JP2000148211A - Operation movement system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the system which can accurately and efficiently move operation between production lines. SOLUTION: When the operation is moved from a movement-source production line 1 to a movement-destination production line 9 through a network or removal media 8, the operation can accurately and efficiently be moved between the production lines not only by transferring actual data, but also by sending the kind of the operation in the movement-source production line and the progress state of the operation to the work flow management server 13 of the movement-destination production line and using them.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a work transfer system between a plurality of production lines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the development of computer technology and network technology, for example, at a printing plate making site, it is becoming common to manage actual data such as necessary image data on a computer. Once digitized data can be moved to a different department via a network or removable media such as a magneto-optical disk (MO).

[0005] In addition to actual data management, computer-based work flow management has also started to be performed. The server computer stores workflow management information (such as the flow of each work that must actually be performed on the production line and the progress of each work), receives a report each time a work is completed, and updates that information. Have a mechanism to do. As a result, it is possible to grasp the progress of the work at any time and to automatically present a high-priority work to the operator from the work that can be performed.

[0004]

However, for some reason such as trouble (for example, failure of production equipment) or load concentration (for example, unexpected increase in the amount of work), the work that has been performed halfway on a certain production line has to be performed. If it is necessary to continue the process on a different production line, the conventional technology only moves the actual data such as an image. For this reason, in order to obtain information on how much of the necessary work has been completed and what needs to be done, an oral or written statement and the contents of the actual data to be searched It was necessary to look and look. In these cases, there has been a problem that information is often transmitted erroneously or ambiguous, and such labor is large.

The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a system capable of accurately and efficiently moving work between production lines.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention relates to a system for performing work in each process, which stores real data obtained in a source process and work management data related to the real data. A work transfer system, wherein the work is sent to a destination process, and in the destination process, work is performed using the actual data and the work management data.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a work moving system according to one embodiment of the present invention. Here, an example in which workflow management information is moved in addition to image data between a plurality of plate making lines is considered.

As shown in FIG. 1, this system has a source production line 1, a network or removable media 8, and a destination production line 9, and the source production line 1
Are the workflow management server 3, the data management server 5,
It has a data transfer instruction computer 7 and the like. The transfer destination production line 9 includes a data receiving instruction computer 11, a workflow management server 13, a data management server 15, an actual work computer 17, and the like.

[0009] The workflow management server 3 holds workflow management information. The workflow management information is, for example, data such as the flow of each work that has to be actually performed on the production line and the progress thereof. The data management server 5 manages actual data. Actual data is information such as an image.

The data transfer instruction computer 7 instructs the workflow management server 3 and the data management server 5 to transfer necessary information to the transfer destination production line 9, and transfers the necessary information via the network or the removable medium 8. The data is transferred to the data receiving instruction computer 11 of the production line 9.

The network or the removable medium 8 is a network such as a dedicated line or ISDN, or a removable medium such as a magneto-optical disk (MO).

The data receiving instruction computer 11 is operated by the operator of the destination production line to send the data to the source production line 1.
The workflow management information is registered in the workflow management server 13 and the actual data is registered in the data management server 15.

The workflow management server 13 holds the transferred workflow management information. The data management server 15 manages the transferred actual data. The actual work computer 17 performs a production work.

Next, a method of moving a work will be described with reference to a flow chart of the work moving system of FIG. When it becomes necessary to move the work to another production line in the source production line 1, the worker moves a certain unit of work (in the case of plate-making work, a specific page, folding, etc.) to the data transfer instruction computer 7. (Step 20)
1).

The data transfer instruction computer 7 extracts the workflow management information such as the type of work and the progress of the work on the workflow management server 3 and the corresponding actual data on the data management server 5, and extracts one archive. A file is created (step 202).

The archive file is compressed in order to reduce the amount of communication on the network and the amount of storage on the removable medium (step 203).

The data compressed file is transferred over the network (step 204) or the file is stored in a removable medium (step 205) and transferred to the transfer destination production line 9 (step 206).

In the transfer destination production line 9, when the data compressed file is transferred, the worker instructs the data reception instruction computer 11 to accept the data (step 207).

The data receiving instruction computer 11 comprises:
Extract the compressed archive file (Step 2
08).

Further, a data receiving instruction computer 1
1 reads the workflow management information such as the type of work and the progress of the work in the expanded archive file, and registers it in the workflow management server 13. At this time, if necessary, the type of work and the progress of the work are re-interpreted and re-converted according to the difference in the personnel and the equipment configuration of both lines (step 209).

The data receiving instruction computer 11
Registers the actual data in the expanded archive file in the data management server 15 (step 210).

Using the workflow management information registered in the workflow management server 13 and the actual data registered in the data management server 15, the actual operation computer 17 continues the operation performed on the source production line (pattern). (Input, clipping, assignment, etc.) (step 21)
1).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when taking over between production lines, in addition to actual data such as images, workflow management information is moved together, and the workflow management information is transferred as it is to the destination production line. It can be reflected in management. As a result, the work that has already been completed and the work that has not been performed can be distinguished at the destination, so that a smooth handover can be realized, and there is no need to be aware that the work has moved. The next operation to be performed can be automatically presented on the computer.

In the above-described embodiment, the movement of the work in one direction in the two production lines has been described. However, both the computer for instructing data movement and the computer for instructing data reception are installed in each of the plurality of production lines. Thus, the work can be moved in both directions. in this case,
In each production line, it is also possible for one computer to have both functions of data transfer instruction / data reception instruction.

This system can be implemented not only in a plate making line for printed matter but also in a production line such as a multimedia such as a CD-ROM title or a WWW page on the Internet with the same configuration. In this case, multimedia data such as audio and video is handled as the actual data. If a document is handled as actual data, it can be applied to office work fields such as drafting and settlement of a draft decision.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the work can be accurately and efficiently moved between production lines.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a work moving system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a work transfer system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1. Source production line 3, 13 Workflow management server 5, 15 Data management server 7 Data transfer instruction computer 8 Network or removable media 9 Destination production Line 11: Computer for instructing data reception 17: Computer for actual work

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A system for performing work in each process,
The actual data obtained in the source process and the work management data relating to the actual data are sent to the destination process, and in the destination process, work is performed using the actual data and the work management data. And work moving system. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the work management data is data indicating a type of the work and a progress of the work.