A change management system is configured to control communication between one or more engineering subsystems utilized in the design and/or manufacture of a component. The change management system may be configured to facilitate communication between one or more engineering subsystems that are fragmented and/or not configured to communicate with one another. Further, the change management system may be configured to act as a virtual user when interfacing with one or more of the engineering subsystems. Additionally, the change management system may be configured to check data from one or more of the subsystems for compliance with one or more control rules governing the progression of a manufacturing/design project.

The present disclosure provides techniques for determining a manufacturing plan. An example method includes obtaining an initial object definition describing an initial state of a manufacturing plan and obtaining a final object definition describing a target shape of an object to be formed through the manufacturing plan. The method also includes generating a tree comprising a plurality of nodes and edges. Each edge represents a selected manufacturing operation. The nodes include a parent node representing the initial object definition, intermediate child nodes representing an intermediate state of the object, and leaf nodes representing the target shape. The selected manufacturing operation applied at each edge may be a subtractive manufacturing (SM) operation or an additive manufacturing (AM) operation. The method also includes identifying a lowest cost manufacturing plan comprising a sequence of manufacturing operation connecting the parent node and one of the leaf nodes.

A system for controlling one or more aggregate processing plants which utilizes a common control module disposed on each plant, where the module is produced to be functionally identical to, interchangeable with and replaceable by the same model of the model from the same manufacture. When several plants are configured to be controlled by the common control module, and the modules are interconnected by a canbus, then each module can be used to control the entire system of plants and individual other plants in the system without the need for any central control hub and spoke control lines extending directly to each of the plants. The system can be easily (with activation of just one button) set up to allow for common control of the various plants.

According to an embodiment, a material recommendation apparatus includes an extractor, a creator, a matcher and a recommender. The extractor extracts information about a substance as a candidate for a material for an industrial product, a property of the substance, and a report time of the property from an electronic document. The creator creates, for each substance, time series data in which the property is associated with the report time. The matcher matches the time series data with a pattern. The recommender recommends, as the material, a substance corresponding to time series data that matches the pattern.

A kit enables an efficient and contamination-free method of changing a resin used in a three dimensional printer from a first resin to a second resin. The three dimensional printer includes a print engine and a receptacle. The kit includes a conduit assembly and a resin container. The conduit assembly includes a fluid inlet configured to be affixed in the receptacle in an upward orientation, a pump head configured to be coupled to a motorized pump actuator in the receptacle, a first conduit coupling the fluid inlet to the pump head, a fluid outlet configured to supply resin to the print engine, and a second conduit coupling the pump head to the fluid outlet.

A material management method applied to a battery production line includes controlling, after a plurality of battery cells placed on a plurality of stations reach designated code scanning positions, a plurality of blocking devices to work in a first working state according to a predetermined sequence, thereby blocking identifications of the battery cells on the corresponding stations, acquiring code scanning results of a plurality of code scanning devices corresponding to the blocking devices for the identifications, respectively, when the blocking devices work in the first working state, and determining, according to the code scanning results, whether a binding relationship between the code scanning devices and the stations is abnormal.

A manufacturing process management (MPM) computer device is provided. The MPM computer device includes a processor and at least one memory device. The MPM computer device is configured to receive a first engineering design for a first configuration of a product to be assembled including an engineering bill of materials and a plurality of requirements, receive a first manufacturing process plan for the first configuration of the product including a plurality of operations, compare the plurality of operations with the plurality of requirements to determine whether each requirement of the plurality of requirements is met by at least one of the plurality of operations, associate each requirement with one or more of the plurality of operations based on the comparison, receive a notification from a user indicating that a first operation is complete, and store an indication that one or more requirements associated with the first operation are complete.

A manufacturing process management (MPM) computer device is provided. The MPM computer device is configured to store a first version of a product and a second version of the product. The second version includes the first plurality of parts, the second plurality of parts, and a third plurality of parts associated with the plug. The first location is between the first plurality of locations and the second plurality of locations. The MPM computer device is also configured to calculate a first numbering system, calculate a second numbering system for a third plurality of locations associated with the third plurality of parts, determine a first grid overlay for the first version of the product based on the first numbering system, determine a second grid overlay for the second version of the product based on the first numbering system and the second numbering system.

A manufacturing process management (MPM) computer device is provided. The MPM computer device is configured to store a first version of a product and a second version of the product. The second version includes the first plurality of parts, the second plurality of parts, and a third plurality of parts associated with the plug. The first location is between the first plurality of locations and the second plurality of locations. The MPM computer device is also configured to calculate a first numbering system, calculate a second numbering system for a third plurality of locations associated with the third plurality of parts, determine a first grid overlay for the first version of the product based on the first numbering system, determine a second grid overlay for the second version of the product based on the first numbering system and the second numbering system.

An injection molding management system includes: a molding information storage unit configured to store molding information on the usage of each type of molding material used in forming product molding, for each kind of molding; a remaining product quantity calculator configured to calculate the remaining product quantity of each kind of molding; a total usage calculator configured to calculate the total usage of each type of molding material used in the injection molding machines, based on the molding information of each kind of molding and the remaining product quantity of molding; a stock quantity storage unit configured to store the stock quantity of molding material; and an order quantity calculator configured to calculate the order quantity of each type of molding material, based on the total usage and the stock quantity of the molding material.