System and method for managing vehicle inspections

• US 20050251302A1
• Filed: 04/13/2005
• Published: 11/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Tsubota, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US11/104,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20050251302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/005 Inspection and final control devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for managing vehicle inspections, the system including a server used on a vehicle production line and having an inspection master database which stores inspection items for parts to be repaired, and a repair terminal and a repair checking terminal which communicate with the server via a LAN and which are used in a plurality of inspection stages. The server includes a transmitting section which extracts, on the basis of repair information on a part to be repaired which is transmitted by the repair terminal, inspection items related to this part to be repaired, from the inspection master data, and which transmits the inspection items to the repair checking terminal as re-inspection items. The repair checking terminal includes a display, and a display section which displays, on the display, the re-inspection items for the part to be repaired which have been transmitted by the server.

Claims

1. A system for managing vehicle inspections, the system comprising a server used on a vehicle production line and including an inspection master database which stores inspection items for parts to be repaired;

and a repair terminal and a repair checking terminal which communicate with the server via a LAN and which are used in a plurality of inspection stages,

wherein the server comprises;

a transmitting section configured to extract, on the basis of repair information on a part to be repaired which is transmitted by the repair terminal, inspection items related to this part to be repaired, from the inspection master data, and to transmit the inspection items to the repair checking terminal as re-inspection items, and

the repair checking terminal comprises;

a display; and

a display section configured to display, on the display, the re-inspection items for the part to be repaired which have been transmitted by the server.

2. The system for managing vehicle inspections according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises an inspection result input screen to which an inspection result for each inspection item is input, and the inspection results input to the inspection result input screen are transmitted to the server.

3. A method for managing vehicle inspections which method is used for a system for managing vehicle inspections, the system comprising a server used on a vehicle production line and including an inspection master database which stores inspection items for parts to be repaired;

and a repair terminal and a repair checking terminal which communicate with the server via a LAN and which are used in a plurality of inspection stages,

wherein the server comprises the step of;

on the basis of repair information on a part to be repaired which is transmitted by the repair terminal, extracting inspection items related to this part to be repaired, from the inspection master data, and transmitting the inspection items to the repair checking terminal as re-inspection items, and

the repair checking terminal comprises the step of;

displaying, on the display, the re-inspection items for the part to be repaired which has been transmitted by the server.

4. The method for managing vehicle inspections according to claim 3, further comprising the step of transmitting inspection results input to an inspection result input screen of the display to the server.