APS planning method and system for project type ERP system
阅读说明：本技术 面向项目型erp系统的aps规划方法及系统 (APS planning method and system for project type ERP system ) 是由 龚兰兰 凌兴宏 黄哲远 郝智峰 余永胜 于 2021-07-26 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种面向项目型ERP系统的APS规划方法及系统,包括以下步骤：获取临时物料列表；计算临时物料列表中的临时物料的层级,所述临时物料的层级分为0,1,2,3...,n级；获取0级物料的物资时间跟踪表；依次计算1级物料-n级物料的制造订单的临时完工日期,根据物料制造订单的临时完工日期,计算该级物料的工单的工差及物料时间跟踪表。其将企业的资源限制与企业目标纳入考虑,使得生产规划与排程系统的规划结果达到最佳化。(The invention relates to an APS planning method and system for a project type ERP system, which comprises the following steps: acquiring a temporary material list; calculating the levels of temporary materials in a temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3. Acquiring a material time tracking table of a 0-level material; and sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material, and calculating the work difference of the work order of the level material and a material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material. The method takes the resource limit and the enterprise target of the enterprise into consideration, so that the planning result of the production planning and scheduling system is optimized.)
1. An APS planning method facing a project type ERP system is characterized by comprising the following steps:
acquiring a temporary material list;
calculating the levels of temporary materials in a temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3, n levels, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is;
acquiring a material time tracking table of a 0-level material;
and sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material, and calculating the work difference of the work order of the level material and a material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material.
2. The APS planning method for the project-based ERP system according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining the temporary material list comprises:
and taking all materials involved in sales to-be-delivered goods, purchase to-be-received goods, production to-be-put in storage, production to-be-received materials and inventory business documents into a calculation range to form a temporary material list.
3. The APS planning method for project-based ERP system according to claim 1, wherein the calculating the level of the temporary material in the temporary material list comprises:
obtaining a 0-grade material, wherein the 0-grade material refers to a material which is not produced to be put in storage and is not produced to be taken;
obtaining a 1,2,3.. n grade material, specifically comprising:
all manufacturing orders are brought into a calculation range, a dynamic BOM level is established according to the feeding plan of the manufacturing orders, and material low-level codes are calculated and are divided into 1,2,3.
4. The APS planning method for the project-type ERP system according to claim 3,
the grade 1 material comprises a material which belongs to production and warehousing materials and does not belong to any production material class;
the 2-level materials comprise materials which belong to production material receiving types, the parent-level materials are only one level, and feeding sub-pieces of the parent-level materials which belong to other manufacturing orders do not exist;
the 3-level material comprises a material which belongs to the production material receiving class, and the parent-level material belongs to a material feeding sub-piece of a certain manufacturing order.
5. The APS planning method for the project-type ERP system according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the material time tracking table of the 0-level material comprises:
taking the date of receiving and dispatching the goods as a main line, storing goods in a warehouse as the initial amount of the earliest date, adding the initial amount to the quantity to be received and subtracting the quantity to be dispatched to obtain the final balance of the current date;
and (4) counting the balance at the end of the period of the current date into the initial amount of the next date, and so on to obtain a material time tracking table of the 0-level material.
6. The APS planning method for the project ERP system according to claim 1, wherein the calculating the work difference of the work order of the level material according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order comprises:
calculating the longest path between the tail node and all other nodes by taking the tail road work order as the tail node according to the temporary list of the adjacent nodes of the work order;
based on the longest path between the last node and all other nodes, the latest completion date of the work order is discharged according to the temporary completion date and the working calendar;
calculating the latest start date according to the remaining working hours and the working calendar by using the latest completion date;
calculating the earliest completion date of the work order by taking the current time point as a starting point according to the remaining working hours and the positive row of the working calendar;
and calculating the tolerance according to the latest completion date and the earliest completion date.
7. The APS planning method oriented to the project-type ERP system according to claim 1, wherein the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material is calculated in sequence, and according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material, the work difference of the work order of the level material and the material time tracking table are calculated, and when the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 2 material is calculated, the following operations are performed:
acquiring a date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 material;
and (4) calculating the quantity of the materials to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials according to the date to be delivered in the forecast ex-warehouse, and obtaining the date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials.
