Method of production, apparatus and system

摘要

There is provided a method of regulating the formulation of a multi-component product comprising a product attribute profile, the method comprising providing a first and second component of the product, each component having a component attribute profile; supplying to a product formulation zone the first component and the second component in a desired ratio and combining the first and second components together to provide the product or a precursor thereof to yield a target product attribute profile; responsive to a change or predicted change in at least one component attribute profile, supplying information concerning the attribute change to a data processing apparatus and calculating with respect to that change an adjustment in the ratio to reduce the deviation of one or more attributes of the product attribute profile from the target product attribute profile. A production system is also provided.

主权项

1. A method of modeling mass production of a multi-component product, said method comprising:
representing, by a computing system, the multi-component product to be mass produced by data values indicative of a physical attribute profile of the multi-component product; representing, by the computing system, first and second components of the multi-component product by data values indicative of respective physical attributes of the first and second components; and deriving, by the computing system, a combinatorial relationship between respective data values of the physical attributes of the first and second component to yield a combined attribute profile within predetermined limits of data values of the multi-component product attribute profile to be mass produced; whereby the first and second component are blended together according to the derived combined attribute profile to mass produce the multi-component product.