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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1991
Kichie Matsuzaki, Yokohama, JP;
Kaoru Imai, Yamato, JP;
Hideaki Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Hideaki Matoba, Yokohama, JP;
Masahiro Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Hidetoshi Inaba, Sapporo, JP;
Hisashi Onari, Yokohama, JP;
Masahito Uno, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Mita, Yokohama, JP;
Ichiro Taniguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Koichi Sugimoto, Hiratsuka, JP;
Yoshio Matsumoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a manufacturing system which accepts a custom order of product from a customer and custom manufactures a product without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency. The manufacturing system includes the featuring steps of inputting the required specification of a product, creating the product design based on the design information of the product transmitted from a designing department, status data from the production department, and the input required specification, showing the created product design to the customer, selectively indicating a product to be purchased, transmitting the specification of the selected product to the production department, and producing a product based on the selected product specification.