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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2000
Akinori Hongu, Fujisawa, JP;
Kazuhito Haruki, Yokohama, JP;
Miho Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Shimada, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuhiko Nishimura, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
Supplier-specific data of material items are extracted from data of various material items used for the manufacture of a product. Tabular data having a structure that allows various pieces of environment consideration condition information about the extracted data to be input is created by using general-purpose spreadsheet software. The tabular data is laid out to locate an item whose contents are likely to change at an end of a table so as to minimize a change in data structure in the event of a change in contents of environment consideration condition items. The tabular data is provided to the supplier. Environment consideration condition information about each material item is acquired by using the tabular data containing the environment consideration condition information added to the tabular data on the supplier side.