US 12,242,255 B2
Method for tracking a component in a production line comprising a plurality of processing systems, and computing unit
Gerhard Ettengruber, Simbach (DE); Bernhard Glueck, Fuerstenfeldbruck (DE); and Stefan Werner, Regensburg (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/432,200
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/056676
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/216524, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 110 619.2 (DE), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0187808 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41875 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 2219/42337 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for tracking a component in a production line comprising a plurality of process systems, the method comprising:
at least one of processing or testing components by each of the plurality of process systems;
providing, by each of the plurality of process systems, a processing signal characterizing the at least one of the processing or the testing for a computing device,
tracking, by the computing device, the component through the production line along the plurality of process systems based on the processing signals received by the computing device,
receiving a signal from one of the plurality of process systems of the production line, wherein the signal is received at the computing device,
determining, by the computing device, the component that is at least one of processed or tested in the one process system, and
providing, by the computing device, at least one component information signal characterizing a component property of the determined component for the one process system, wherein
the tracking includes capturing a serial number of the component at an entrance of the production line, the at least one component information signal is sent to each of the plurality of process systems in the production line and includes the serial number, the plurality of process systems in the production line are configured to process the component without further capturing the serial number, so that after the capturing of the serial number at the entrance of the production line the tracking of the component is conducted by relying only on a course of movement of the component through the production line,
using the one process systems as a test system, determining a test result by testing the determined component, and
based on the received signal, storing the test result in a memory device of the test system in a manner assigned to the determined component characterized by the component information signal.