Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Yoshio Ohno

Yasuyuki Kimura

Keiko Morii

Katura Torii

Makiko Watanabe

Hideaki Ohashi

Seiji Adachi

Toshiyuki Sato

Tetsuji Nagai

A market-demand-forecasting-value calculation section acquires order entry actual achievement data from an order-entry-actual-achievement-data storing unit of an order receiving system, and calculates a market demand forecasting value using the order entry actual achievement data. A correction safety inventory quantity calculation section calculates an error rate, which becomes negative when an ordering required-quantity becomes large, based on a number of ordered parts and a past ordering required-quantity. Subsequently, the correction safety inventory quantity calculation section calculates a correction safety inventory quantity using the error rate and the market demand forecasting value and a money-amount-zone index value. Further, the correction safety inventory quantity calculation section calculates a determined safety inventory quantity which is a value obtained by adding the correction safety inventory quantity and a reference safety inventory quantity calculated based on the market demand forecasting value.

Inventory management system, inventory management method and computer-readable recording medium

A controlling unit of a replacement part management server specifies a maintenance target equipment and acquires order conditions from a responsible personnel terminal. The controlling unit acquires maintenance information and part information both relating to the maintenance target equipment. The controlling unit calculates prediction residual regarding target parts of an initial value setting process, and compares the prediction residual with the shortest cycle. When the prediction residual is smaller than the shortest cycle, the controlling unit sets the number of replacements in the part order data storing unit. When an initial value setting process regarding all the parts is completed, an order input screen is output. When an order request is received from the responsible personnel terminal, an order management server acquires part order data and transmits a preparation instruction of a PM kit to the purchaser.

Replacement part order processing apparatus, method for ordering replacement parts and computer-readable recording medium

An acoustic analysis unit acoustically analyzes a first utterance by a user. A pattern by-characteristic selection unit selects a trained pattern optimal for the user's utterance from a plurality of trained patterns that are previously classified and stored every characteristic. A speaker adaptation processor determines a spectral frequency distortion coefficient for correcting difference between spectral frequencies. The difference is caused by vocal tract length of a training speaker and an input speaker. Recognition of subsequent utterances using this determination improves recognition performance of the subsequent speech sounds.

Method for speech recognition, apparatus for the same, and voice controller

A production line has a plurality of working groups in which work operations are controlled by a sequential controller. Detectors are provided in each working group of the production line to output signals to a microcomputer. The microcomputer makes sequence patterns for each working group based on data comprised by the signals from the detectors with respect to the order of outputting and the time intervals of the signals. During monitoring, the microcomputer compares signals from the detectors with the corresponding sequence pattern for each working group to monitor the working conditions of the working groups.

Method of sequential monitoring and apparatus for practicing the same

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