Patent ID: 7894919

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a computer-usable storage medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for calibrating size of flowable material dots applied onto a workpiece surface, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for measuring the size of the dots on the workpiece surface; computer readable program code means for determining rate of change of the size of the dots on the workpiece surface; computer readable program code means for determining average size of the dots on the workpiece surface; computer readable program code means for determining difference in size between dots on the workpiece surface; and computer readable program code means for adjusting parameters for dispensing the flowable material onto the workpiece surface based on one or more of the determinations of rate of change of the size of the dots, average size of the dots and difference in size between smallest and largest dots on the workpiece surface.