Equipment management system, equipment management method and program

• US 8,626,610 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2010
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (Nippon Steel Corporation)
• Inventors: Kodama, Ichiro, Sato, Naoki, Shimono, Hirohide
• Primary Examiner(s): Pond, Rob
• Application Number:
  US12/998,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20110178895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27, 705/28
• US Class Current: 705/26.81
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

A shopping register creating part (111) creates shopping information including a purchase planned quantity of materials by each term based on an inventory standard master (110) in which inventory standard information at least including a lower limit amount of the material in the inventory is set and a maintenance calendar including a planned date of a maintenance work. A material order management part (112) accepts an order of a desired material from the shopping information in accordance with an operation of a user, then inputs a purchase result of the desired material. An inventory management purchase actual performance management part (113) updates an inventory management table managing a material quantity in the inventory based on the purchase result. An equipment master updating part (101) updates the inventory standard master (110) based on an updated result of the inventory management table.

Claims

1. An equipment management system, comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a storage, an input device and an output device, wherein the equipment management system is configured to:

create a maintenance calendar indicating a planned time of a maintenance work based on a maintenance standard master in which maintenance standard information at least including a maintenance cycle of the maintenance work is set;

prompt the maintenance work at the planned time of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

receive a result of the maintenance work and analyze a maintenance actual performance based on the inputted result of the maintenance work;

update the maintenance cycle set in the maintenance standard master based on analysis result;

create shopping information on a purchase planned quantity of materials by each term based on the planned date of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

accept an order of a desired material from the shopping information in accordance with an operation of a user;

receive a purchase result of the desired material;

update an inventory management table managing a quantity of the desired material in the inventory based on the purchase result; and

update a lower limit amount of the desired material in the inventory set in an inventory standard master based on the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table;

wherein, when the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table becomes equal to or less than the lower limit amount of the desired material, an order quantity of the desired material is added into the shopping information corresponding to the desired material.

2. The equipment management system according to claim 1, further configured to:

create an inspection calendar indicating a planned time of an inspection work based on an inspection standard master in which inspection standard information at least including an inspection cycle is set;

prompt the inspection work at a planned time of the inspection work set at the inspection calendar; and

receive a result of the inspection work and analyze the received result of the inspection work to determine whether or not there is a possibility that an abnormal state of an inspection target apparatus occurs,

wherein the maintenance calendar is updated with the inspection cycle set in the inspection standard master based on the analysis result of the inspection work.

3. An equipment management method achieved by an equipment management system,

the equipment management method comprising:

a maintenance calendar creating step of creating a maintenance calendar indicating a planned time of a maintenance work based on a maintenance standard master in which maintenance standard information at least including a maintenance cycle of the maintenance work is set;

a maintenance performance management step of prompting the maintenance work at a planned time of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

an analyzing step of inputting a result of the maintenance work and analyzing a maintenance actual performance based on the inputted result of the maintenance work;

an updating step of updating the maintenance cycle set in the maintenance standard master based on an analysis result by the analysis step;

a shopping information creating step of creating shopping information on a purchase planned quantity of materials by each term based on the planned date of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

an accepting step of accepting an order of a desired material from the shopping information in accordance with an operation of a user;

a purchase result input step of inputting a purchase result of the desired material;

an inventory management table updating step of updating an inventory management table managing a quantity of the desired material in the inventory based on the purchase result; and

an inventory standard master updating step of updating a lower limit amount of the desired material in the inventory set in an inventory standard master based on the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table;

wherein, when the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table becomes equal to or less than the lower limit amount of the desired material, in the shopping information creating step, an order quantity of the desired material is inputted into the shopping information corresponding to the desired material.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, the program having instructions for execution by a computer, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computer to execute:

a maintenance calendar creating step of creating a maintenance calendar indicating a planned time of a maintenance work based on a maintenance standard master in which maintenance standard information at least including a maintenance cycle of the maintenance work is set;

a maintenance performance management step of prompting the maintenance work at a planned time of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

an analysis step of inputting a result of the maintenance work and analyzing a maintenance actual performance based on the inputted result of the maintenance work;

an updating step of updating the maintenance cycle set in the maintenance standard master based on an analysis result by the analysis step;

a shopping information creating step of creating shopping information on a purchase planned quantity of materials by each term based on the planned date of the maintenance work set at the maintenance calendar;

an accepting step of accepting an order of a desired material from the shopping information in accordance with an operation of a user;

a purchase result input step of inputting a purchase result of the desired material;

an inventory management table updating step of updating an inventory management table managing a quantity of the desired material in the inventory based on the purchase result; and

an inventory standard master updating step of updating a lower limit amount of the desired material in the inventory set in an inventory standard master based on the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table;

wherein, when the quantity of the desired material managed by the inventory management table becomes equal to or less than the lower limit amount of the desired material, in the shopping information creating step, an order quantity of the desired material is inputted into the shopping information corresponding to the desired material.