set to the process system via the communications medium.