Patent ID: 8295964
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting equipment resources in a manufacturing process, which comprises the steps of: creating an execution equipment list by retrieving out of a database one execution equipment required for starting a process segment; retrieving out of the database a list of available sub-equipments of the execution equipment; checking within the list of available sub-equipments an availability of each of a totality of required equipments for each of a totality of work segments of the process segment respectively; selecting the execution equipment for the starting of the process segment; selecting each of the required equipments for execution of each of the work segments respectively, in a case where the required equipments for the work segment is available and on a location of a product to be processed; and creating an output list containing information about assignments of each of the required equipments to each of the work segments respectively in a case where all of the required equipments are available.