Hitachi, Ltd.

Tomotoshi Ishida

Shunsuke Minami

Yasumasa Kawashima

Yoshiaki Shinotsuka

Shiro Nonaka

Kunio Kumamoto

Yuya Tokuda

Miyako Hotta

Takeo Yamada

Shigeru Arai

Kohhei Aida

Hiroshi Arai

Norihiro Nakajima

Kumiko Itoh

Masahiro Kawasaki

Makoto Ono

Hiroshi Sasaki

Yoshiaki Ichikawa

Munetoshi Unuma

Shinichi Taniguchi

Ichiro Harashima

Yasuhiko Tada

Noriyuki Haga

Yoshihiro Murakami

Yuuichi Suginishi

Hisaya Ishibashi

Koji Shiroyama

Yoshiaki Usami

Kenichi Anjyo

Yoshinari Hori

Toshiaki Yoshinaga

Youichi Nonaka

Takaharu Matsui

Shinji Tokumasu

Misato Nio

Yoshiko Tanaka

Motomi Odamura

Junichi Hamano

Attila Lengyel

Kumiko Ito

Yoshio Kunitomo

Naoyuki Honda

Mutsuo Kantou

An object of the invention is to efficiently create a 3D model of a plant with attributes from a 3D model of a plant with no attributes. In order to solve the above problems, in the invention, a connection information conversion partconverts a connection relationship of parts extracted from a 3D model with no attributesinto connection information of a system diagram, an extraction information comparing partcompares the connection information with the connection relationship extracted from an attribute system diagram to create an conversion correspondence DB, and a 3D model with attributesis created based on the conversion correspondence DB from the 3D model with no attributes

3D model creation support system and 3D model creation support method

To address the problem of providing a temperature history indicator capable of specifying a time when a temperature deviated from a set temperature range, a temperature history indicator according to the present invention is characterized in being provided with a substrate and temperature indicators that irreversibly change color upon deviation from a set temperature range, and in that a plurality of the temperature indicators are provided on the substrate, the temperatures at which the temperature indicators change color a within &#xb1;2&#xb0; C. of each other, and the temperature indicators change color after different amounts of time from deviation from the set temperature range.

Temperature traceable indicator and article quality management method using same

Provided is means for obtaining required data, despite there being only one kind of reading device or one kind of reading method for a plurality of item types. The present invention comprises: means for reading a barcode and a change-in-environment part; means for extracting, from the barcode which has been read, data pertaining to the change-in-environment part; and means for recognizing change-in-environment data on the basis of the data pertaining to the change-in-environment part. Further, an item has a change-in-environment part and a barcode which contains the data relating to the change-in-environment part.

Item having barcode, data processing device, data processing method, and merchandise quality management method

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an environment history display object whereby a storage environment history including time can easily be grasped. In order to solve the above problem, the environment history display object pertaining to the present invention is capable of determining the presence/absence of deviation from a management environment, and is characterized by being provided with a plurality of display parts having a plurality of marks for irreversibly changing color upon leaving a set environment range, the times taken for the plurality of marks to change color after leaving the environment range being mutually different, and the environment range being different for each display part.

Environment history display object, data processing method using same, data processing device, and quality management method

The purpose of the present invention is to enable a machine-read mark to also determine, with high probability, a management state to be normal when a visual mark has determined the management state to be normal, in cases when the visual mark and the machine-read mark, which are provided with a sensor function for detecting an abnormality in the same management state, are present on one product, even if there is variation in the quality of the marks. At least two barcodes or marks for managing the safety of one and the same product are provided. The barcodes and marks are provided with a function with which the safety of the product is confirmed as a result of a change in a property thereof, such as the color or shape, caused by an external factor that may reduce the safety of the product. The at least two barcodes or marks are provided with the function with which the safety of the product is confirmed as a result of a change in a property thereof caused by the same external factor. The at least two barcodes or marks having properties which change as a result of the same external factor are provided with at least two threshold values which determine that the safety of the same product has reduced.

Sensor-function-equipped display, article, packaging material, and quality management method

A device for processing placement data according to the present invention is provided with an article data memory unit that stores article data including a configuration and a storage period of an article, a storage-region data memory unit that stores storage region data including a shape of a storage region where the article is placed, a temporal-spatial map data memory unit that stores temporal-spatial map data showing positions of the article and the storage region in space-time specified by a user, and a computation device that creates the temporal-spatial map data and acquires a placement position of the article in time series in the storage region using the article data, the storage region data and the temporal-spatial map data.

Device and method for processing placement data, and method for loading and unloading article

The disclosed invention provides a technique that assists in selecting a proper standard part independently of production achievements of parts and information which is arbitrarily input by a user regarding specification items to decide on a similarity between parts. Disclosed is a products information management assistance apparatus that decides on standard part information based on past products information records. The apparatus includes a products information storing unit that stores information on parts registered in records such as required specifications in the past, parts organization, parts specifications, and cost; a similarity-between-parts calculating unit that calculates a similarity between parts registered in records from parts specifications, a parts standardization effect calculating unit that calculates an effect if the above parts have been standardized in a scope in which they are grouped by similarity; and a standardization analysis result display unit that displays the parts standardization scope and standardization effect together.

