Work management system

• US 20050075918A1
• Filed: 07/23/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Yanagimachi, Noriyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/897,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20050075918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group

Abstract

In a work management system to manage working conditions through a network, when a work start order is inputted by a worker at the working terminal in accordance with the action set by the work setter and the file server connects the working terminal and a job directory to store a job of the action, the file server produces a verification file to record the attribute of the job directory for the worker, and when the worker inputs a work cancel order, the file server produces a comparison file to record the attribute of the job directory for the worker and judges a justification of the work cancel order on a basis of an identity between the attribute of the job directory recorded in the verification file and the attribute of the job directory recorded in the comparison file.

Claims

1. A work management system to manage working conditions through a network, comprising:

a work setting terminal at which a work setter sets an action to designate a name of a job to finish an ordered item received from a customer and a name of at least one worker;

a working terminal at which a worker handles a work of a job;

a file server to record a job directory to store at least one file with regard to a job; and

a data base server to record management information to manage a working condition;

wherein when a work start order is inputted by a worker at the working terminal in accordance with the action set by the work setter and the file server connects the working terminal and a job directory to store a job of the action, the file server produces a verification file to record the attribute of the job directory for the worker, and when the worker inputs a work cancel order, the file server produces a comparison file to record the attribute of the job directory for the worker and judges a justification of the work cancel order on a basis of an identity between the attribute of the job directory recorded in the verification file and the attribute of the job directory recorded in the comparison file.

2. The work management system of claim 1, wherein when the action is set by the work setter at the work setting terminal, the data base server records the setting of the action as the management information.

3. The work management system of claim 1, wherein when the work start order with the designation of the action is inputted by the worker at the working terminal and the work terminal requests the file server for a direct connection, the file server inquires the database server to confirm whether this request is justified, and wherein when the request is justified, the file server makes the job directory into a connectable state to permit the work terminal to make the connection and the permitted work terminal directly connects a work directory on the work terminal and the job directory, and then the database server records the fact that work has started, as management information of the action for each worker who uses the work terminal.

4. The work management system of claim 1, wherein when the work cancel order with the designation of the action is inputted at the work terminal, the work terminal requests the file server for cancellation of work, then the file server inquiries the database server to confirm whether this request is justified, and wherein when the request is justified and the work directory on the work terminal and the job directory on the file server are in a state of direct connection, the work terminal disconnects the direct connection between the work directory on the work terminal and the job directory on the server and the database server deletes the management information of the action of each worker who uses the work terminal for the action, and when the request is justified and the work directory on the work terminal and the job directory on the file server are not in a state of connection, the database server deletes the management information of the action of each worker who uses the work terminal for the action.

5. The work management system of claim 1, wherein upon a work suspension order with the designation of an action is inputted at the work terminal, the work terminal disconnects the direct connection between the work directory on the work terminal and the job directory on the file server, and the database server records the fact that the work is suspended.

6. The work management system of claim 1, wherein the managed work includes a group of works.

7. The work management system of claim 1, wherein the file attributes recorded in the verification file and the comparison file do not include file attributes of files that the operation system has automatically created.

8. The work management system of claim 1, wherein the file attributes recorded in the verification file and the comparison file include at least one of a path name, a file name, a file size, an updated date-and-time, and a file type.

9. The work management system of claim 1, wherein when the file server determines that a command to cancel work is justified, the file server deletes a verification file and a comparison file related to the command to cancel work.