Scheduling process for automated mattress manufacturing

• Main Author: Jan, Francis G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.07.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Disclosed herein methods for scheduling the automated manufacturing of mattresses. Aspects include receiving a plurality of customer orders for mattresses, wherein each of the plurality of customer orders includes a due date and organizing the plurality of customer orders into production batches based on the due dates. Aspects also include analyzing a first production batch of the daily production schedule and responsively creating an optimized hour production batch and based on a determination that the optimized first production batch exceeds a performance threshold 1, dispatching the first hourly production batch to an automated manufacturing system for production. Based on a determination that the optimized first hour production batch does not exceed the performance threshold, aspects further include analyzing a second production batch and modifying the optimized first production batch and the second production batch to create an optimized second production batch.