US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Jan. 20 for "Process model automatic generation system and process model automatic generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,014, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Process model automatic generation system and process model automatic generation method" was invented by Riku Kawamura (Tokyo), Hitoshi Ishida (Tokyo), Takashi Amano (Tokyo), Takehiro Hagiwara (Tokyo) and Hiroki Miyamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production system between processes is automatically determined using work performance data acquired at a production site, and a process model in which a flow shop and a job shop are mixed is automatically generated. A process model automatic generation system 210 reads work performance data from work performance da...