In-factory data control method and data control system

• US 20050213523A1
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kinei, Satofumi
• Application Number:
  US11/083,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20050213523A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4185 characterised by the network communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

Provided is an in-factory data control system that, at a lower cost, can collect output data from a facility having no data transmitting function and data which is not object of automatic transmission, and carry out data control such as processing/analyzing of the collected data. In an in-factory data control system, data outputted to a data output section of a facility having a data output function, but no data transmitting function is inputted to a portable terminal which is portable, the inputted data is transmitted by wireless communication from the portable terminal to a host computer, and the data having received by the host computer is processed and/or analyzed.

Claims

1. An in-factory data control method for process management in which data obtained from a facility provided in a factory is collected and processed and/or analyzed, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining data from a facility having a data display function, but no data transmitting function;

inputting the obtained data to a portable input apparatus which is portable and can transmit data;

transmitting the data to a data processing apparatus by the portable input apparatus ; and

processing and/or analyzing the data by the data processing apparatus.

2. The in-factory data control method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the data to the data processing apparatus by the portable input apparatus is carried out by wireless communication.

3. The in-factory data control method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the data to the data processing apparatus by the portable input apparatus is carried out by wire communication.

4. The in-factory data control method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the data to the data processing apparatus by the portable input apparatus is carried out via an apparatus linked by wired connections to the data processing apparatus.

5. The in-factory data control method of claim 4, wherein the apparatus linked by wired connections is a cradle.

6. An in-factory data control system for process management in which data obtained from a facility provided in a factory is collected and processed and/or analyzed, the in-factory data control system comprising:

a facility capable of displaying data, but not capable of transmitting data;

a portable input apparatus into which data to be displayed by the facility is inputted, the portable input apparatus being portable and capable of transmitting data; and

a data processing apparatus for receiving and processing and/or analyzing the data transmitted by the portable input apparatus.

7. The in-factory data control system of claim 6, wherein the portable input apparatus is provided with wireless transmission section,

the data processing apparatus is provided with wireless receiving section, and

data transmission from the portable input apparatus to the data processing apparatus is carried out by wireless communication.

8. The in-factory data control system of claim 6, wherein data transmission from the portable input apparatus to the data processing apparatus is carried out by wire communication.

9. The in-factory data control system of claim 6, wherein the data processing apparatus is provided with an apparatus linked thereto by wired connections.

10. The in-factory data control system of claim 9, wherein the apparatus linked to the data processing apparatus by wired connections is a cradle.