Patent ID: 8903528

Claim:
A method of remotely managing a vessel forming production line, said method comprising: communicating, from a remote data processing resource, a plurality of consumer or event data to a controller configured to control a plurality of vessel forming stations, each vessel forming station having at least one operation wheel, a plurality of shape forming operations, and a plurality of non-shape forming operations; configuring, by the controller, a rotational index of an operation wheel of a first of said plurality of vessel forming stations based in part on said plurality of consumer or event data, to select among said shape forming and non-shape forming operations; dynamically selecting, by the controller in response to receiving said plurality of consumer or event data, between a clockwise or counter-clockwise pathway along the configured rotational index inclusive of said shape forming and non-shape forming operations based on said plurality of consumer or event data; and manufacturing, by at least one of said plurality of vessel forming stations, a shaped vessel by traversing the shaped vessel along the dynamically selected pathway.