Craig A Macdonnell

US Patent:

62403281, May 29, 2001

Filed:

Apr 27, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/430111

Inventors:

John D. LaLonde - Mesa AZ
Craig A. MacDonnell - Mesa AZ
David Cucuzella - Gilbert AZ

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G06F 1900

US Classification:

700 95

Abstract:

A manufacturing method is provided for assembling a number of products by generating and scheduling dynamically a number of assembly instructions from modeling information. The manufacturing method generates exact assembly instructions for the full theoretical scope of the product line. The generated instructions do not require any human lookup or inference. Even exact instructions for configured components of the final product are generated. Which instructions are required to build the final product are derived from a "model" of the product.