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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2018
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Katsumata, Tokyo, JP;
Takafumi Chida, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The production line configuration change system includes: an error information storage unit that stores information of an error which occurs in equipment on a production line; a work information storage unit that stores work contents required for manufacturing a product; an equipment information storage unit that stores constraint information of a tool mountable on the equipment; a production line configuration information storage unit that, in order of manufacturing processes of the product, stores a work content, work assignment equipment, a tool mounted on the equipment, and a process tact time in each of the manufacturing processes; and a production line configuration calculation unit that is activated immediately after the error occurs, prepares a change plan of assigning a work assigned to the equipment in which the error occurs to the equipment before or after the process or another equipment of the identical process and calculates a provisional production line configuration.