8. The APS planning method for the project ERP system according to claim 7, wherein the obtaining of the date of production and to-be-shipped of the level 2 material comprises:
if the work order is in a non-operation state, comparing the planned operation date with a small value according to the latest operation date of the work order, and setting the production to-be-delivered date of the material feeding material as a small value date;
if the work order is started, setting the date of production and delivery of the material fed by the work order as the start date, wherein the start date refers to the date of production start of the work order;
if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered, and if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered.
9. An APS planning system oriented to a project type ERP system, comprising:
the list acquisition module is used for acquiring a temporary material list;
the level calculation module is used for calculating the levels of the temporary materials in the temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3, n levels, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is;
the tracking table acquisition module is used for acquiring a material time tracking table of the 0-level material, sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the 1-level material-n-level material, and calculating the work order difference of the level material and the material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order.
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of production scheduling planning, in particular to an APS planning method and system for a project-type ERP system.
Background
Traditionally, when planning a production planning and scheduling system based on MRP scheduling logic, enterprise resource limitations and enterprise goals are not taken into consideration, wherein enterprise resource limitations may refer to materials and capacity, tools, equipment, and processing operations; and enterprise goals may refer to lowest production cost and shortest lead time.
Because the resource limitations and the enterprise goals of the enterprise are not taken into consideration, the planning results of the MRP based production planning and scheduling system are not optimized, or even feasible.
Disclosure of Invention
Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome the technical defect that the planning result of the production planning and scheduling system cannot be optimized or even infeasible because the resource limitation and the enterprise target of the enterprise are not taken into consideration in the prior art.
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides an APS planning method for a project-type ERP system, which comprises the following steps:
acquiring a temporary material list;
calculating the levels of temporary materials in a temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3, n levels, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is;
acquiring a material time tracking table of a 0-level material;
and sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material, and calculating the work difference of the work order of the level material and a material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material.
Preferably, the obtaining of the temporary material list includes:
and taking all materials involved in sales to-be-delivered goods, purchase to-be-received goods, production to-be-put in storage, production to-be-received materials and inventory business documents into a calculation range to form a temporary material list.
Preferably, the calculating the hierarchy of the temporary materials in the temporary material list includes:
obtaining a 0-grade material, wherein the 0-grade material refers to a material which is not produced to be put in storage and is not produced to be taken;
obtaining a 1,2,3.. n grade material, specifically comprising:
all manufacturing orders are brought into a calculation range, a dynamic BOM level is established according to the feeding plan of the manufacturing orders, and material low-level codes are calculated and are divided into 1,2,3.
Preferably, the grade 1 materials comprise materials which belong to production and warehousing and do not belong to any production material-receiving materials;
the 2-level materials comprise materials which belong to production material receiving types, the parent-level materials are only one level, and feeding sub-pieces of the parent-level materials which belong to other manufacturing orders do not exist;
the 3-level material comprises a material which belongs to the production material receiving class, and the parent-level material belongs to a material feeding sub-piece of a certain manufacturing order.
Preferably, the acquiring a material time tracking table of the grade 0 material includes:
taking the date of receiving and dispatching the goods as a main line, storing goods in a warehouse as the initial amount of the earliest date, adding the initial amount to the quantity to be received and subtracting the quantity to be dispatched to obtain the final balance of the current date;
and (4) counting the balance at the end of the period of the current date into the initial amount of the next date, and so on to obtain a material time tracking table of the 0-level material.
Preferably, the calculating the work difference of the work order of the material level according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order includes:
calculating the longest path between the tail node and all other nodes by taking the tail road work order as the tail node according to the temporary list of the adjacent nodes of the work order;
based on the longest path between the last node and all other nodes, the latest completion date of the work order is discharged according to the temporary completion date and the working calendar;
calculating the latest start date according to the remaining working hours and the working calendar by using the latest completion date;
calculating the earliest completion date of the work order by taking the current time point as a starting point according to the remaining working hours and the positive row of the working calendar;
and calculating the tolerance according to the latest completion date and the earliest completion date.
Preferably, the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material is sequentially calculated, the work difference of the work order of the level material and the material time tracking table are calculated according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material, and when the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 2 material is calculated, the following operations are performed:
acquiring a date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 material;
and (4) calculating the quantity of the materials to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials according to the date to be delivered in the forecast ex-warehouse, and obtaining the date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials.
Preferably, the acquiring the date to be shipped for the production of the level 2 material includes:
if the work order is in a non-operation state, comparing the planned operation date with a small value according to the latest operation date of the work order, and setting the production to-be-delivered date of the material feeding material as a small value date;
if the work order is started, setting the date of production and delivery of the material fed by the work order as the start date, wherein the start date refers to the date of production start of the work order;
if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered, and if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered.
