The invention relates to a method for the harmonization of color in manufactured items, which allows color tolerances to be established based on pre-defined values and visual observations for the different parts that form the item and the operating conditions for the manufacture of said parts by which means the colors falling within said tolerances can be obtained as well as the acceptance of the color harmonization of the final product by means of the use of algorithms and visual examination by a person or a machine.

A management apparatus manages works to supply components to component mounting devices in a component mounting line. The management apparatus includes a component remaining number information acquisition portion that acquires, from each of the component mounting devices, a remaining number of components stored in the component mounting device, a worker information storage portion that stores worker information including a working range of each of workers in the component mounting line, a work sequence decision portion that generates work sequence information indicating a work sequence of component supply works for each of the workers based on the worker information and component remaining number information about a plurality of components within a predetermined period of time, and an information transmission portion that transmits the work sequence information to the workers who should perform the works.

A method includes pumping cement to a bore of a shifting sleeve disposed in a ported component seated in a cased bore above a liner; flowing the cement from the bore of the shifting sleeve through radial passages of the shifting sleeve and radial passages of the ported component; and flowing the cement to an annulus between a casing of the cased bore and the liner.

A data communication method for reducing a working time of an automated material handling system between a master communication device installed in an unmanned transfer device and a slave communication device installed in a manufacturing facility in the automated material handling system which transfers a carrier between manufacturing facilities through the unmanned transfer device where the method is to reduce a working time for a carrier by transmitting and receiving data to and from a manufacturing facility while an unmanned transfer device is stopped before performing a carrier work or while it is moving after performing a carrier work, when the unmanned transfer device and the manufacturing facility transmit and receive data for transferring the carrier by using a wireless data communicating device in an automated material handling system.

According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising a flow module to receive one or more objectives for a flow in the production of an object; a memory for storing program instructions; a flow processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the flow module and operative to execute program instructions to: receive a request from a user for a current state of a flow for the object; retrieve metadata and data from the physical world associated with the object; determine a current phase in the flow for the object; select an analytic model to determine the current state of the flow for the object; instantiate a digital twin for the current phase in the flow for the object; execute the selected analytic for the instantiated digital twin; generate a response to the request including the current state of the flow for the object based on the executed analytic; and display the response on a display. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A management apparatus manages works to supply components to component mounting devices in a component mounting line. The management apparatus includes a component remaining number information acquisition portion that acquires, from each of the component mounting devices, a remaining number of components stored in the component mounting device, a worker information storage portion that stores worker information including a working range of each of workers in the component mounting line, a work sequence decision portion that generates work sequence information indicating a work sequence of component supply works for each of the workers based on the worker information and component remaining number information about a plurality of components within a predetermined period of time, and an information transmission portion that transmits the work sequence information to the workers who should perform the works.

An assembly includes a ported component that includes a bore, radial passages, and axial passages; and a shifting sleeve that comprises a bore, radial passages, seal bosses and associated seal elements that define at least one sealed region with respect to the radial passages of the ported component and that define an open region with respect to the radial passages of the ported component.

A method of material flow optimization in an industrial process by using an integrated optimizing system is described. The integrated optimizing system includes: a high-level optimizer module describing the material flow by coarse high-level process parameters and including an optimization program for the high-level process parameters, the optimization program being dependent on high-level model parameters and including an objective function subject to constraints; a low-level simulation module for simulating the material flow, the low-level simulation module including a low-level simulation function adapted for obtaining detailed low-level material flow data based on the high-level process parameters; and an aggregator module including an aggregator function adapted for calculating the high-level model parameters based on the low-level material flow data. The method includes approaching an optimum value of the objective function by iteratively modifying the high-level process parameters, wherein an iteration includes: carrying out, by the low-level simulation module, a low-level simulation thereby obtaining the detailed low-level material flow data; aggregating, by the aggregator module, the low-level material flow data thereby calculating, from the low-level material flow data, aggregated high-level model parameters; inputting the aggregated high-level model parameters into the optimization program.

The invention relates to a method for transferring a pourable medium (10) from a first vessel (12) into a second vessel (14), by means of a robot arm (16), wherein a movement 118) of the robot arm (16) can be controlled by at least one movement parameter (BP), including, inter alia, the following method steps: d) determining the mass of the medium (10) transferred into the second vessel (14) as an actual filling mass (IFM), and also the variation over time of the actual filling mass (IFM) of the medium (30; as an actual mass flow (IMS), by means of a balance 124), c) calculating a correcting mass flow (StMS) as a correcting variable (26) of a first control circuit (28) while taking into account the actual filling mass (FM) and the intended filling mass (SFM), f) using the correcting variable (26) of die first control circuit (28) as a reference variable (30) of a second control circuit (32) for the purpose that the calculated correcting mass flow (StMS) is used as the intended mass flow (SMS), g) calculating the at least one movement parameter (BP) of the robot arm (16) as a correcting variable (40) of the second control circuit (32) while taking into account the intended mass flow (SMS) and the actual mass flow (IMS), and h) performing, the movement (18) of the robot arm (16), or, the basis of the at least one movement parameter (BP). The invention also relates to a device (2) for carrying out the above method.

The present teachings relate to a method for improving a production process for manufacturing a chemical product using at least one input material at an industrial plant, the industrial plant comprising a plurality of physically separated equipment zones, the method comprising: providing, via an interface, an upstream object identifier comprising input material data; receiving, at a computing unit, real-time process data from one or more of the equipment zones; determining, via the computing unit, a subset of the real-time process data based on the upstream object identifier and a zone presence signal; computing, via the computing unit, at least one zone-specific performance parameter of the chemical product related to the upstream object identifier based on the subset of the real-time process data and historical data; determining, in response to at least one of the performance parameters, a target equipment zone where the input material and/or chemical product is to be sent. The present teachings also relate to a system, and a software program.