Assembly information management system and client/server distribution system for assembly information management

• US 20010029508A1
• Filed: 01/03/2001
• Published: 10/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Araki, Makoto, Okada, Atsushi, Mizuno, Hirotaka, Yokokawa, Keiichiro, Sawamura, Yoshinori, Sonekawa, Tomoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,054,826 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

An assembly information management system includes a work standard creation subsystem (2800) for describing a work standard using an operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase to create each work standard data, a standard manhour database having records each constituted by a work standard described in the same way and a standard manhour of the work standard, a standard manhour setting subsystem (2801) for executing matching search for each of a plurality of work standards downloaded from the work standard creation subsystem while referring to the phrase portion of each record of the standard manhour database and assigning the searched standard manhour of the work standard as a set manhour, and a work assignment subsystem (2802) which can input the data of a composition condition, downloads a work standard group with manhour data from the standard manhour setting subsystem and divisionally composes the work standards of the work standard group to a plurality of stations on the basis of the composition condition input by the user.

Claims

1. An assembly information management system for creating/editing/managing work standard data related to an assembly work of various goods to manage the assembly work of the goods, comprising:

a work standard creation subsystem for describing a work related to a work standard using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information related to the operation and/or object to create each work standard data;

a standard manhour database having records each constituted by a work standard described by an operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase and a standard manhour of the work standard;

a standard manhour setting subsystem connected to said work standard creation subsystem and said standard manhour database, said standard manhour setting subsystem being adapted to execute matching search for each of a first work standard group of manhour setting targets downloaded from said work standard creation subsystem while referring to a phrase portion of each record of the standard manhour database and assign the searched standard manhour of the work standard as a set manhour; and

a work assignment subsystem capable of inputting data of a predetermined composition condition, said work assignment subsystem being adapted to download a second work standard group with manhour data from said standard manhour setting subsystem and divisionally compose the work standards of the second work standard group to a plurality of stations on the basis of a composition condition.

4. A client/server distribution system for assembly information management, wherein:

said subsystem provided in said assembly information management system of

claim 1

; and

a common memory connected to said subsystem to read out or store the work standard group.

5. The system according to

claim 1

, wherein data of the work standard group to which the manhours are given by said standard manhour setting subsystem is uploaded to said work standard creation subsystem.

6. The system according to

claim 1

, wherein the work standard group composed by said work assignment subsystem is uploaded to said work standard creation subsystem together with station information accompanying the work standards.

7. The system according to

claim 1

, wherein the operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase in each record of said standard manhour database are translated to a predetermined language,

said work standard creation subsystem further comprises a translation subsystem for translating each phrase of the first work standard group to the predetermined language, and

said standard manhour setting subsystem searches and matches each phrase of the first work standard group, which is already translated and downloaded from said work standard creation subsystem with the translated phrase of each record of said standard manhour database.

8. The system according to of

claim 1

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined image data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the image data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the image data in said memory.

9. The system according to

claim 1

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined voice data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the voice data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the voice data in said memory.

10. The system according to

claim 4

, wherein a workstation for a station as a composition target is connected to said client/server distribution system through a communication network.

13. The system according to

claim 5

, wherein the work standard group composed by said work assignment subsystem is uploaded to said work standard creation subsystem together with station information accompanying the work standards.

14. The system according to

claim 6

, wherein the operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase in each record of said standard manhour database are translated to a predetermined language,

said work standard creation subsystem further comprises a translation subsystem for translating each phrase of the first work standard group to the predetermined language, and

said standard manhour setting subsystem searches and matches each phrase of the first work standard group, which is already translated and downloaded from said work standard creation subsystem with the translated phrase of each record of said standard manhour database.

2. An assembly information management system for creating/editing/managing work standard data related to an assembly work of various goods to manage the assembly work of the goods, comprising:

a standard manhour database having records each constituted by a work standard described by an operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase and a standard manhour of the work standard;

a work standard creation/manhour setting subsystem connected to said work standard creation subsystem and said standard manhour database, said standard manhour setting subsystem being adapted to describe a work related to a work standard using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information related to the operation and/or object to create each work standard data, execute matching search for each of a first work standard group of manhour setting targets while referring to a phrase portion of each record of the standard manhour database, and assign the searched standard manhour of the work standard as a set manhour; and

a work assignment subsystem for downloading a second work standard group with manhour data from said work standard creation/manhour setting subsystem and divisionally composing the work standards of the second work standard group to a plurality of stations on the basis of a composition condition, said work assignment subsystem being capable of inputting data of a predetermined composition condition.

11. A client/server distribution system for assembly information management, comprising:

said subsystem provided in said assembly information management system of

claim 2

; and

a common memory connected to said subsystem to read out or store the work standard group.

15. The system according to of

claim 2

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined image data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the image data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the image data in said memory.

17. The system according to

claim 2

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined voice data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the voice data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the voice data in said memory.

3. An assembly information management system for creating/editing/managing work standard data related to an assembly work of various goods to manage the assembly work of the goods, comprising:

a work standard creation subsystem for describing a work related to a work standard using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information related to the operation and/or object to create each work standard data;

a standard manhour database having records each constituted by a work standard described by an operation phrase, object phrase, and comment phrase and a standard manhour of the work standard; and

a standard manhour setting/work assignment subsystem capable of inputting data of a predetermined composition condition and connected to said work standard creation subsystem and said standard manhour database, said standard manhour setting/work assignment subsystem being adapted to execute matching search for each of a first work standard group of manhour setting targets downloaded from said work standard creation subsystem while referring to a phrase portion of each record of the standard manhour database, assign the searched standard manhour of the work standard as a set manhour, and divisionally compose the work standards of the work standard group assigned the manhours to a plurality of stations on the basis of a composition condition.

12. A client/server distribution system for assembly information management, comprising:

said subsystem provided in said assembly information management system of

claim 3

; and

a common memory connected to said subsystem to read out or store the work standard group.

16. The system according to of

claim 3

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined image data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the image data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the image data in said memory.

18. The system according to

claim 3

, wherein said work standard creation subsystem attaches predetermined voice data to the data of the first work standard group, has a memory for storing the work standard data having the voice data, downloads information of a composition result by said work assignment subsystem from said work assignment subsystem, and merges the composition result with the voice data in said memory.