Hitachi, Ltd.

Kimitaka Tamura

Mitsuhiro Enomoto

Yoshifumi Yamashita

Jun Tateishi

Hiromitsu Moriyama

Masao Kawai

A system and method for generating disassembly, procurement and production plans dealing with recyclable parts and products are provided. Production demand information on products to be manufactured, collection schedule information on individual used products and recyclable part table on recyclable parts contained in the used products are stored in memory; recyclable part availability information is generated by referring to the collection schedule information and the recyclable part table; and by referring to the production demand information and the recyclable part availability information, a disassembly plan on the recyclable parts is created based on the production demand. Further, the production demand information and the recyclable part availability information are referenced to generate a procurement plan on parts and materials that cannot be fully supplied from available, recyclable parts alone. Based on the disassembly and procurement plans, a production plan is created.

Method and system for planning disassembly and production of recyclable products and for planning procurement of parts for production

Sub-areas divided from a three-dimensional areas to be analyzed are generated by hexahedron meshes as much as possible, and for the sub-areas not formed by the hexahedron elements, tetrahedron meshes are generated by a tetrahedron mesh generation unit. For the mesh generation of the sub-area adjacent to the hexahedron mesh area and the tetrahedron mesh area, the data of other sub-area for which the mesh has been generated which is adjacent to the sub-area for which the mesh is to be generated is searched from a sub-area data area and a mesh shape formed by a plurality of triangles on the surface of the area for which the mesh is to be generated from the mesh shape on the joining plane to the adjacent sub-area to generate a quadrilateral mesh in the area for which the mesh is to be generated.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kimitaka Tamura