The invention discloses an APS planning system facing a project type ERP system, which comprises:
the list acquisition module is used for acquiring a temporary material list;
the level calculation module is used for calculating the levels of the temporary materials in the temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3, n levels, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is;
the tracking table acquisition module is used for acquiring a material time tracking table of the 0-level material, sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the 1-level material-n-level material, and calculating the work order difference of the level material and the material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order.
Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the invention has the following advantages:
1. the invention takes the resource limit and the enterprise target of the enterprise into consideration, so that the planning result of the production planning and scheduling system is optimized.
2. The invention calculates the construction period deviation (progress deviation) of the work order, and the scheduling is simpler by the target.
3. The traditional scheduling needs to set a plurality of parameters, and the system can carry out intelligent scheduling without human intervention.
4. The invention has the advantages of calculating the work difference of each work order, being visual, convenient for scheduling and being practical and feasible.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further described below in conjunction with the following figures and specific examples so that those skilled in the art may better understand the present invention and practice it, but the examples are not intended to limit the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1, the invention discloses an APS planning method for a project-type ERP system, comprising the following steps:
step one, obtaining a temporary material list, comprising:
and taking all materials involved in sales to-be-delivered goods, purchase to-be-received goods, production to-be-put in storage, production to-be-received materials and inventory business documents into a calculation range to form a temporary material list.
And step two, calculating the levels of the temporary materials in the temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into levels 0,1,2,3, n, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is.
Wherein the calculating the level of the temporary material in the temporary material list comprises:
obtaining a 0-grade material, wherein the 0-grade material refers to a material which is not produced to be put in storage and is not produced to be taken;
obtaining a 1,2,3.. n grade material, specifically comprising:
all manufacturing orders are brought into a calculation range, a dynamic BOM level is established according to the feeding plan of the manufacturing orders, and material low-level codes are calculated and are divided into 1,2,3.
Wherein, the grade 1 materials comprise materials which belong to production and warehousing and do not belong to any production material-receiving materials;
the 2-level materials comprise materials which belong to production material receiving types, the parent-level materials are only one level, and feeding sub-pieces of the parent-level materials which belong to other manufacturing orders do not exist;
the 3-level material comprises a material which belongs to the production material receiving class, and the parent-level material belongs to a material feeding sub-piece of a certain manufacturing order.
And step three, acquiring a material time tracking table of the 0-level material.
The material time tracking table for obtaining the 0-level material comprises the following steps:
taking the date of receiving and dispatching the goods as a main line, storing goods in a warehouse as the initial amount of the earliest date, adding the initial amount to the quantity to be received and subtracting the quantity to be dispatched to obtain the final balance of the current date;
and (4) counting the balance at the end of the period of the current date into the initial amount of the next date, and so on to obtain a material time tracking table of the 0-level material.
And step four, calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the level 1 material-level n material in sequence, and calculating the work difference of the work order of the level material and a material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the material.
Wherein, according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order, calculating the work difference of the work order of the material, comprising:
calculating the longest path between the tail node and all other nodes by taking the tail road work order as the tail node according to the temporary list of the adjacent nodes of the work order;
based on the longest path between the last node and all other nodes, the latest completion date of the work order is discharged according to the temporary completion date and the working calendar;
calculating the latest start date according to the remaining working hours and the working calendar by using the latest completion date;
calculating the earliest completion date of the work order by taking the current time point as a starting point according to the remaining working hours and the positive row of the working calendar;
and calculating the tolerance according to the latest completion date and the earliest completion date.
When calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the 2-level material, the following operations are carried out:
acquiring a date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 material;
and (4) calculating the quantity of the materials to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials according to the date to be delivered in the forecast ex-warehouse, and obtaining the date to be delivered in the production of the level 2 materials.
Wherein the obtaining of the date of production to be shipped for the level 2 material comprises:
if the work order is in a non-operation state, comparing the planned operation date with a small value according to the latest operation date of the work order, and setting the production to-be-delivered date of the material feeding material as a small value date;
if the work order is started, setting the date of production and delivery of the material fed by the work order as the start date, wherein the start date refers to the date of production start of the work order;
if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered, and if the work order requires material picking, the time of material picking is the date of production to be delivered.
