Hitachi, Ltd.

Noriyasu Ninagawa

Yuzo Hiroshige

Noriaki Yamamoto

Masataka Tanaka

Yasuhiro Hamatsuka

Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise. The method accepts the products to inspect a situation in compliance with the restriction and an evaluation subject restriction that are inputted by a user; acquires a threshold value of the chemical substance content rate for every subject substance under the restriction, composing components of the subject product, weight and a category of the components, and chemical substance content rates of the components; extracts components with no information on the chemical substance content rates out of the components; searches similar components with the same categories as those of the extracted components; acquires chemical substance content rates of the similar components; allocates statistic values, such as the maximum value or average value of the chemical substance content rates of the similar components to chemical substance content rates of the extracted components; calculates a chemical substance content rate of the product from the information on the composing components of the product, the weight of the components and the chemical substance content rates of the components or similar components; compares the chemical substance content rate of the extracted product with the threshold value; categorizes the chemical substances into the one that exceeds the threshold value and the other that does not exceed the threshold value as a comparison result; stores the categorized data at the memory device; and displays the comparison result on a display device.

System and method for supporting selection of subject for restriction countermeasure

The present invention calculates a predicted accumulative import amount for each chemical substance for each month by using information on a predicted monthly shipping amount and the amount of a chemical substance contained in the product and specifies the chemical substance whose predicted accumulative import amount exceeds a regulation threshold and the time when the import amount exceeds the regulation threshold. The present invention specifies the product containing the chemical substance, calculates the predicted shipping amount of the product from the threshold excess time of the chemical substance to the end of the year, and calculates the loss amount caused by the loss of sales opportunities from the profit per unit sales amount for each product when any regulation measures are not executed on the chemical substance. The present invention finally calculates the ratio of the expense necessary for the measures and the summed value, and displays the ratio.

Execution decision support program and device of regulation measures

The present invention provides a system which is capable of supporting a designer in confirming constituent information of a component at early stages of design. The system has a functional configuration, in which constituents contained in a target component and a content of each of the constituents are calculated referring to a constituent information table based on identification information of the target component. Conformity of the constituent to environmental regulations is evaluated based on the content. A component similar to the target component is extracted referring to an environmental qualification information table to calculate constituents contained in the similar component and a content of each of the constituents; and credibility of evaluation of the conformity to environmental regulations is evaluated based on a difference between the content of the constituent in the target component and the content of the constituent in the similar component.

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Kamakura, Japan

Noriyasu Ninagawa