JP2005182414A - Component model-abolition/trouble information system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology for enabling another department to confirm coping to model abolition, a specification change, or any trouble of a using component in a department constituting an organization. <P>SOLUTION: When model abolition of the component, a specification change or any trouble of the same are clarified, a department constituting a whole-company management department 103 or a department constituting a business establishment 104 registers information relevant to it into a component model-abolition/trouble information system 101. The information system 101 makes information related to a coping situation of a related department to have to cope with the information, and the clarification of the model abolition, the specification change or the trouble of the component shared, and provides the shared information. Thereby, work in a form wherein the related department shares a role is supported. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for providing information related to at least one of a part waste mold, specification change, and malfunction as part scrap mold / fault information.

  In organizations such as companies having a plurality of offices or departments (hereinafter collectively referred to as “departments”), parts selection and parts purchase have been performed for each department. However, recently, by constructing a unified database within an organization, an information system that allows each department to use the database has been created. An example of such a system is described in Patent Document 1.

  In the information system described in the document, each department can confirm the type of parts selected / purchased by other departments. For this reason, in the department which considers part selection, the selection can be performed more easily by referring to the types of parts selected in other departments. Moreover, it is possible to easily collect all types of parts and to purchase parts used in each department easily. With the batch purchase, parts of the same type can be purchased more at once, so the purchase cost can be further reduced.

  The part used may be changed to another part (substitute part). For this reason, in the information system described in Patent Document 1, substitute parts information indicating substitute parts for the used parts is registered in the database in advance so that the substitute parts can be referred to (confirmed). In the information system described in Patent Document 2, it is possible to avoid improper use of a part by registering use restriction information or alternative part information in a database for a part that has failed in the past. I am letting you.

  The used parts may be abolished (manufactured or discontinued), or the specifications may be changed. There may be defects in itself or in its use. If such an abandoned mold, specification change, or malfunction is found, the department that handles the used parts that have been found must deal with it. If some countermeasures cannot be taken, another part (substitute part) to be used instead of the part to be used must be selected. For this reason, the change to the substitute part may be performed due to the abandoned mold (manufacturing or sales stoppage) of the used part, the specification change, or its malfunction.

  In any of the information systems described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, it is possible to confirm a substitute part for the used part. In the information system described in Patent Document 1, it is possible to check the parts selected (used) by other departments. However, it is usually not possible to know why a part was selected from a part. This means that replacement parts actually selected by other departments cannot be confirmed due to abandonment, specification changes, or problems. For this reason, each department had to deal with them individually.

When each department responds individually, since each department independently selects a substitute part, the variation of actually selected substitute parts increases. This is undesirable for reducing the cost of purchasing parts. In addition, since each department performs the same work in parallel (overlapping), the work efficiency of the entire organization is reduced. This is also undesirable. For this reason, it is important to make it possible for other departments to confirm the response of each department.
JP 2001-229189 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-238069

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology that enables other departments to confirm the waste type of used parts, specification changes, or countermeasures for defects in the departments constituting the organization.

  The component waste mold / failure information system according to the first aspect of the present invention is directed to a user of a terminal device connected via a communication network, and is at least one of a scrapped component used, a specification change, and a failure. This is a system that can provide information related to parts as disused parts / defect information, and indicates correspondence that the departments that make up the organization will take when at least one of used parts is disused, specification changes, and defects are found And information providing means for providing the correspondence information stored in the information storage means by sending it to the terminal device in response to a request from the terminal device as part waste type / defect information. To do.

  The correspondence information includes: replacement part information that indicates a replacement part that can be replaced with a used part in which at least one of abolished type, specification change, and defect has been found, and correspondence state information that indicates a corresponding situation. It is desirable to include at least one. The information storage means can store information related to the found out mold, specification change, or defect, and the information providing means stores information related to the found out mold, specification change, or defect stored in the information storage means. It is desirable to be able to provide

  In addition to the configuration in the first aspect, the component waste mold / failure information system according to the second aspect of the present invention automatically notifies the user of the terminal device of the storage of new information in the information storage means. A notification means.

  The program of the present invention is intended for users of terminal devices connected via a communication network, and information related to at least one of a used part waste type, specification change, and trouble is used as part waste type / fault information. A program to be executed by a data processing device constituting a system that can be provided, and correspondence information indicating correspondence performed by departments constituting the organization when at least one of abandoned parts, specification changes, and defects of used parts is found A function to be stored in the storage device and a function to be provided by transmitting correspondence information stored by the storing function to the terminal device in response to a request from the terminal device as component waste type / defect information are realized.

  According to the present invention, the correspondence information indicating the correspondence performed by the departments constituting the organization is shared between the departments when at least one of the abandoned type of the used parts, the specification change, and the defect is found. By sharing the information, each department can confirm a response performed by another department, for example, a work performed by the response, a substitute part selected by the work, and the like. For this reason, each department can cope with the found out type, specification change, or defect in the form of sharing the work to be performed without performing duplicate work. As a result, the work efficiency of the entire organization can always be kept high, and variations in the types of substitute parts can be suppressed.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a network system constructed using a component waste type / defect information system (hereinafter abbreviated as “information system”) according to the present embodiment.

