Makino Milling Machine Company, Ltd

Knowledge on Demand Co., Ltd.

Kayoko Ichimura

Yoshio Hashimoto

Toshio Arai

Tomofumi Nagatomo

Ryosuke Togashi

A document creating device (): creates a common document () serving as a template for creating a derived document (), and a difference document () including a region () in which an element () different from elements () in the common document is embedded, and an empty region (); and generates the derived document () from the common document by replacing the elements in the common document with elements in the corresponding region of the difference document.

Document creation device

This document creation device () divides common sections of documents of a plurality of diverse specifications into unit documents (), manages and shares the unit documents, groups similar unit documents () and manages and stores the similar unit documents, couples unit documents to a set serving as one edited document on the basis of an edited document configuration (), which is a list of unit documents coupling to the edited document, or couples the unit documents to an electronic file of one edited document, wherein, during said coupling, rewriting is performed such that, when referring to a group in which the content embedded in the unit documents is a set of unit documents, a document which belongs to the referenced group and which is included in the edited document configuration is referred to.

An electronic manual for a machine tool for displaying information related to operation, maintenance, or inspection of the machine tool, which is necessary for an operator, includes an operator-operated input part for inputting search conditions to search the electronic manual in accordance with intent of the operator in order to obtain necessary information, a machine-operated input part for selecting and inputting at least one item provided to the operator from the machine tool depending on a status of the machine tool, and a display part for displaying information related to operation, maintenance, or inspection of the machine tool corresponding to the input from the operator-operated input part or the machine-operated input part.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Kayoko Ichimura