Products information management assistance apparatus

Disclosed are a device, a system, and a method for setting standard work times that take real-world manufacturing capabilities into account. Provided is a standard work time calculation device (), which analyzes fluctuations in production line assessment indices on a per time period basis, and computes standard work times for each region, as classified according to the degree of fluctuation. The standard work time calculation device () comprises a fluctuation coefficient computation unit (), which computes coefficients of fluctuation for the assessment indices, a fluctuation region identification unit (), which identifies regions of fluctuation with coefficients of fluctuation that are greater than or equal to predetermined thresholds, and a standard work time computation unit (), which computes standard work times for regions of fluctuation.

Device for calculating standard work time, system for managing standard work time, method for calculating standard work time, and program thereof

A data retrieving apparatus having: an input apparatus for inputting the hierarchical structure data showing the hierarchical structure and operation instruction data; a data storing apparatus for storing the inputted hierarchical structure data; a retrieving apparatus for retrieving data which satisfies conditions from the hierarchical structure data stored in the data storing apparatus on the basis of the operation instruction data which is inputted by the input apparatus; and an output apparatus for outputting the retrieved data. Each data which is stored in the data storing apparatus has items regarding an efficient date and items regarding a data change date. The retrieving apparatus has an apparatus for retrieving the data on the basis of the efficient date and the data change date.

Retrieving apparatus, retrieving method, and retrieving program of hierarchical structure data

An evaluation implementation of an environmental load includes a design plan information comparing part for extracting a difference in parts structure, material, or process between a plurality of product design plans stored in a design plan information storing part, an environmental load evaluation value comparing part for calculating a difference in environmental load evaluation value between a plurality of product design plans, from which differences in parts structure, material, or process have been extracted by the design plan information comparing means part, using the environmental load evaluation value comparing part, and a display part for displaying the difference in parts structure, material, or process between the plurality of product design plans calculated by the design plan information comparing part, and the differences in the environmental load evaluation values calculated by the design plan comparing part using the environmental load evaluation value comparing part.

Evaluation implement of environmental load and evaluation program of environmental load

An apparatus and method for quickly retrieving and outputting assemblies or subassemblies similar to a target assembly or subassembly for similar determination are provided. Data concerning assemblies, and the subassemblies and parts contained in the assemblies is retrieved from a product structure data storage device; hierarchical structures of the assemblies and subassemblies are detected; similarity is calculated for all the combinations of the assemblies and subassemblies based on the detected hierarchical structures; and the hierarchical structures of the assemblies and subassemblies and similarity for each combination of assemblies and subassemblies are stored in a similar data storage device. When a target assembly or subassembly for similarity determination is inputted via an input device, assemblies or subassemblies similar to the target assembly or subassembly are retrieved from the similar data storage device, and the retrieved assemblies and subassemblies are displayed on a display device.

Apparatus and method for searching data for a similar article

The design/manufacture support system has a self company/correspondent parts number correspondence storing unit for storing the correspondence between parts numbers of self company and correspondent parts, a self company parts bill storage unit for storing a structure of parts of a self company product, a correspondent parts bill storage unit for storing a structure of parts purchased from a correspondent, a representative part creation unit for creating a representative part from the correspondence between self company and correspondent parts numbers stored in the self company/correspondent parts number correspondence storing unit, and a parts bill creation unit for creating a parts bill from the representative part created by the representative part creation unit, the self company parts bill stored in the self company parts bill storage unit and the correspondent parts bill stored in the correspondent parts bill storage unit.

Design and manufacture aiding apparatus and method

An apparatus and method for producing an exploded view of an assembly. The invention includes an input unit, a geometrical data memory for storing geometrical data of parts composing an assembly, a/m for storing assembling process data composed of parts to be attached and attaching directions, a calculating unit for displaying the assembly to a display based on geometrical data, and apparatus for determining arranged positions of the parts in a disassembled state based on assembling process data and geometrical data, thereby producing an exploded view of the display corresponding to the arranged positions.

Apparatus for producing exploded view and animation of assembling, and method thereof

An apparatus and method for producing an exploded view of an assembly. The invention includes an input unit, a geometrical data memory for storing geometrical data of parts composing an assembly, a memory for storing assembling process data composed of parts to be attached and attaching directions, a calculating unit for displaying the assembly to a display based on geometrical data, and apparatus for determining arranged positions of the parts in a disassembled state based on assembling process data and geometrical data, thereby producing an exploded view on the display corresponding to the arranged positions.

An apparatus for producing an exploded view has an input unit, a geometrical data memory for storing geometrical data of parts composing an assembly, a memory for storing assembling process data composed of part to be attached data and attaching direction data a calculating unit for generating the assembly for a display unit based on the geometrical data, and means for determining arranged positions of the parts composing said assembly in a disassembled state based on assembling process data and the geometrical data, thereby an exploded view being displayed in the display unit corresponding to the arranged positions is determined. An apparatus for producing animation of assembling comprises a geometrical data memory for storing geometries of parts composing an assembly, an attaching procedure data memory for storing attaching procedures composed of attaching orders, part to be attached data and attaching direction data, a jointing data memory for storing jointing data composed of part to be attached data and jointing method data, a table for special jointing operation memory for storing a table for special jointing operation composed of jointing method data and operation data special for the jointing method data, and operating data producing means for producing operating data for part to be attached as an input parameter to an animation display function using the geometrical data in the geometrical data memory, the attaching procedure data in the attaching procedure data memory, the jointing data in the jointing data memory, and the table for special jointing operation in the table for special jointing operation memory.

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Tomotoshi Ishida