Assembly line control system
CA 2280419 C · Owner: Honda Canada Incorporated · Inventors: French, Jeff; Madden, Rick
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An assembly line control system, and more particularly an automotive assembly line storage and lot controlled system is disclosed. A communications network is overlaid onto a manufacturing assembly line. The assembly line includes a number of readers and processing stations to determine and confirm the identity of vehicles passing proximate to the readers and processing stations and the vehicles build instructions, status position, condition, defect and repair history etc. This information is stored in a computer database. Based on the information stored about the vehicles the status of inventories, production schedules and the like a routing of the vehicles through the manufacturing …
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- Filed August 16, 1999 and granted January 23, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 16, 2019.
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