Rotation Planning Apparatus and Rotation Planning System

• US 20080172267A1
• Filed: 09/04/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: MORITOMO, Yoshikazu, KOJIMA, Yoshitaka, ARAKI, Kenji, HOTTA, Miyako
• Application Number:
  US11/849,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/005 Repairing methods or devices
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2230/80 Repairing, retrofitting or upgrading methods
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32118 Loading, allocates operations and tools to selected part type
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32306 Rules to make scheduling decisions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

An apparatus or system is used for planning the rotation of part usage between shafts or plants based at least on schedule information relating to operation and inspection-purpose shutdown, attribute information relating to part life, part maintenance periods, and other part attributes, and part information relating to the parts to be used in the rotation.

Claims

1. A rotation planning apparatus comprising:

an operation planning means for setting up an operation plan for a plurality of shafts or plants and outputting the operation plan; and

a maintenance plan means for setting up a maintenance plan based on the operation plan for the plurality of shafts or plants outputted from the operation planning means and providing an output for implementing a rotation plan.

2. The rotation planning apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

an inspection history storage means for storing historical damage information of parts at inspections and outputting the historical damage information;

a part history storage means for storing historical information of the parts, such as an hour of use of the parts and a kind of carried-out maintenance, and outputting the historical information; and

a maintenance details estimation means for estimating contents of maintenance in said operation plan based on the historical damage information from the inspection history storage means and the historical information from the part history storage means.

3. The rotation planning apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the operation planning means sets up the operation plan also based on the output of the maintenance plan means.

4. The rotation planning apparatus as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

an inspection history storage means for storing historical damage information of parts at inspections and outputting the historical damage information;

a part history storage means for storing historical information of the parts, such as an hour of use of the parts and a kind of carried-out maintenance, and outputting the historical information; and

a maintenance details estimation means for estimating contents of maintenance in said operation plan based on the historical damage information from the inspection history storage means and the historical information from the part history storage means.

5. The rotation planning apparatus as set forth in claim 4, further comprising display means for displaying at least one of the historical damage information from the inspection history storage means and the historical information from the part history storage means.

6. The rotation planning apparatus as set forth in claim 5, further comprising a stock control plan setup means for setting up a stock control plan based on the operation plan.