Patent ID: 7409264

Claim:
A method for controlling an installation for gathering ( 1 ) flexible part products ( 10 ; 10 . 1 , 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 4 , 10 . 5 ), comprising the steps of gathering part products ( 10 ; 10 . 1 , 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 4 , 10 . 5 ) from supplying streams of one individual product type each; forming a stream of collections ( 20 ) and conveying the collections ( 20 ) to further processing operations ( 3 ), wherein each collection ( 20 ) consists of a predetermined quantity of part products ( 10 ; 10 . 1 , 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 4 , 10 . 5 ); and computing a quota of faulty collections; if said quota of faulty collections does not exceed a predetermined reference limit, regarding the faulty collections ( 20 ) as faultless collections and processing the faulty collections ( 20 ) like faultless collections, and if said quota of faulty collections does exceed the predetermined reference limit, performing a fault corrective action.