Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kazuhiko Nishimura

Akinori Hongu

Hideki Shimada

Kazuhito Haruki

Miho Takahashi

Supplier-specific data of material items are extracted from data of various material items used for the manufacture of a product. Tabular data having a structure that allows various pieces of environment consideration condition information about the extracted data to be input is created by using general-purpose spreadsheet software. The tabular data is laid out to locate an item whose contents are likely to change at an end of a table so as to minimize a change in data structure in the event of a change in contents of environment consideration condition items. The tabular data is provided to the supplier. Environment consideration condition information about each material item is acquired by using the tabular data containing the environment consideration condition information added to the tabular data on the supplier side.

Method of acquiring environment consideration condition information

A document editing apparatus is provided, which can perform a linking process after checking the entire correspondence between sentences in an existing document which are to be copied and portions in a currently edited document in which the sentences are to be inserted, thereby preventing editing errors and improving the editing efficiency. The apparatus includes a source document segmenting device for segmenting the source document in accordance with its structure, an editing document segmenting device for segmenting the editing document in accordance with its structure, a table display device for displaying a link relation control table indicating the structural correspondence between the two documents by using the start character strings of the segmented portions, a linking designation device for executing designation of linking on the displayed table, a linking designation display device for marking a combination for which linking designation is performed on the table to discriminate the combination, and a document linking processor for performing a linking process for the marked combination to link the designated sentence in the source document with the designated portion in the editing document.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kazuhiko Nishimura