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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yoshiyasu Takezawa, Okazaki, JP;
Hirotaka Todaka, Toyota, JP;
Takao Kiguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Chieko Sawada, Nagoya, JP;
Yosuke Tokuda, Toyota, JP;
Ayaka Kagami, Inazawa, JP;
Natsuki Sugiyama, Nisshin, JP;
Takuzo Hirano, Nagoya, JP;
Taichi Amakasu, Toyota, JP;
Seiei Hibino, Nagakute, JP;
Hiroshi Kawakami, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.