  The information system 100 is constructed so that, for example, a company (organization) that manufactures a product by purchasing parts (including materials and raw materials) can more efficiently manufacture the product. As shown in FIG. 1, a network system constructed using the information system 100 includes a terminal device 105 installed in the company-wide management department 103 via the communication network 102 in the information system 100, The terminal device 105 installed in each of the plurality of business establishments 104 indicated by the locations A to C is connected.

  The company-wide management department 103 is a department having a design management department and a parts procurement department. Each office 104 is a department having a circuit design department, a quality assurance department, a parts procurement department, and a manufacturing department. One or more terminal devices 105 are installed in each of these departments. The terminal device 105 is, for example, a personal computer, a PDA, or a mobile phone. The communication network 102 to which such a terminal device 105 is connected includes, for example, a LAN, a WAN, or the Internet.

The information system 120 is constructed using a WWW server 110 and a database (DB) server 120.
The DB server 120 manages an abandoned / failure information database (hereinafter abbreviated as “information DB”) 121. Basically, processing corresponding to a request from the WWW server 110 is performed. The DB 121 is constructed on, for example, a hard disk device mounted as an auxiliary storage device or a storage device connected thereto. The disused type / defect information stored in the DB 121 is information regarding the deprecated type of the target (used) part, specification change, or defect (hereinafter referred to as “part related information” for convenience), and the target part. For example, information (corresponding information) indicating the correspondence of the department to be handled or the office 104. The part-related information includes, for example, a data management number indicating the target part, a title, a manufacturer name, a report file, a registration date, and a response deadline. The correspondence information includes whether or not the target part has been used in each office 104. , Countermeasure status, countermeasure history, and final countermeasure policy (substitute parts decided to be adopted). They are stored for each target part.

  The WWW server 110 includes an information registration / editing unit 111 that realizes storage and editing of information in the information DB 121 managed by the DB server 120, and stores information stored in the DB 121 by a user (employee, etc.) of the terminal device 105. The information search / display unit 112 provided to the terminal device 105 and an e-mail transmission unit 113 that creates an e-mail to be transmitted and transmits it to the user of the terminal device 105. Each of these units 111 to 113 is realized by a CPU mounted on the server 110 reading and executing a program stored in, for example, a hard disk device. Use of the information system 101 constructed using the WWW server 110 and the DB server 120 is performed by causing the terminal device 105 to execute a browser.

Hereinafter, an operation (use) method of the information system 101 and an operation at the time of use will be specifically described with reference to various explanatory diagrams shown in FIGS.
FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the flow of operating the information system 101. In FIG. 2, the horizontal axis represents the departments inside and outside the company (organization). Here, there is a business office 104 consisting of departments for manufacturing, product insurance (quality assurance), design, parts (including materials and raw materials depending on the case), company-wide management department 103 consisting of departments for design management and parts procurement, And a parts manufacturer / trading company from which the parts are purchased. The vertical axis represents the flow of work performed by each department.

  The business flow (business flow) is roughly divided into (a) new information acquisition stage, (b) alternative parts selection stage, (c) final policy decision stage, and (d) in-office information development stage. Proceed with

(A) The new information obtaining stage is a stage in which the corresponding department obtains information on the abolished part type, specification change, or defect. The information can be obtained by, for example, 1) Obtaining the abolished type of the part or changing the specifications from the parts manufacturer / trading company from the parts procurement department. 2) Defect of the product caused by the component itself, in-house part acceptance test. The quality assurance department confirmed that there were defects in quality assurance, such as exceeding the specified defect rate in 3). 3) Manufacturing in which the occurrence of manufacturing defects caused by a single component exceeded the specified defect rate. It is obtained in different departments depending on the information type, such as the manufacturing department confirming the above problem.

  The department (in this case, the parts procurement department, the manufacturing department, or the quality assurance department) that has obtained (confirmed) the information registers it in the information system 101. The registration is performed by causing the terminal device 105 to access the information system 101 to request information registration, and inputting necessary data on a new information registration screen as shown in FIG. Do.

  On the registration screen, as shown in FIG. 3, input fields such as a title (title), manufacturer name (parts purchaser) and reply deadline of registration information, and a selection field for a file to be registered (report file) Etc. are arranged. The file to be registered is, for example, a file as shown in FIG. 4, that is, a file in which a document image for informing the information is stored if information is registered by using the abandoned part. After inputting all the data in the fields in which data should be input and clicking the “Register” button, the terminal device 105 displays the data input in each field and the file selected in the selection field. Transmit to the information system 101.

  Those data transmitted from the terminal device 105 are received by the WWW server 110 of the information system 101. The server 110 transmits these data to the DB server 120 and instructs storage in the information DB 121. Thereby, the DB server 120 adds a new record to the information DB 121 and stores the data received from the WWW server 110 in the added record. Such storage of information in the information DB 121 is realized by the information registration / editing unit 111.

