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QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM, QUALITY CONTROL APPARATUS, QUALITY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

  • US 20100198387A1
  • Filed: 09/14/2009
  • Published: 08/05/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A quality control apparatus, comprising:

  • a first extracting unit that extracts, from a time series distribution of troubles that have occurred in electronic equipments, a first characteristics of states of occurrence of the troubles;

    a part specifying unit that specifies one or more parts included in the electronic equipments, the parts being involved with the troubles;

    a second extracting unit that extracts, from another time series distribution of a rate of use corresponding to each of suppliers which supply the parts specified by the part specifying unit, a second characteristics of the parts; and

    a part supplier specifying unit that specifies one or more of the suppliers supplying the parts correlated to the troubles based on a correlation between the first characteristics extracted by the first extracting unit and the second characteristics extracted by the second extracting unit.

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