METHOD TO IMPROVE REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN MANUFACTURING, AND TRANSPORTATION IN MASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES THROUGH ANALYSIS OF DEFECT DATA

Patent №

US 7,305,325

Granted

2007-12-04

Filed 2006

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11330823

A computer-implemented method of optimizing at least one production or testing processes in a mass manufacturing industry, includes steps of: collecting error data relating to a product at a plurality of points along its production and distribution chain; classifying the error data into categories of errors to provide classified error data; analyzing relationships among the classified error data; and suggesting modifications to at least one of the production or testing processes based on the analysis.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
AI hardware0.92
Machine learning0.85
Natural language0.81
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 170860482

Assignors

KOSTYK, TIM J., KRATSCHMER, THERESA C., LAYTON, JEFF R., MALKIN, PETER K., PERUN, STEPHEN G., PYRA, KENNETH L., SANTHANAM, PADMANABHAN, THOMAS, JOHN C., WELLER, SCOTT W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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