Information management apparatus, an information management system, an information management program and a recording medium

• US 20050256840A1
• Filed: 05/04/2005
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Kitou, Yoshiyuki, Morimura, Tatsuo, Hirosumi, Hitoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/121,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20050256840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an information management apparatus, an information management system, an information management program, and a recording medium, which uses know-how of the manufacture of a device to improve operation related to the device. An information management apparatus according to the present invention is a device for managing information related to a predefined device, having a basic information database configured to store basic information related to the device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device, and a user information database configured to store case information related to the device obtained by the user of the device.

Claims

1. An information management apparatus for managing information related to a predefined device, comprising:

a basic information database configured to store basic information related to the device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device; and

a user information database configured to store case information related to the device obtained by the user of the device.

2. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

said user information database is further configured to store evaluation information of the basic information, the evaluation information obtained by the user.

3. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein

said user information database is further configured to store evaluation information of the case information.

4. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

an information retrieval unit configured to retrieve, based on a request from a terminal connected to the information management apparatus via a network, information related to the request from said basic information database and said user information database,

wherein

the information management apparatus transmits the information retrieved by said information retrieved by said information retrieval unit to the terminal.

5. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

an evaluation information registration unit configured to register the evaluation information transmitted from the terminal to said user information database.

6. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a case information registration unit configured to register the case information transmitted from the terminal to the user information database.

7. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

said basic information database prohibits the basic information from being changed.

8. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

the basic information is know-how accumulated by the manufacturer of the device.

9. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

the basic information includes at least one of information related to troubles of the device, case information related to the device, and information related to operational procedure of the device.

10. The information management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

the device is an injection molding machine;

and

said basic information database accumulates a method of solving at least one of “

cushion defect”

, “

cycle anomaly”

, “

filling peak pressure anomaly”

, “

motor temperature anomaly”

, and “

ball screw temperature anomaly”

.

11. An information management system comprising an information management apparatus for managing information related to a predefined device, and a terminal connected to the information management apparatus via a network,

wherein

said information management apparatus comprises:

a basic information database configured to store basic information related to the device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device;

a user information database configured to store case information related to the device obtained by the user of the device, and

said information management transmits, based on a request from the terminal, basic information retrieved from said basic information database to the terminal, and registers, based on the basic information, evaluation information of the basic information transmitted by the terminal to said user information database.

12. An information management system comprising an information management apparatus for managing information related to a predefined device, and a terminal connected to the information management apparatus via a network,

wherein

said information management apparatus comprises:

a basic information database configured to store basic information related to the device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device; and

a user information database configured to store case information related to the device obtained by the user of the device,

said information management transmits retrieval result to the terminal retrieved from at least one of said basic information database and said user information database based on a request from the terminal, and

the terminal comprises a display unit for displaying information received from the information management apparatus.

13. An information management program that causes an information management apparatus comprising a basic information database configured to store basic information related to a device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device, and a user information database configured to store evaluation information of the basic information given by a user of the device, to perform the steps of:

transmitting basic information retrieved from the basic information database based on a request from the terminal connected via a network to the terminal; and

registering evaluation information of the basic information transmitted from the terminal based on the transmitted basic information to the user information database.

15. The information management program claimed in claim 13, further comprising the step of:

transmitting information retrieved from the basic information database and the user information database based on the request from the terminal.

17. A computer readable recording medium storing the information management program as claimed in one of claims 13.

14. An information management program that causes an information management apparatus comprising a basic information database configured to store basic information related to a device accumulated by the manufacturer of the device, and a user information database configured to store case information related to the device obtained by the user of the device, to perform the steps of:

registering case information related to the device obtained by the user, transmitted from the terminal, to the user information database.

16. The information management program claimed in claim 14, further comprising the step of:

transmitting information retrieved from the basic information database and the user information database based on the request from the terminal.

18. A computer readable recording medium storing the information management program as claimed in one of claims 14.