Administration planning system

• US 7,139,735 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2003
• Issued: 11/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chugoku Electric Power Company Incorporated, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Chugoku Electric Power Company Incorporated, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirai, Kenji, Ohno, Hiroaki, Shiromaru, Isao
• Primary Examiner(s): Kazimi, Hani M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alpert, James M.
• Application Number:
  US10/407,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20030225664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,324 Days
• Field of Search: 705/7, 705/8, 705/38
• US Class Current: 705/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

A system for preparing an administration plan using a computer, includes an inputting function, a risk calculating function, an optimizing function, and an outputting function. The optimizing function prepares the administration plan by optimizing and adjusting distribution between investment levels in investment items and the risk levels for a planning term.

Claims

1. An administration planning system for preparing an administration plan for operating and maintaining a facility producing goods or services, using a computer, the administration planning system comprising:

an inputting function inputting a planning term and plural investment items operating in a facility producing goods or services, and inputting investment levels, related to inspection and maintenance of each of the investment items, for each of the investment items for the planning term;

a risk calculating function calculating failure risk levels for each of the investment items based on a correlation between the investment level for each of the investment items and a failure risk percentage corresponding to the investment level;

an optimizing function preparing the administration plan, the administration plan including optimized investment levels and optimized failure risk levels by optimizing and adjusting distributions of the investment levels of the investment items and of the failure risk levels calculated by the failure risk calculating function for the planning term, wherein the optimizing function repeats, n times, an optimizing step including

calculating neighborhood solutions for an initial solution set by a first optimum solution to minimize the sum of total investment of the investment levels and total failure risk of the failure risk levels, and

selecting a second optimum solution from a group comprising the initial solution and the neighborhood solutions to minimize the sum of the total investment and the total failure risk, wherein the optimizing function prepares the administration plan, based on the second optimum solution selected in the nth repetition of the optimizing step; and

an outputting function outputting the optimized investment level and the optimized failure risk level for each of the investment items based on the administration plan prepared by the optimizing function.

2. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein

each of the investment items is divided into an upper hierarchy and a lower hierarchy, and the optimizing function prepares the administration plan to have an upper administration plan including upper optimized investment levels and upper optimized failure risk levels corresponding to each investment item of the upper hierarchy, and a lower administration plan including lower optimized investment levels and lower optimized failure risk levels corresponding to each investment item of the lower hierarchy, and

the upper administration plan is used as a constraining condition in the optimizing function for preparing the lower administration plan.

3. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein each of the investment items is divided into an upper hierarchy and a lower hierarchy, and the failure risk percentage in each investment item of the upper hierarchy is calculated by using the risk failure percentage in each investment item of the lower hierarchy.

4. The administration planning system according to claim 3, wherein, in construction of the upper hierarchy and the lower hierarchy, each of the investment items in each of the upper and lower hierarchies is represented as a block diagram and respective optimized failure risk levels are outputted by the outputting function.

5. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein

individual data of past investment level and the failure risk percentage corresponding to each investment item are inputted by the inputting function, and

correlation between the past investment level and the past failure risk percentage is calculated statistically.

6. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein the distribution of the investment levels and the failure risk levels is optimized and adjusted to prepare the administration plan by constraining at least one of the investment levels and the failure risk levels, arbitrarily.

7. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein the administration plan is prepared by weighting at least one of the investment levels and the failure risk levels for each of the investment items, and by optimizing and adjusting the distribution of the investment levels and the failure risk levels by the weighting.

8. The administration planning system according to claim 1, further comprising a retrieving function retrieving a past administration plan example similar to a combination of the investment items and the planning term, wherein the administration plan is prepared by bringing the distribution of the investment levels and the failure risk levels of the past administration plan example into an initial state and by optimizing and adjusting a combination of the distribution of the investment levels and the failure risk levels from the initial state.

9. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein the calculating procedure for optimizing the distribution of the investment levels and of the failure risk levels by the optimizing function is outputted by the outputting function.

10. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein correlation between the investment level and the failure risk level is diagrammed and outputted by the outputting function.

11. The administration planning system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acquisition function for acquiring data at a predetermined period from a data managing system and for storing at least data of the failure risk percentage;

an extracting function extracting the administration plan, which has to be re-calculated, automatically if the data of the failure risk percentage are altered;

an executive function preparing the optimum administration plan based on the value of the data of the failure risk percentage altered with respect to the administration plan extracted; and

a supplying function supplying a detailed cost management system for calculating investment costs when a total expense is given, with automatically altered data when the investment obtained as the optimum solution of the administration plan is altered.

12. The administration planning system according to claim 1, further comprising a result index calculating function calculating business index data for the planning term depending on at least market prediction data constructed of business income, busines expenses, and the investment levels of the administration plan prepared by the optimizing function.

13. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein

a first investment level, defining relationship of a rise of the failure risk percentage for continuation of each investment, and a second investment level, defining a relationship to a fall of the failure risk percentage, before and after each of investments, are inputted to each of investment items, and

the optimizing function includes a calculation function calculating optimized combination levels to minimize the sum of an investment sum and a failure risk sum for the planning term, from combinations of the first investment level and the second investment level.

14. The administration planning system according to claim 6, wherein the optimizing function includes a calculation function calculating an expense against a constraint based on a difference from an upper limit and a lower limit determined by the constraining, when at least one of constraint of the investment level and constraint of the failure risk level is not satisfied.

15. The administration planning system according to claim 1, wherein the optimizing function includes a calculation function calculating a combination of investment levels for minimizing total expense, by using the taboo searching method.