Management system and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10860004-B2
Application number	US-201615751464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2016
Priority date	Dec 1, 2015
Publication date	Dec 8, 2020
Grant date	Dec 8, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a management system for performing quality management on manufacturing equipment. A management system that includes: an acquisition component that acquires state information for manufacturing equipment that is subject to management; a determination component that, on the basis of the acquired state information, determines whether an event has occurred; a display component that displays both an image that schematically or realistically represents a manufacturing line included in the manufacturing equipment and, separated into the four perspectives Machine, Man, Material, and Method, indexes that indicate the likelihood that there is a factor that caused an event; and an output component that, when a specific event has occurred, outputs, in response to a user selection, analysis results for each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives, the analysis results indicating a likelihood of having caused the specific event that occurred.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management system for performing quality management of manufacturing equipment, comprising:
a processor configured to execute:
an acquisition component which acquires state information of manufacturing equipment that is a management target;
a determination component which determines whether an event has occurred on the basis of the acquired state information;
an analysis component which generates an analysis results indicating a likelihood of occurrence of the event being caused by each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives;
a display component which displays indexes indicating likelihoods of presence of factors of four perspectives comprising Machine, Man, Material and Method having caused occurrence of the event along with an image that schematically or realistically represents a manufacturing line included in the manufacturing equipment; and
an output component which, when a specific event has occurred, outputs the analysis results indicating a likelihood of occurrence of the specific event being caused by each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives in response to user selection;
wherein the display component displays, in a form of drill-down or drill-up, a first display screen that displays operating states of one or more manufacturing lines, a second display screen that displays one or more processes comprised in a selected manufacturing line in the first display screen and a third display screen that displays an operating state of a selected process in the second display screen,
the operating state displayed in the third display screen comprises one or more events that occurred in corresponding processes, and
the output component accepts the user selection in the third display screen to select one or more events and outputs the analysis results of the selected one or more events, the third display displays the likelihood of occurrence of the specific event being caused by each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives in response to the user selection.

2. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the output component collectively displays other factors related to a factor estimated to have caused occurrence of the specific event.

3. The management system according to claim 2 , wherein the specific event includes suspension of the manufacturing line, and occurrence of an abnormality in an operation of the manufacturing line.

4. The management system according to claim 3 , wherein the display component displays the specific event that has occurred in association with a portion of a target device constituting the manufacturing line.

5. The management system according to claim 4 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

6. The management system according to claim 3 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

7. The management system according to claim 2 , wherein the display component displays the specific event that has occurred in association with a portion of a target device constituting the manufacturing line.

8. The management system according to claim 7 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

9. The management system according to claim 2 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

10. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the specific event includes suspension of the manufacturing line, and occurrence of an abnormality in an operation of the manufacturing line.

11. The management system according to claim 10 , wherein the display component displays the specific event that has occurred in association with a portion of a target device constituting the manufacturing line.

12. The management system according to claim 11 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

13. The management system according to claim 10 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

14. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the display component displays the specific event that has occurred in association with a portion of a target device constituting the manufacturing line.

15. The management system according to claim 14 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

16. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the display component displays combinations of images that represent respective manufacturing lines and indexes for the respective four perspectives with respect to each of the manufacturing lines side by side.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising a management program for performing quality management of manufacturing equipment, the management program causing a computer to function as:
an acquisition component which acquires state information of manufacturing equipment that is a management target;
a determination component which determines whether an event has occurred on the basis of the acquired state information;
an analysis component which generates an analysis results indicating a likelihood of occurrence of the event being caused by each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives;
a display component which displays indexes indicating likelihoods of presence of factors of four perspectives comprising Machine, Man, Material and Method having caused occurrence of the event along with an image that schematically or realistically represents a manufacturing line included in the manufacturing equipment; and
an output component which, when a specific event has occurred, outputs the analysis results indicating a likelihood of occurrence of the specific event being caused by each of one or more factors belonging to each of the four perspectives in response to user selection,
wherein the display component displays, in a form of drill-down or drill-up, a first display screen that displays operating states of one or more manufacturing lines, a second display screen that displays one or more processes comprised in a selected manufacturing line in the first display screen and a third display screen that displays an operating state of a selected process in the second display screen,
the operating state displayed in the third display screen comprises one or more events that occurred in corresponding processes, and
the output component accepts the user selection in the third display screen to select one or more events and outputs the analysis results of the selected one or more

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Oka Minoru

Classifications

• G05B19/41875 Primary

  characterised by quality surveillance of production · CPC title

• G05B2219/32187

  Correlation between controlling parameters for influence on quality parameters · CPC title

• Y02P90/02

  Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] · CPC title

• G05B19/418

  Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] · CPC title

• G05B19/41835 Primary

  characterised by program execution · CPC title