A manufacturing facility and a manufacturing method are provided herein to manufacture a product according to a specification in a digital manufacturing order. Manufacturing system units to be used are automatically scheduled (S2) and controlled (S3). While performing the manufacturing method, it is determined (S4) whether inspection data for a production result meet assessment criteria. Upon determining that a production result does not meet an assessment criterion, a derived manufacturing order is generated that specifies which production step(s) need to be repeated to obtain a production result that is more likely to meet the assessment criterion. The scheduling is updated in accordance with the derived manufacturing order and optionally newly received manufacturing orders resulting in a continuous manufacturing process.

Methods and systems are provided for mass producing different products in an automated production station having a plurality of part-processing devices. An example method includes identifying a workpiece received in the production station; selecting control parameters associated with the identified workpiece; electronically synchronizing the part-processing devices based on the selected control parameters to perform coordinated operations on the workpiece for producing one of the different products; and automatically repeating the identifying, selecting, and synchronizing steps for different workpieces received in the production station to produce a plurality of different products in a continuous mass production process.

An automatic storage and retrieval system includes a framework structure defining a storage grid for storing storage containers in storage columns. The storage containers are handled by the container handling vehicles running on top of the storage grid. A port is used for transferring storage containers to and from the storage and retrieval system. A method for utilizing operational capacity of container handling vehicles when assigned tasks of delivering or retrieving identified storage containers at the same port of the automatic storage and retrieval system includes the following steps performed by a control system communicating with a vehicle controller in each container handling vehicle: assigning tasks without deadlines and with deadlines for the container handling vehicles to arrive at the port; calculating end times and end positions of the container handling vehicles when the assigned tasks without a deadline complete; checking if container handling vehicles can meet a deadline after first completing a task without a deadline; ranking the tasks assigned to the container handling vehicles, where tasks that can meet the deadline, after first finishing a task without a deadline, are ranked first, and further according to arrival times of the container handling vehicles at the port; and executing tasks by communicating instructions to the container handling vehicles according to the ranking of tasks.

A component manufacturing device called Auto-Fab (100) is disclosed. Each Auto-Fab system is a self-contained device including a housing (150), tools (120), robotics (110), sensors (113), and computing functionality (115) that is configured to manufacture a variety of components (160) using various materials available at a location of the Auto-Fab. The Auto-Fab, using the robotics and tools, may be programed to autonomously perform a variety of manufacturing techniques including, but not limited to, deformation, casting, machining, and welding The manufacturing processes used by the Auto-Fab for a particular component may be designed using an iterative feedback method (200; 300) where the manufacturing processes are continuously tweaked and tuned based on a comparison of a manufactured component with predicted attributes.

A system and method include dividing, by a processor of a manufacturing execution system (MES), a time axis associated with a time window into a plurality of time slots, assigning an integer value to an integer variable indexed by a slot identifier, a machine identifier, and a wafer lot identifier, specifying one or more constraints based on the integer variable, wherein the one or more constraints comprise a wafer quantity constraint and a Q-time constraint, executing an optimization solver under the one or more constraints to determine a time and a quantity of wafer lots to be provided to each machine associated with the time window, and issuing a request to a controller to cause provision of the quantity of wafer lots to each machine associated with each step in the time window.

The present disclosure relates to a rapid-response intelligent scheduling method and system for a semiconductor packaging and testing workshop. Workshop operation data is transmitted to a bottleneck identification module by means of a graphical user interface (GUI) module; the bottleneck identification module identifies all bottleneck processes by means of a buffer-bottleneck index bottleneck identification method; the GUI module and the bottleneck identification module transmit workshop scheduling data and a bottleneck process identification result to a scheduling module, respectively; an intelligent scheduling sub-module establishes a bottleneck process scheduling model in a semiconductor packaging and testing workshop, and inputs a bottleneck process scheduling solution into a rule-based scheduling sub-module; and the rule-based scheduling sub-module generates a global scheduling solution and transmits the global scheduling solution to the GUI module for arranging production.

Present disclosure relates to method and synchronization system for synchronizing plurality of events associated with one or more processes in assembly line for tracing entity. Initially, information related to plurality of events associated with one or more processes from one or more devices is received, where each of the plurality of events comprises respective first timestamp. Upon receiving, the first timestamp between each of the plurality of events is synchronized by performing first level and second level synchronization. The synchronization converts first timestamp into second timestamp with respect to common reference timestamp. Further, the synchronization system may identify one or more defects based on quality value assigned to entity. Thus, the present disclosure helps the synchronization system to efficiently trace entity when a defect is identified and replaces/repairs the entity.

A flexible job-shop production scheduling method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: generating an initialized population according to information of workpieces to be produced, the population including a plurality of production scheduling schemes, and each production scheduling scheme representing a scheduling sequence of said workpieces; and performing iterative update on the population on the basis of a preset target iterative algorithm, and determining a target production scheduling scheme according to the iterative process.

An information processing system includes a processor configured to: display, in a first display area on a display, multiple job elements representing details of jobs; associate the job elements with each other; and when a job element is selected, display an already-displayed job element, which is associated with the selected job element and which is currently displayed in the first display area, with a different display form than other job elements not associated with the selected job element, and display a non-displayed job element, which is associated with the selected job element and which is not currently displayed in the first display area, in a second display area on the display.

It is possible to update a process plan, a work plan, and a production plan in a short time with respect to a production fluctuation event and flexibly deal with the production fluctuation. A production planning device includes: a process plan generation unit which generates a plurality of process plans including an alternative process plan, the process plans relating to a production process of a product; a work plan generation unit which generates a work plan corresponding to each of the process plans; a production plan generation unit which generates a production plan using the plurality of process plans and the work plan; and a production plan redrafting unit which redrafts a production plan using the plurality of process plans and the work plan when a production fluctuation event occurs.