Sanitary measurement system

• US 20050021347A1
• Filed: 11/05/2001
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
• Original Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
• Inventors: Amano, Yoshihisa, Miki, Kenichi, Arai, Junichiro, Katayama, Hideo, Akamatsu, Megumi, Murata, Toshimi
• Application Number:
  US10/493,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20050021347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing

Abstract

A sanitary measurement system is configured and arranged to reduce a load relating to sanitary measurement in a plurality of food factories. The sanitary measurement system registers a plurality of food factories, manages and effectively utilizes sanitary information obtained from the food factories. The sanitary measurement system includes a sanitary information managing server and a measuring device. The measuring device performs sanitary inspection in each food factory, and sends data (sanitary information) formed of a result of the inspection to the sanitary information managing server.

Claims

1. A sanitary measurement system comprising:

a sanitary information managing computer configured to register a plurality of food factories, manage sanitary information obtained from said food factories and effectively utilizing the sanitary information; and

a plurality of sanitary inspection device configured to perform sanitary inspection in said food factories, and configured to provide sanitary information formed as a result of the sanitary inspection to said sanitary information managing computer.

2. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 1, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is connected to said sanitary inspection devices over the Internet.

3. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 1, wherein

said sanitary inspection devices are further configured to conduct the sanitary inspection with respect to at least products handled in said food factory, and

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to manage said sanitary information by at least one of a factory-by-factory basis, a product-by-product basis, and a material-by-material basis related to food materials contained in said products.

4. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 3, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide stored sanitary information data to said food factories.

5. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 4, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to analysis said stored sanitary information data to provide results of the analysis to said food factories.

6. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 4, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide said stored sanitary information data to said food factories via a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

7. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 3, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to inform said food factories of whether or not said products can be shipped to a plurality of stores of a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

8. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 4, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide said sanitary information relating to said products to said a plurality of stores owned by a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

9. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 3, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer includes databases created from said sanitary information and organized on the food material-by-food material basis and on a cooking method-by-cooking method basis, and

said sanitary information managing computer is configured to provide from said databases data required for product development or trial production to said food factories.

10. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 1, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to estimate a degree of consumption of consumables used by said sanitary inspection devices based on said sanitary information provided from said sanitary inspection devices in said food factories, and advise said food factories to order said consumables.

11. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 1, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is remotely connected to said sanitary inspection devices by a communication network.

12. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 11, wherein

said sanitary inspection devices are further configured to conduct the sanitary inspection with respect to at least products handled in said food factory, and

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to manage said sanitary information by at least one of a factory-by-factory basis, a product-by-product basis, and a material-by-material basis related to food materials contained in said products.

13. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 12, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide stored sanitary information data to said food factories.

14. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 13, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to analysis said stored sanitary information data to provide results of the analysis to said food factories.

15. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 14, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide said stored sanitary information data to said food factories via a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

16. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 13, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to inform said food factories of whether or not said products can be shipped to a plurality of stores of a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

17. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 13, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to provide said sanitary information relating to said products to a plurality of stores owned by a food-sales company to which at least some of said food factories belong.

18. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 13, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer includes databases created from said sanitary information and organized on the food material-by-food material basis and on a cooking method-by-cooking method basis, and

said sanitary information managing computer is configured to provide from said databases data required for product development or trial production to said food factories.

19. The sanitary measurement system according to claim 13, wherein

said sanitary information managing computer is further configured to estimate a degree of consumption of consumables used by said sanitary inspection devices based on said sanitary information provided from said sanitary inspection devices in said food factories, and advise said food factories to order said consumables.

20. A sanitary measurement system comprising:

sanitary information managing means for registering a plurality of food factories, for manage sanitary information obtained from said food factories and for utilizing the sanitary information;

sanitary inspection device means for performing sanitary inspection in said food factories; and

communication means for providing sanitary information formed as a result of the sanitary inspection to said sanitary information managing computer.