Manufacturing process management support device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9971345-B2
Application number	US-201214400740-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 15, 2012
Priority date	Nov 15, 2012
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

There is a provided manufacturing process management support device that has an input means for inputting information indicative of the fact that work related to a manufacturing process is performed, and is capable of increasing the reliability of result information. A handy terminal 10 is used to input relevant information at the start of work for adjusting a machine that processes a processing target, at the completion of such adjustment work, and at the completion of processing work. The results of these inputs are supplied to a support tool execution server 50 through a factory result collection PC 20 and a progress server 30 . The support tool execution server 50 calculates the percentage of inputs actually made and causes a display 52 to display the calculated percentage, thereby making it viewable by factory workers.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A manufacturing process management support device comprising:
an input device that inputs information indicative of the fact that work related to a manufacturing process is performed;
an acquisition processor that acquires an input result of the input device;
a determination processor that determines in accordance with the input result acquired by the acquisition processor whether or not an input to the input device is made in a predicted manner; and
a notification device that notifies outside of a determination result produced by the determination processor,
wherein the notification device notifies the outside of information about a computation result produced by a collection processing processor as a determination result produced by the determination processor,
wherein the determination processor produces the determination result by inputting the input results concerning individual inputs of different types, the inputs being made to the input device at timings close to each other in accordance with the manufacturing process,
wherein the inputs of different types made at timings close to each other include an input to identify actual time concerning a pair of pieces of work, the pair of pieces of work being processing work that is performed to process a processing target and adjustment work that is performed before the processing work to adjust a member used to process the processing target, and
wherein the determination processor determines in a binary manner whether or not individual inputs to be made to the input device in accordance with the inputs of different types are actually made.

2. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 1 , wherein an input of the determination processor includes an input result concerning the start of the adjustment work, an input result concerning the completion of the adjustment work, and an input result concerning the completion of the processing work.

3. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 2 , wherein the determination processor determines, in accordance with the relationship between the input results concerning the individual inputs of different types, whether or not inputs concerning a plurality of pieces of work performed at timings close to each other are made in a predicted manner.

4. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 3 , wherein the determination processor checks whether the time required for work, which is calculated in accordance with the inputs of different types, is not less than a determination value, and determines, in accordance with the result of the check, whether or not inputs to the input device are made in a predicted manner.

5. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 2 , wherein the determination processor checks whether the time interval between input times for different processing targets concerning inputs of the same type is not less than a determination value, and determines, in accordance with the result of the check, whether or not inputs to the input device are made in a predicted manner.

6. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 5 , wherein the collection processing processor performs a process of calculating at least one of the percentage of inputs made in the predicted manner with respect to pieces of work of the same type and the percentage of inputs not made in the predicted manner with respect to the pieces of work of the same type.

7. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 6 , wherein the notification device outputs visually displayable data to a means for visually displaying the percentage concerning each manufacturing process.

8. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 2 , wherein the determination processor determines in a binary manner whether or not individual inputs to be made to the input device in accordance with the inputs of different types are actually made.

9. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 2 , wherein the collection processing processor performs a process of calculating at least one of the percentage of inputs made in the predicted manner with respect to pieces of work of the same type and the percentage of inputs not made in the predicted manner with respect to the pieces of work of the same type.

10. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 9 , wherein the notification device outputs visually displayable data to a means for visually displaying the percentage concerning each manufacturing process.

11. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 1 , wherein the determination processor determines, in accordance with the relationship between the input results concerning the individual inputs of different types, whether or not inputs concerning a plurality of pieces of work performed at timings close to each other are made in a predicted manner.

12. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 11 , wherein the determination processor checks whether the time required for work, which is calculated in accordance with the inputs of different types, is not less than a determination value, and determines, in accordance with the result of the check, whether or not inputs to the input device are made in a predicted manner.

13. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 1 , wherein the determination processor checks whether the time interval between input times for different processing targets concerning inputs of the same type is not less than a determination value, and determines, in accordance with the result of the check, whether or not inputs to the input device are made in a predicted manner.

14. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 13 , wherein the collection processing processor performs a process of calculating at least one of the percentage of inputs made in the predicted manner with respect to pieces of work of the same type and the percentage of inputs not made in the predicted manner with respect to the pieces of work of the same type.

15. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 14 , wherein the notification device outputs visually displayable data to a means for visually displaying the percentage concerning each manufacturing process.

16. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 1 , wherein the collection processing processor performs a process of calculating at least one of the percentage of inputs made in the predicted manner with respect to pieces of work of the same type and the percentage of inputs not made in the predicted manner with respect to the pieces of work of the same type.

17. The manufacturing process management support device according to claim 16 , wherein the notification device outputs visually displayable data to a means for visually displaying the percentage concerning each manufacturing process.

Assignees

• Osg Corp

Inventors

• Shiiki Takashi
• Ide Masahiko

Classifications

• Y02P90/18

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G05B2219/31483

  Verify monitored data if valid or not by comparing with reference value · CPC title

• Y02P90/22

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G05B19/41875 Primary

  characterised by quality surveillance of production · CPC title