Container production management system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11769157-B2
Application number	US-201816643777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2018
Priority date	Sep 7, 2017
Publication date	Sep 26, 2023
Grant date	Sep 26, 2023

Abstract

A container production management system including: an adding device ( 1 ) which adds object identification code (D) indicating an object identifier (ID); a processing process reader ( 2 a, 2 b ) which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code (D) added to the objects to be processed; an inspection process reader ( 3 ) which reads the object code (D) added to the object to be inspected in an inspection process; and a computing unit ( 4 ) which creates a database ( 5 ) in which the object identifier (ID), information on at least one processing process, and inspection results in the inspection process are linked with each other, wherein the adding device ( 1 ) adds the object identification code (D) to the material member for each container, or to a portion to be the material member among raw materials (S) before the individual material member is separated therefrom.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A container production management system for managing a container production process, comprising:
an adding device which adds an object identification code indicating an object identifier, which is information for identifying an object ranging from a material member for each container to the container, to each of the objects;
a processing process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be processed in at least one processing process in which the object added with the object identification code is processed;
an inspection process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be inspected in at least one inspection process in which the object added with the object identification code is inspected; and
a processing circuitry which creates a database in which the object identifier indicated by the object identification code, information on at least one processing process, and inspection results in at least one inspection process are linked with each other,
wherein the adding device adds the object identification code to the material member for each container, or to a portion to be the material member among raw materials before the material member is separated therefrom,
wherein the container production process is a resin container production process in which a resin container is produced as the container,
wherein the adding device adds the object identification code to part of a region from an opening of a preform as the material member to a preform-shape remaining portion which is not deformed in a post-processing and immediately below a neck ring.

2. The container production management system according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the objects is processed in any one of a plurality of processing lanes in at least one processing process,
the processing process reader reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects, in each of the plurality of processing lanes,
information on at least one processing process includes a lane identifier assigned to each of the plurality of processing lanes, and
the processing circuitry links, in the database, the object identifier of each of the objects with the lane identifier assigned to the lane in which each of the objects is processed.

3. The container production management system according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the objects is processed in any one of a plurality of processors, or is conveyed by any one of a plurality of conveyers in at least one processing process,
the processing process reader reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects, in each of the plurality of processors or in each of the plurality of conveyers,
information on at least one processing process includes a device identifier assigned to each of the plurality of processors or each of the plurality of conveyers, and
the processing circuitry links, in the database, the object identifier of each of the objects with the device identifier assigned to the processor in which each of the objects is processed, or the conveyer by which each of the objects is conveyed.

4. The container production management system according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the preforms is molded by any one of a plurality of preform molds in a preform molding process,
a mold identifier is assigned to each of the plurality of preform molds, and
the processing circuitry further links, in the database, the object identifier of each of the preforms with the mold identifier assigned to the preform mold with which each of the preforms is molded.

5. A container production management system for managing a container production process, comprising:
an adding device which adds an object identification code indicating an object identifier, which is information for identifying an object ranging from a material member for each container to the container, to each of the objects;
a processing process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be processed in at least one processing process in which the object added with the object identification code is processed;
an inspection process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be inspected in at least one inspection process in which the object added with the object identification code is inspected; and
a processing circuitry which creates a database in which the object identifier indicated by the object identification code, information on at least one processing process, and inspection results in at least one inspection process are linked with each other,
wherein the adding device adds the object identification code to the material member for each container, or to a portion to be the material member among raw materials before the material member is separated therefrom,
wherein the container production process is a can body production process in which a can body is produced as the container,
wherein the adding device adds the object identification code to the material member blanked from a sheet metal as the raw material, or to each of portions to be blanked as the material member among the sheet metals.

6. The container production management system according to claim 5 , wherein
the can body is a two piece can, and
the adding device adds the object identification code to a portion to be a bottom part of the two piece can among the material members, or to each of portions to be blanked to be the bottom part of the two piece can among the sheet metals.

7. The container production management system according to claim 5 , wherein
each of the material members is blanked from the sheet metal by any one of a plurality of blankers in a process in which the material member is blanked from the sheet metal,
a blanker identifier is assigned to each of the plurality of blankers, and
the processing circuitry further links, in the database, the object identifier of each of the objects with the blanker identifier assigned to the blanker with which the material member of each of the objects is blanked.

8. A container production management system for managing a container production process, comprising:
an adding device which adds an object identification code indicating an object identifier, which is information for identifying an object ranging from a material member for each container to the container, to each of the objects;
a processing process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be processed in at least one processing process in which the object added with the object identification code is processed;
an inspection process reader which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code added to each of the objects to be inspected in at least one inspection process in which the object added with the object identification code is inspected; and
a processing circuitry which creates a database in which the object identifier indicated by the object identification code, information on at least one processing process, and inspection results in at least one inspection process-are linked with each other,
wherein the adding device adds the object identification code to the material member for each container, or to a portion to be the material member among raw materials before the material member is separated therefrom,
wherein the container production process is a pouch production process in which a pouch

Assignees

• Toyo Seikan Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakayama Kazuhiko
• Tochigi Takayuki
• Miura Shinobu

Classifications

• G06Q30/018 Primary

  Certifying business or products · CPC title

• B65B5/02

  Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles · CPC title

• B65B57/10

  responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged · CPC title

• G05B19/4183 Primary

  characterised by data acquisition, e.g. workpiece identification · CPC title

• G06Q50/04

  Manufacturing · CPC title