Food production management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11449041-B2
Application number	US-202016880927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2020
Priority date	May 23, 2019
Publication date	Sep 20, 2022
Grant date	Sep 20, 2022

Abstract

A food production management system that manages a food production process group having a plurality of production processes is disclosed. The food production management system includes a first acquisition unit and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires throughputs of each of the plurality of production processes. The output unit outputs first information. The first information includes information representing the throughputs of each of the plurality of production processes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A food production management system that manages a food production process group having a plurality of production processes, the food production management system comprising:
a controller configured to
acquire a processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes,
output first information, the first information including real-time information representing the processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes, the first information further including a first image in which the plurality of production processes are depicted with symbols respectively, and the symbols are connected with lines representing a sequential order in which an article processed by an upstream production process is sent to a next production process,
acquire association information relating to associations between the plurality of production processes, and
automatically generate the first image based on the association information.

2. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein the first information further includes information representing connections between the plurality of production processes, and/or branches of the plurality of production processes.

3. The food production management system according to claim 2 , wherein the first information is image information that displays nodes representing each of the plurality of production processes, links representing the connections between the plurality of production processes and/or the branches of the plurality of production processes, and the information representing the processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes.

4. The food production management system according to claim 3 , wherein
the plurality of production processes include a first production process, and
the first information displays, using different types of indicators, a case where a processing amount per unit time in the first production process is equal to or greater than a first reference value set for the first production process and a case where the processing amount per unit time in the first production process is smaller than the first reference value.

5. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein regarding at least part of the plurality of production processes, the processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes include a production amount and a reject amount as a non-conforming article in each of the plurality of production processes.

6. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to output, as second information, image information displaying in graph form the processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes.

7. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein the first information further includes information representing increasing/decreasing states of the processing amount per unit time in the plurality of production processes.

8. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing amount per unit time in each of the plurality of production processes are processed weights per unit time or processed numbers per unit time.

9. The food production management system according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of production processes include at least one of a material input process, a flavoring process, a weighing process, a packaging process, an inspection process, and a box packing process.

Assignees

• Ishida Seisakusho

Inventors

• Tarumoto Yoshinori
• Abe Youichirou
• Kawanishi Norio
• Fujita Yoshiki
• Nada taiga

Classifications

• G07C3/005

  during manufacturing process · CPC title

• G05B19/41835

  characterised by program execution · CPC title

• G06Q10/0639 Primary

  Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations · CPC title

• G06Q10/06316

  Sequencing of tasks or work · CPC title

• G06Q50/04 Primary

  Manufacturing · CPC title