US 12,073,355 B2
Method for tracking components
Juergen Hoffmann, Holzkirchen (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/293,654
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/078219
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/099059, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 128 498.5 (DE), filed on Nov. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0012676 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06V 10/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06F 16/288 (2019.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06V 10/255 (2022.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for tracking components, comprising the steps of:
separating a metal strip to form individual metal blanks;
providing each of the individual metal blanks with a respective individual part number;
recording the individual part numbers in an information technology system;
capturing the individual metal blanks by a capturing device by reading the individual part numbers before the individual metal blanks run through a press device;
running the individual metal blanks through the press device, wherein the individual metal blanks are shaped by a shaping press of the press device to form respective individual components and outputting the individual components on an outflow conveyor belt;
removing the individual components from the outflow conveyor belt and arranging each of the individual components in one of a plurality of containers wherein each of the plurality of containers has a respective container identifier;
capturing a movement of the individual components from being output on the outflow conveyor belt until being arranged in the one of the plurality of containers by a camera system;
creating a link between respective individual part numbers and respective individual container identifiers; and
storing the link in a database.