The invention discloses an APS planning system facing a project type ERP system, which comprises:
the list acquisition module is used for acquiring a temporary material list;
the level calculation module is used for calculating the levels of the temporary materials in the temporary material list, wherein the levels of the temporary materials are divided into 0,1,2,3, n levels, and the higher the level of the temporary material is, the higher the priority of the temporary material corresponding to the level is;
the tracking table acquisition module is used for acquiring a material time tracking table of the 0-level material, sequentially calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order of the 1-level material-n-level material, and calculating the work order difference of the level material and the material time tracking table according to the temporary completion date of the material manufacturing order.
The technical solution of the present invention is further described below with reference to specific examples.
The first step is as follows:
all materials related to business documents such as sales to-be-delivered goods, purchase to-be-received goods, production to-be-put in storage, production to-be-received materials, inventory stock and the like are brought into a calculation range to form a temporary material list;
description of the drawings: the purpose here is to narrow the material calculation scope, reject the irrelevant supplies outside, can reduce the number of calculations, promote the calculation speed;
the second step is that: and calculating a temporary material level, and dividing the temporary material level into 0,1,2 and 3 … levels. In the temporary material list, the priority of the material which is not produced to be put in storage or produced to be taken is the highest and is set as 0 level;
description of the drawings: materials are brought into calculation, a priority calculation problem exists in the materials, the independent requirement is 0 level, and the related requirement can be calculated into 1,2 and 3 … levels according to different levels; therefore, the calculation result is accurate and unique, and the material data calculated preferentially cannot be influenced by the data calculated by the subsequent materials.
The third step:
all manufacturing orders are brought into a calculation range, a dynamic BOM level is created according to a feeding plan of the manufacturing orders, a material low level code is calculated and divided into 1,2,3.
The level 1 material represents that the material belongs to the material for production and warehousing and does not belong to any material for production and material taking; the 2-level material represents that the material belongs to production material receiving materials, the parent material is only one level, and the feeding sub-piece of the parent material belonging to other manufacturing orders does not exist;
the 3-level material represents that the material belongs to production material receiving class materials, the parent-level material belongs to the feeding sub-piece of a certain manufacturing order, but the warehousing material of the manufacturing order does not belong to the feeding sub-piece of any manufacturing order, and so on in 4,5 and 6 … … levels.
The fourth step:
and completing the calculation of the priority of all the materials in the temporary material list, and dividing the priority into 0,1,2 and 3 … levels.
Description of the drawings: the independent requirement is 0 level, the related requirements are obtained by the stacking relation of BOM, and the low-level code is calculated (the description of the hundredth low-level code is inquired); for reasons why dynamic BOM hierarchies are created rather than using BOMs in PLMs, it is considered primarily that the actual charging plan for production may not be consistent with the BOMs in the PLMs, and in order to better conform to the actual charging, the charging plan for the manufacturing order is calculated as a dynamic BOM sub-material.
The fifth step:
the 0-level material does not relate to production, the detailed receiving and dispatching date of selling to-be-dispatched goods, purchasing to-be-received goods and the like is taken as a main line, the material is stored in a warehouse as the initial amount of the earliest date, the amount to be dispatched is added, the amount to be dispatched is subtracted and is equal to the final balance of the date, the balance is counted into the initial amount of the next date, and the like, so that the material time tracking table of the 0-level material is obtained.
Description of the drawings: the related information such as the beginning number, the end number, the expected income and the like of each date is mainly calculated. When the number of end-of-period is negative, the time to be counted needs to be dynamically adjusted, and an APS dynamic completion date (also called a temporary completion date) is calculated for the manufacturing order.
Description of the drawings:
the information may be created in a format such as an expected balance expected at the beginning of the date.
Description of the drawings: the following steps are cyclic calculation, namely, a manufacturing order of the material with high priority is calculated, and then a manufacturing order of the material with low priority is calculated. The material of grade 0 has the highest priority, and the material of grade 1 has the lowest priority. . .
And a sixth step:
a grade 1 material, exemplified by material a; and repeating the steps for the rest materials, and calculating the temporary completion date of the manufacturing order.
