Hitachi, Ltd.

Hisashi Onari

Masahiro Watanabe

Hideaki Matoba

Kichie Matsuzaki

Kazuhiro Sugino

Hideaki Suzuki

Hidetoshi Inaba

Kunihiko Nishi

Tsutomu Takahashi

Junichi Saeki

Koichi Sugimoto

Toshijiro Ohashi

Yoshio Matsumoto

Shingo Akasaka

Keiichi Okamoto

Mitsuharu Hayakawa

Toru Mita

Masahito Uno

Tadamasa Kamikubo

Ichiro Taniguchi

Hiroshi Makita

Kaoru Imai

Wakako Oguruma

Roberto Kishikawa

Hiroshi Kitazawa

Noboru Tsuchiya

A development support system for supporting new product development activities including designing, manufacturing experimental models and testing the functions of the experimental models and for providing an environment for the cooperative activities of a plurality of members of a development project team has a model storage for storing product models, resource models of resources to be used for product development and product development activity models; a target storage for storing target values of schedules of product development, and the cost and the performance of the product; an estimating unit for estimating schedules of product development and the cost and the performance of the product on the basis of the models stored in the model storage; a support unit for support the operations of the members of the development project team for making reference to the models, the target values and the estimated values, and changing and particularizing the models, the target values and the estimated values; a notifying unit for deciding, when each model is changed or particularized, whether or not the estimated values meet the corresponding target values and, when the estimated values do not meet the corresponding target values, for notifying the members of the development project team to that effects; and a unit for monitoring electronic mail necessary for carrying out tasks essential to the development of the product, extracting information relating to the progress of tasks essential to carrying out the development of the product, and providing the members of the development project team with information about the progress of the tasks.

Development support system

In an information processing systems a procedure to be processed is divided into a plurality of basic processing units and those basic processing units are stored in the system. The system further creates and stores processing unit information for each of the stored basic processing units, the processing unit information including a name of processing executed in each processing unit, an input table required by the processing unit, and an output table outputted by the processing unit. When an operator inputs data about a desired output table format, the information processing system selects the most suitable processing unit information (knowledge) compatible with the desired output table format. From the selected processing unit information, the other relevant processing unit information is selected. By repeating a similar flow, the system traces back the flow of the processing from the output table for searching the processing unit information group. Then, the system connects the processing units related to the searched processing unit information group in the sequence of the processing flow for the purpose of building a desired procedure. The searching and building process is indicated to the operator so that the operator can change a parameter and/or re-build the procedure, if necessary.

Information processing system for obtaining desired processing based

The present invention relates to a manufacturing system which accepts a custom order of product from a customer and custom manufactures a product without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency. The manufacturing system includes the featuring steps of inputting the required specification of a product, creating the product design based on the design information of the product transmitted from a designing department, status data from the production department, and the input required specification, showing the created product design to the customer, selectively indicating a product to be purchased, transmitting the specification of the selected product to the production department, and producing a product based on the selected product specification.

Custom-made manufacturing system and custom-made manufacturing method

Order entry apparatus for automatic estimation a transformation model comprising a pattern composed of a plurality of parameters representing custom product specifications, production line conditions and factors for composing the estimates for production cost and completion date. The parameters of this transformation model are specified by learning, leading to estimation for the requested product specifications, in broad consideration of conditions such as those of the production line. The use of a neural network model as this pattern transformation model makes pattern transformation more flexible and pattern learning more efficient. Estimation accuracy is also increased by entering values of predicted charges in production line conditions such as loads or stock obtained from resource requirements planning, process design, capacity requirements planning, etc.

Order entry apparatus for automatic estimation and its method

A manufacturing planning system has lead time estimating function, MRP executing function, work demand calculating function, problem analyzing function, capacity adjusting function, product completion data adjusting function, and alternative shop designating function for planning a production schedule by calculating successively lead time in consideration of amount of work demanded and capacity for production, analyzing problems in the production schedule and performing relevant adjustments for solving the problems. An on-line display function is provided for simultaneous display of the problems and load/capacity states of production shops in association with solution of the problems and various adjustment together with the results thereof.

Manufacturing planning system

System and method of designing and developing table translation software in which an operation is performed on input data provided in the form of tables, and data resulting from the operation is also provided in the form of tables. The system includes an item input section for inputting items representative of attributes of data, a relation input section for inputting inter-item relations for the inputted items, an item and relation managing section for holding and supplying the inputted items and inter-item relations thereof, and a relation indicating section for indicating the items and the inter-item relations thereof held by the item and relation managing section. Software is designed and developed with the functions of the software being handled as translation processes of the tables.

Software structuring system and method by data table translation

The present invention is applied to the design of a mold for a semiconductor or the like and provides a method for synthesizing analysis models, in which analysis programs corresponding to shapes and features of an object to be analyzed are registered in advance in a numerical analysis system, the analysis programs are made to correspond to partial shapes divided according to the shapes and features of the object to be analyzed and are partially modelled, whereas input and output items between adjacent portions are controlled on the basis of the positional relationship between the portions and input and output information of the analysis programs placed in correspondence to the portions. The invention further provides a flow analysis system for computing a flow state of material to evaluate a shape of a flowpassage, a flow control condition, material and the like, the system comprising input means for inputting a flowpassage shape of a mold, properties of material and flow control conditions, model synthesizing means for extracting a feature of the flowpassage shape, judging an adaptability with the already registered analysis model from the extracted features and synthesizing flow analysis models capable of analyzing the entire flowpassage, and program execution means for removing programs corresponding to the synthesized model to sequentially execute them.

Method for synthesizing analysis model and flow analysis system

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Yokohama, Japan

Hisashi Onari