System for predicting a demand for repair parts

• US 6,751,574 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2002
• Issued: 06/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Shinohara, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Barlow, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R
• Application Number:
  US10/201,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20030014196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 702/34, 702/35, 702/84, 702/33, 702/81, 702/179, 702/181, 705/1, 705/7, 705/10
• US Class Current: 702/179
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A system for predicting a reliable demand for repair parts in which trouble rate in the future of the repair parts can be presumed accurately by a computer. The system has a database that collects various data, a summing up feature that extracts from the database troubles owing to durability deterioration from the causes of troubles to sum up the number of troubles owing to durability deterioration for each year elapsed, a calculating feature that calculates a trouble rate of the repair parts, a presuming feature that presumes a trouble rate of the repair parts after the guarantee period has elapsed, and a predicting feature that calculates market scale in the future of the repair parts from the presumed trouble rate of the repair parts after the guarantee period has elapsed.

Claims

1. A system for predicting for a demand for repair parts comprising:

a database that collects data of number of troubles, causes of troubles and number of years that have elapsed with respect to a certain kind of repair parts on the basis of said repair parts exchanged owing to troubles within a guarantee period;

summing up means that extracts from said database troubles owing to durability deterioration from said causes of troubles to sum up the number of troubles owing to durability deterioration for each year that has elapsed;

yearly trouble rate calculating means that calculates a trouble rate of said repair parts for each year that has elapsed from said number of troubles summed up for each year that has elapsed and from the number of existing products for each year that has elapsed;

trouble rate presuming means that presumes a trouble rate of said repair parts after said guarantee period has elapsed from said calculated trouble rate of said repair parts for each year that has elapsed; and

market demand predicting means that calculates a market scale in future of said repair parts from said presumed trouble rate of said repair parts after said guarantee period has elapsed and from a presumed number of said existing products in future to predict a demand for said repair parts;

said summing up means, yearly trouble rate calculating means, trouble rate presuming means, and market demand predicting means constituting a computer.

2. The system for predicting a demand for repair parts as claimed in claim 1, wherein said trouble rate presuming means operates to presume said trouble rate of said repair parts after said guarantee period has elapsed, by making a Weibull-analysis of said trouble rate of said repair parts for each year elapsed.