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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2010
Takahiro Nakano, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoichi Nonaka, Yokohama, JP;
Hisaya Ishibashi, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Nagahara, Yokohama, JP;
Takahiro Nakano, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoichi Nonaka, Yokohama, JP;
Hisaya Ishibashi, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Nagahara, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present teaching is intended to observe the delivery date of a product and decrease the number of workpieces in a merger process. A treatment sequence calculator included in manufacturing instruction equipment identifies an in-process part being worked in each process, and calculates the delivery-date allowance of the in-process part. In-process parts whose delivery-date allowances fall below a predetermined threshold are inputted to each process in ascending order of delivery-date allowances. In-process parts whose delivery-date allowances are equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold are inputted to each process in ascending order by a minimum value of remaining treatment times which the in-process parts take to reach the merger process.