Masdac Co., Ltd.

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Teruo Kawese

A system for online maintenance of a manufacturing apparatus, for shortening manufacturing apparatus maintenance time, including a user's data accumulator sorting information from the manufacturing apparatus into normal apparatus-management information and urgency information that is promptly sent by email to a maintenance apparatus and to relevant terminals. The system includes (1) a production line including a gateway, a manufacturing apparatus, and a data accumulator, the latter two connected to the gateway; and (2) a maintenance apparatus including a gateway server, a server, and a diagnostic device, the latter two connected to the gateway server. The data accumulator includes a data-gathering unit for accumulating manufacturing apparatus operation data, and a data-evaluation unit for determining whether there is an urgency regarding the accumulated data. If the data-evaluation unit determines that the operation data shows an abnormality and that there is an urgency, it sends an urgency-information email message to the mail server.

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Hashimoto