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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2021
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Naohiro Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Daiki Kajita, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A line designing device including a calculation unit and a storage unit, in which the storage unit holds facility information indicating a specification of each module, process design information indicating a component for manufacturing a product, work on the component, and a module used for the work, standard module information indicating a type of each of the modules and another module attachable thereto, and inter-module connection information indicating a connection specification between the modules, the module includes at least one of a facility and a device used for the work, and the calculation unit generates line configuration information identifying the module constituting a manufacturing line for manufacturing the product and connection between the modules based on the facility information, the process design information, the standard module information, and the inter-module connection information, and outputs information indicating a module constituting the manufacturing line and connection between the modules based on the line configuration information.