Patents by Inventor Nicholas WILLISON

Nicholas WILLISON 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).

  • Patent number: 11790255
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of faults, determine a priority level for each fault by applying the extracted feature data to a predictive model, determine at least one high priority fault, and generate at least one operator alert based on the at least one high priority fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20230095827
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data and line production data, determine one or more production associations between the cell data and the line production data; evaluate the one or more production associations to identify one or more critical production associations; retrieve the cell data and the line production data associated with the one or more critical production associations; and train a predictive model with the retrieved cell data and the retrieved line production data to predict the production level of the manufacturing assembly line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20230063452
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating configuration changes on a machine in a manufacturing line are provided. The machine is controlled by a PLC that stores a plurality of parameters associated with the machine. The method involves operating one or more processors to: obtain, from the PLC, a plurality of first parameter values corresponding to the plurality of parameters stored at the PLC at a first time and a plurality of second parameter values corresponding to the plurality of parameters stored at the PLC at a second time; determine a plurality of parameter value differences; identify a plurality of configuration parameters from the plurality of parameters based on the plurality of parameter value differences, each configuration parameter corresponding to a user-manipulatable parameter associated with controlling the machine; and store a plurality of first configuration parameter values in association with a first timestamp corresponding to the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Patent number: 11514344
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of cell configurations, determine an efficiency score by applying the feature data to a predictive model generated for predicting a production level of the manufacturing assembly line, determine at least one target cell configuration from the cell configurations based on the efficiency score, and apply the at least one target cell configuration to at least one cell by implementing each target cell configuration to a corresponding cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Patent number: 11449778
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data and line production data, determine one or more production associations between the cell data and the line production data; evaluate the one or more production associations to identify one or more critical production associations; retrieve the cell data and the line production data associated with the one or more critical production associations; and train a predictive model with the retrieved cell data and the retrieved line production data to predict the production level of the manufacturing assembly line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20210304036
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data and line production data, determine one or more production associations between the cell data and the line production data; evaluate the one or more production associations to identify one or more critical production associations; retrieve the cell data and the line production data associated with the one or more critical production associations; and train a predictive model with the retrieved cell data and the retrieved line production data to predict the production level of the manufacturing assembly line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20210302278
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of faults, determine a priority level for each fault by applying the extracted feature data to a predictive model, determine at least one high priority fault, and generate at least one operator alert based on the at least one high priority fault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20210302944
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of cell configurations, determine an efficiency score by applying the feature data to a predictive model generated for predicting a production level of the manufacturing assembly line, determine at least one target cell configuration from the cell configurations based on the efficiency score, and apply the at least one target cell configuration to at least one cell by implementing each target cell configuration to a corresponding cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Willison, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh, Masoud Kheradmandi, Bo Yuan Chang, Stephen Bacso, Yang Wang, Nick Foisy, Stanley Kleinikkink
  • Publication number: 20200089205
    Abstract: A system and method for managing automation stations having one or more pieces of automation equipment in an automation environment. The system includes: a plurality of data collection devices configured to collect data related to a plurality of actuations performed by at least one automation station based on data collection criteria; and at least one processing module in communication with the plurality of data collection devices and configured to aggregate and analyze the collected data to detect one or more statistical anomalies, wherein the processing module determines an adjustment to the at least one automation station or the automation environment to address the statistical anomaly and implements the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stanley KLEINIKKINK, Kevin BORONKA, Nicholas WILLISON