Facility management system based on flow-line information

• US 20030009364A1
• Filed: 07/01/2002
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Shojima, Kazuya Takahashi, Masanori Miyoshi, Yoshiaki Usami
• Original Assignee: Hiroshi Shojima, Kazuya Takahashi, Masanori Miyoshi, Yoshiaki Usami
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kazuya, Miyoshi, Masanori, Shojima, Hiroshi, Usami, Yoshiaki
• Application Number:
  US10/184,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20030009364A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

Since it is not possible to automatically determine the appropriateness of a layout at present, there has been a problem in that it is impossible to change the layout of the facility at an appropriate timing. To solve this problem, the appropriateness a facility is judged based on a movement cost calculated using an automatically measured flow line of a moving body. In order to attain such a result, flow line-measuring is carried out for measuring the flow line of a moving body by detecting the moving body as an object to be monitored; movement cost-calculating is carried out for calculating a cost expended on movement of the moving body derived from low line information; and movement cost-evaluating is carried out for judging whether or not a cost calculated by the movement cost-calculating process is within a permissible range.

Claims

1. A facility maintenance assisting system, which comprises:

a flow line-measuring means for detecting a moving body in a monitored object, and then measuring a flow line of the detected object;

a histogram-calculating means for dividing a facility into small zones from said flow line data, and then calculating histogram data expressing a using frequency for each of said small zones;

a histogram-evaluating means for forming a maintenance plan corresponding to said using frequency obtained from said calculated histogram using said using frequency; and

a facility maintenance planning means for integrating the whole maintenance plan based on said maintenance plans.

2. A facility maintenance assisting system according to claim 1, which comprises a facility maintenance planning means for actually integrating the whole maintenance plan.

3. A facility maintenance assisting system according to any one of claim 1, wherein said histogram-calculating means calculates a movement frequency between said small zones.

4. A facility maintenance assisting system according to any one of claim 3, wherein said histogram-calculating means calculates a movement frequency between said small zones.