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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Tadashi Nishida, Omiya Shinshiro, JP;
Minoru Kondo, Toyokawa, JP;
Kazuya Nishikore, Toyokawa, JP;
Masataka Shiraki, Toyokawa, JP;
Sintokogio, Ltd., Aichi Prefecture, JP;
Abstract
A method and system is provided to determine or estimate components that may have to be maintained before a molding system that has those components is caused to be stopped by problems with those components. Cycle times that each correspond to the time of the cycle of each operation of the molding system and operation times of the steps performed by the components, which operation times affect the cycle times, are measured and stored. Based on the sum of the operation times that exceed a predetermined time or the sum of the number of operation times that exceed the predetermined time, any step that may cause a problem among the steps of the components, which affect the cycle time, is determined.