Description of the drawings:
the material A only has a manufacturing order, the manufacturing order generates a work order, and the longest path working hour of the manufacturing order is calculated;
if the number of the manufacturing order work orders is 1,2 … n, if a certain work order is in a state of completion, inspection or the like, the rest work hours are default to 0; if a certain work order is in production waiting or in production progress, the remaining working hours of the work order are comprehensive calculated values such as the number of the work orders to be produced, the produced progress, the preparation working hours, the processing batches, the resource capacity and the like, and the remaining working hours of the work order are calculated; and finally, calculating the remaining working hours of all the work orders of the manufacturing order. And creating all work order adjacent node temporary tables according to the work order processing paths, calculating the longest processing path of the manufacturing order, and obtaining the key working hours (longest path working hours) of the manufacturing order.
The priority of a manufacturing order (generated work order) of the material A is higher than that of purchasing goods to be received, and the manufacturing order preferentially meets the demand of selling goods to be sent;
a, a plurality of manufacturing orders (generated work orders) of materials, wherein the minimum priority of key working hours is highest; if the key working hours are consistent, the earlier the creation date is, the higher the priority is;
comparing the priority of the manufacturing order (without generating a work order) of the material A, wherein the expected completion date of the manufacturing order is the expected warehousing date of the material;
a, the material is purchased in a delayed period and is to be received, and the expected warehousing date is set as the APS operation current date;
using detailed receiving and dispatching dates of materials A such as sales to-be-delivered goods and purchase to-be-received goods as a main line, storing materials in a warehouse as an initial quantity of an earliest date, adding the purchase to-be-received goods and subtracting the quantity of the sales to-be-delivered goods, setting a manufacturing order temporary completion date with the highest priority of the materials A as the date if the quantity of an end balance of the date is less than 0, using the quantity as a predicted input quantity, recalculating the balance until the balance is more than or equal to 0, and converting the end balance into the initial quantity of the next date;
if the material manufacturing order A participates in adjustment, all temporary completion dates are calculated;
if the material A does not participate in the adjusted manufacturing order, the estimated warehousing date of the material A is the estimated completion date of the manufacturing order;
the expected warehousing date of the manufacturing order (without generating the work order) of the material A is the expected completion date of the manufacturing order.
Description of the drawings: the sixth step is to calculate the temporary completion date of each manufacturing order, which manufacturing order has priority and satisfies the requirements of the previous date first.
The seventh step:
the tolerance of the work order is calculated according to the temporary completion date of the material A manufacturing order (the same applies to the predicted completion date of the manufacturing order which does not participate in the adjustment):
calculating the longest path between the tail node and all other nodes by taking the tail road work order as the tail node according to the temporary list of the adjacent nodes of the work order, and discharging the latest completion date of the work order according to the temporary completion date and the working calendar; calculating the latest work completion date according to the remaining working hours and the working calendar by using the latest work completion date; calculating the earliest completion date of the work order by taking the current time point as a starting point according to the remaining working hours and the positive row of the working calendar; calculating tolerance according to the latest completion date and the earliest completion date;
description of the drawings: after the temporary completion date of a certain manufacturing order is determined, calculating a work order in the manufacturing order to obtain tolerance data, and referring to the sixth step for calculating parameters, wherein the sixth step mainly calculates the longest processing path to obtain the priority of the manufacturing order, and the completion date of each process needs to be calculated.
Eighth step:
calculating the date of production and delivery of the material to be charged of the manufacturing order A:
if the work order is in a non-operation state, comparing the planned operation date with a small value according to the latest operation date of the work order, and setting the production to-be-delivered date of the material to be fed as a small value date;
if the work order is started, the date of production and delivery of the material fed by the work order is set as the start date;
description of the drawings: and calculating the earliest starting date of the work order according to the seventh step, wherein the date is the planned feeding date of the work order to obtain the required date of the fed materials.
The ninth step:
after all the level 1 materials are calculated, starting to calculate the level 2 materials; and (3) because the level 2 materials are the material feeding materials of a certain manufacturing order, the date of the materials to be delivered during production is calculated in the eighth step, the number of the materials to be delivered during production is calculated according to the date and the predicted column output number, the sixth step, the seventh step and the eighth step are circulated until the date of the materials to be delivered during production of the level 2 materials is calculated, and the circulation is carried out until all the materials are calculated, so that the tolerance of the work order and the material time tracking table of the materials are obtained.
Description of the drawings: and according to the eighth step, obtaining a date demand table of the materials with the low priority, then performing priority matching on the manufacturing order, and performing circular calculation. (after the level 0 material is calculated, the date demand table of the level 1 material is calculated, after the level 1 material is calculated, the date demand table of the level 2 material is calculated, and the like).
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications therefrom are within the scope of the invention.