Seiko Epson Corporation

Juliet Chen

Atsushi Kobayashi

Shinya Yamagata

Kiyoshi Mukaiyama

Steven Chen

Yoshiyuki Aido

Eiichiro Furihata

Yoshihiro Hodozuka

Daisuke Osanai

Yoshito Tazawa

Eva Lee

Tsuyoshi Yokota

Lorenzo Lee

Yoichi Nishimura

Lawrence Chuang

An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.

Liquid supplying and collecting apparatus

In a manufacturing process management system, each of input terminalstolocated respectively in multiple manufacturing processes of a process flow with regard to a preset product reads a barcodeattached to a targetand inputs a start of processing with regard to the product. The manufacturing process management systemmaps the product to a processing status and stores the mapping into a database. In response to input of an acquisition request of the processing status with regard to the product from a client PC, the manufacturing process management systemreads the processing status according to the acquisition request from the database, creates a response message, and outputs the created response message to the client PC. This manufacturing process management system enables a current location of the preset product to be readily managed in the process flow of the multiple manufacturing processes.

Process management systems and methods of the same

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