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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2019
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Fukuda, Tokyo, JP;
Yuuichi Suginishi, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A production plan supporting apparatus and method capable of effectively supporting making of a production plan for a product whose production process has a branch(es). According to the production plan supporting apparatus and method when sequentially inputting a work(s) on a production unit basis to a production process in accordance with a predetermined input plan, first models regarding each of which probability of existence of the work in each time slot of each process is calculated are generated for respective production units, and a second model in which all the generated first models for the respective production units are stacked over one another is generated; and the time slot of the process which will become a bottleneck is identified and displayed on the basis of the second model.