Patent ID: 7162319

Claim:
A method for providing a troubleshooting response for a manufacturing process, said method being suitable for use in connection with a web converting manufacturing process producing during a production run a composite product from a sequential addition of component parts, said method comprising: monitoring the production run by a information exchange system linked to a communications network, wherein said communications network is linked to at least one other system, wherein the other system has additional data related to the production run and the additional data comprises raw material data; automatically inspecting at a first aspect of a composite product being produced during the production run to determine a component attribute of said first aspect; automatically determining a plurality of machine settings of a machine associated with the web converting process at a first time; obtaining from the information exchange system via the communications network a relationship between the component attribute of the first aspect and the plurality of machine settings wherein the identified relationship is a function of the additional data; and identifying a troubleshooting action based on the relationship between the component attribute of the first aspect and the plurality of machine settings obtained from the information exchange.