Patents by Inventor Jon Ray Matheus

Jon Ray Matheus has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Feed-forward control in event-based manufacturing systems
    Patent number: 7401728
    Abstract: Communication between machines in an event-based manufacturing system. In an event-based manufacturing system, material-specific data obtained for a material produced during a first manufacturing operation is used to govern a second manufacturing operation to decrease the likelihood of at least a delay event, a waste event, or poor quality of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jon Ray Matheus, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Flynn Matthew Tiffany, Roger Dale Yosten
  • User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing
    Patent number: 7380213
    Abstract: User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data stored in a database. The data includes automatically collected event-based production information records in a manufacturing system wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an event code, and a measure of cost or production loss associated with the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Walter Caswell Reade, Jose Andres Stambuk
  • Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing
    Patent number: 7357298
    Abstract: Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a method of tracking production information, a method of analyzing event-based production information to provide financial reports, a method of adapting an online production documentation system to provide financial report data, and a production documentation system. Also disclosed are computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing an event-based delay or waste record populated during manufacturing, and a method of automatically generating an alert and providing an associated financial report in a process for manufacturing a product associated with an event-based information system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Perry A. Bush, John Harland Hise, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Jose Andres Stambuk
  • Communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing
    Patent number: 7032816
    Abstract: Providing communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for communicating data relating to a material between machines during a process for feed-forward control. Also disclosed are an intelligent event-based manufacturing system including a process for converting a raw material to a product and a method of reducing the probability of waste, delay, or a quality defect in a process having process conditions for the manufacture of a product from a sequentially trackable raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jon Ray Matheus, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Flynn Matthew Tiffany, Roger Dale Yosten
  • Communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing
    Publication number: 20030155415
    Abstract: Providing communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for communicating data relating to a material between machines during a process for feed-forward control. Also disclosed are an intelligent event-based manufacturing system including a process for converting a raw material to a product and a method of reducing the probability of waste, delay, or a quality defect in a process having process conditions for the manufacture of a product from a sequentially trackable raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jon Ray Matheus, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reads, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Flynn Matthew Tiffany, Roger Dale Yosten
  • User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing
    Publication number: 20030150908
    Abstract: User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data stored in a database. The data include automatically collected event-based production information records in a manufacturing system wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an event code, and a measure of cost or production loss associated with the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Walter Caswell Reade, Jose Andres Stambuk
  • Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing
    Publication number: 20030154144
    Abstract: Integrating event-based production information with financial and purchasing systems in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a method of tracking production information, a method of analyzing event-based production information to provide financial reports, a method of adapting an online production documentation system to provide financial report data, and a production documentation system. Also disclosed are computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing an event-based delay or waste record populated during manufacturing, and a method of automatically generating an alert and providing an associated financial report in a process for manufacturing a product associated with an event-based information system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Perry A. Bush, John Harland Hise, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Jose Andres Stambuk