TRACEABILITY SYSTEM

• US 20080231427A1
• Filed: 05/19/2008
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shigeru Sasaki, Shuji Terada, Takeshi Nakatani, Yoshifumi Sato, Yuichi Kobayashi
• Original Assignee: Shigeru Sasaki, Shuji Terada, Takeshi Nakatani, Yoshifumi Sato, Yuichi Kobayashi
• Inventors: Sasaki, Shigeru, Nakatani, Takeshi, Kobayashi, Yuichi, Sato, Yoshifumi, Terada, Shuji
• Granted Patent: US 7,482,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.42
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

An individual article management system for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at least one of the plurality of sites. Each of the information processing apparatuses transmits read identification information and formed index data to a data center apparatus through a network, and the data center apparatus, receives the transmitted identification information and the transmitted index data, and stores each of the received index data into a storing apparatus so as to be associated with each other on the basis of the identification information for identifying the individual article.

Claims

1. An individual article management system for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at least one of said plurality of sites, comprising:

information processing apparatuses installed at said plurality of sites; and

a data center apparatus connected to each of said information processing apparatuses through a network,

wherein each of said information processing apparatuses,

reads identification information regarding said individual article from a tag attached to said individual article,

forms index data including change information showing a process to said individual article at the corresponding site for said individual article, and

transmits said read identification information and said formed index data to said data center apparatus through said network, and

said data center apparatus,

receives said transmitted identification information and said transmitted index data, and

stores each of said received index data into a storing apparatus so as to be associated with each other on the basis of the identification information for identifying said individual article.

2. The individual article management system according to claim 1, wherein said identification information is a mono ID for identifying said individual article.

3. The individual article management system according to claim 2,

wherein said data center apparatus receives, as said identification information, pre-process identification information added to said individual article at a site before the concerned site and post-process identification information added if said individual article is processed, as said process, to change the form thereof at the concerned site, and

stores said pre-process identification information and said post-process identification information into said storing apparatus so as to be associated with said change information.

4. The individual article management system according to claim 1,

wherein said change information includes at least one division to divide the individual article into a plurality of articles, change to change the form or name of the individual article, and integration to integrate a plurality of individual articles as said process.

5. The individual article management system according to claim 4,

wherein said individual article is a meat, and said change information includes dressing into the meat and packing of the meat as said process.

6. The individual article management system according to claim 3,

wherein said post-process identification information is created from said pre-process identification information in accordance with a predetermined rule.

7. The individual article management system according to claim 6,

wherein said pre-process identification information is expressed by a numerical value of a predetermined number of digits, and in said predetermined rule, said post-process identification information is created by adding a numerical value of a predetermined number of digits to said pre-process identification information.

8. The individual article management system according to claim 4,

wherein said data center apparatus stores any one of the tags attached to the individual articles before the integration as being active into said storing apparatus, if said change information indicates said integration.

9. The individual article management system according to claim 1,

wherein said identification information is a process ID for identifying each process for said individual article.