Component and material traceability control apparatus, control method, control program, and control program memory medium

• US 7,010,378 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2005
• Issued: 03/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hara, Kazuo, Otani, Katsumi, Ohishi, Satoshi, Morioka, Yoshifumi, Kogai, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Von Buhr, Maria N.
• Application Number:
  US11/046,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20060020361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 700 99-102, 700/115, 700/116, 700213-226, 707/100, 707/102, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 700/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/084 Product tracking, e.g. of substrates during the manufacturing process; Component traceability
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/00 Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The present invention is related to a component and material traceability control apparatus for controlling manufacturing lot identification information of any of a component and material constituting a product manufactured according to a process where a manufacturing apparatus with not less than one component and material reserve unit picks up a needed amount out of the component and material reserved in the component and material reserve unit and manufactures the product, and the component and material traceability control apparatus is equipped with at least a processing unit, a memory unit used as a work area by the processing unit, a manufacturing performance information memory unit, a component and material supply performance information memory unit, and a manufacturing lot trace information memory unit.

Claims

1. A component and material traceability control apparatus for controlling manufacturing lot identification information of any of a component and material constituting a product manufactured according to a process where a manufacturing apparatus with not less than one component and material reserve unit picks up a needed amount out of the component and material reserved in the component and material reserve unit and manufactures the product, said component and material traceability control apparatus at least comprising:

a processing unit;

a memory unit used as a work area by the processing unit;

a manufacturing performance information memory unit;

a component and material supply performance information memory unit; and

a manufacturing lot trace information memory unit,

wherein in said product manufactured by said manufacturing apparatus, information of manufacturing start time and end time according to the manufacturing apparatus is made to correspond to manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus and manufactured article identification information added to said product and is memorized in said manufacturing performance information memory unit;

wherein in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped are made to correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, the manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit; and

wherein in said product manufactured by said manufacturing apparatus, not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of said component and material usable in said product is extracted, not less than the one piece of manufacturing lot identification information extracted is made to correspond to said manufactured article identification information and the name of said component and material, and is memorized in said manufacturing lot trace information memory unit, based on the information of the manufacturing start time and end time of said product memorized in said manufacturing performance information memory unit and the information of the component and material supply start time and end time memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit.

2. A component and material traceability control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped are made to correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, the manufacturing lot identification information is not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information.

3. A component and material traceability control apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a purchase lot trace identification information memory unit,

wherein in said purchase lot trace identification information memory unit, purchase lot trace identification information for identifying a purchase lot of said component and material and not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material contained in the purchase lot of the component and material are made to correspond to each other, and are memorized; and

wherein when in a component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped are made to correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, said purchase lot identification number is memorized instead of said manufacturing lot identification information.

4. A component and material traceability control apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising:

a purchase lot trace identification information memory unit,

wherein in said purchase lot trace identification information memory unit, purchase lot trace identification information for identifying a purchase lot of said component and material and not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material contained in the purchase lot of the component and material are made to correspond to each other, and are memorized; and

wherein when in a component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped are made to correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, said purchase lot identification number is memorized instead of said manufacturing lot identification information.

5. A component and material traceability control method in a component and material traceability control apparatus for controlling manufacturing lot identification information of any of a component and material constituting a product manufactured according to a process where a manufacturing apparatus with not less than one component and material reserve unit picks up a needed amount out of the component and material reserved in the component and material reserve unit and manufactures the product, said component and material traceability control apparatus comprising:

a processing unit;

a memory unit used as a work area by the processing unit;

a manufacturing performance information memory unit;

a component and material supply performance information memory unit; and

a manufacturing lot trace information memory unit,

wherein said component and material traceability control method comprising the steps of;

making information of manufacturing start time and end time according to the manufacturing apparatus correspond to manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus and manufactured article identification information added to said product and memorizing in said manufacturing performance information memory unit in said product manufactured by said manufacturing apparatus;

making component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and memorizing the component and material supply start time and end time in said component and material supply performance information memory unit in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus; and

extracting not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of said component and material usable in said product, making not less than the one piece of manufacturing lot identification information extracted correspond to said manufactured article identification information and the name of said component and material, and memorizing the manufacturing lot identification information in said manufacturing lot trace information memory unit, based on the information of the manufacturing start time and end time of said product memorized in said manufacturing performance information memory unit and the information of the component and material supply start time and end time memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit in said product manufactured by said manufacturing apparatus.

6. A component and material traceability control method according to claim 5,

wherein when in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus, said component and material traceability control apparatus makes component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and memorizes the component and material supply start time and end time in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, the manufacturing lot identification information is not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information.

7. A component and material traceability control apparatus according to claim 5 that further comprises a purchase lot trace identification information memory unit, makes purchase lot trace identification information for identifying a purchase lot of said component and material and not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material contained in the purchase lot of the component and material correspond to each other, and memorizes them in the purchase lot trace identification information memory unit;

and

when the component and material traceability control apparatus makes component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, the component and material traceability control apparatus memorizes said purchase lot identification number instead of said manufacturing lot identification information in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus.

8. A component and material traceability control apparatus according to claim 6 that further comprises a purchase lot trace identification information memory unit, makes purchase lot trace identification information for identifying a purchase lot of said component and material and not less than one piece of manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material contained in the purchase lot of the component and material correspond to each other, and memorizes them in the purchase lot trace identification information memory unit;

and

when the component and material traceability control apparatus makes component and material supply start time of a supply of a predetermined component and material being started and component and material supply stop time of the supply being stopped correspond to manufacturing lot identification information of the component and material, manufacturing apparatus identification information of said manufacturing apparatus, component and material reserve unit identification information of said component and material reserve unit, and a name of the component and material supplied, and are memorized in said component and material supply performance information memory unit, the component and material traceability control apparatus memorizes said purchase lot identification number instead of said manufacturing lot identification information in the component and material reserve unit of said manufacturing apparatus.

9. A component and material traceability control program according to claim 5 that is a program for making a computer run a traceability control method.

10. A component and material traceability control program according to claim 6 that is a program for making a computer run a traceability control method.

11. A component and material traceability control program according to claim 7 that is a program for making a computer run a traceability control method.

12. A component and material traceability control program according to claim 8 that is a program for making a computer run a traceability control method.

13. A memory medium of a component and material traceability control program, wherein the program according to claim 9 is memorized in a computer-readable memory medium.

14. A memory medium of a component and material traceability control program, wherein the program according to claim 10 is memorized in a computer-readable memory medium.

15. A memory medium of a component and material traceability control program, wherein the program according to claim 11 is memorized in a computer-readable memory medium.

16. A memory medium of a component and material traceability control program, wherein the program according to claim 12 is memorized in a computer-readable memory medium.