  Such information is stored when a part is abandoned, a specification is changed, or a defect is identified. For this reason, the WWW server 110 stores information in the information DB 121, while electronically informing departments (in this case, the design department and the design management department) to notify that the part has been abandoned, changed specifications, or found to be defective. Notify automatically by email. As a result, the department to be notified can grasp it quickly and reliably.

  The department to be notified can be specified, for example, by setting a mail address for sending an electronic mail by registering new information. The title and text can be prepared in advance in consideration of the situation in which the e-mail is transmitted and the department that transmits the e-mail. Therefore, the creation of an e-mail is basically performed by selecting and arranging the e-mail address as the destination, and the title and body text specified by the situation at this time, the department to send, etc. I am letting you. As a matter of course, a part of registered information (data) or a message corresponding to the registered information (data) may be arranged in the title or text. The same applies to other electronic mails. Creation and transmission of an e-mail performed in this manner are realized by the e-mail transmission unit 113.

  (B) In the substitute part selection stage, it is determined whether or not the necessity of selecting the substitute part due to the abandoned part of the part, specification change, or malfunction, and selection of the substitute part when the necessity is judged to be necessary It is.

  At that stage, the design department of each office 104 that is notified by e-mail of registration of new information determines whether or not a part change is necessary. In the present embodiment, when the target part is used only at one office 104, it is determined that the part needs to be changed, the design department of the office 104 selects an alternative part, and the selection result is displayed as an information system. A rule is set so that the information is registered in 101. If it is determined that there is no component change, the determination result is registered in the information system 101. The substitute parts selected by the design department of the office 104 are checked for validity by the design management department of the company-wide management department 103. As a result, when the target part is used only at one business office 104, if it is determined by the check, the alternative part selected at that business office 104 is adopted.

  When the target part is used in a plurality of business establishments 104, although not shown in the drawing, the design management department of the company-wide management department 103 selects a substitute part and registers the selection result in the information system 101.

  The registration must be performed in association with the newly registered information (here, the component's waste type, specification change, or malfunction). Therefore, for example, this is performed by allowing the terminal device 105 to access the information system 101 and designating (selecting) the information. The designation may be performed by, for example, displaying a list of titles input at the time of registration and designating them from the list. Thereby, the information registered in this way is stored in the corresponding record in the information DB 121. The number of departments that handle parts is determined by registering the department that handles them for each part in, for example, another DB managed by the DB server 120. The department handling the parts can be notified. The registration (registration of the selected substitute part) may be automatically notified to the related department (office 104) by e-mail.

(C) The final policy determination stage is a stage in which a company-wide response policy is finally determined.
When the target part is used only at one business office 104, a substitute part is selected at the business office 104 (design department), and the validity is checked by the design management department of the company-wide management department 103. Therefore, in such a case, at this stage, the design management department confirms whether or not the alternative part is appropriate, and the policy is determined according to the confirmation result. Specifically, if it is confirmed that the substitute part is appropriate, it is determined as a final policy that the substitute part is adopted. Request a review of selection.

  When the target part is used in a plurality of business offices 104, the design management department of the company-wide management department 103 selects a substitute part and registers the selection result in the information system 101. Therefore, in this case, the design department of each business office 104 that handles the target part confirms whether or not it can be replaced with the substitute part and registers the confirmation result in the information system 101. If the confirmation result is negative, for example, a substitute part that replaces the substitute part is registered. In the design management department of the company-wide management department 103, the final policy determined in this way is confirmed at each business office 104, and the opinion is divided into a plurality of alternative parts within the business office 104 or among the plurality of business offices 104. Make adjustments to minimize the number of parts.

  As described above, the final policy is finally determined by the design management department of the company-wide management department 103. Accordingly, the design management department approves the substitute parts used by each office 104 or its department. For this reason, the design management department registers whether to approve each office 104 or the replacement part requested by the department. The information system 101 automatically notifies the establishment 104 or department in which the replacement part has been approved by e-mail to that effect.

  (D) The in-office information development stage is a stage in which each department develops business in accordance with the determined final policy. Thereby, for example, the design department of the business office 104 changes the arrangement part to use the determined substitute part, and the parts procurement department of the business office 104 purchases the substitute part. Instruct the preparation. The department that has completed the preparation accompanying the change to the substitute part in this way registers that information in the information system 101, assuming that the response has been completed. When all the departments that should make such preparations complete the preparation, the information system 101 determines that the correspondence has been completed company-wide. Hereinafter, the data stored (updated) by the registration and indicating whether the countermeasure in the department has been completed will be referred to as “countermeasure status”.

  In this way, when the abandoned type, specification change, or malfunction of the target part is found, information related to it is shared by the information system 101, and each office 104 (or the department that constitutes it) is necessary through this. Information is available. As a result, each business site 104 only needs to perform work to be performed as necessary, so that it is possible to avoid performing work that has already been performed by other business sites 104, or the work can be performed. It becomes easier. In other business establishments 104 or departments where the alternative parts selected by the department are considered to be appropriate, the necessity of examining other alternative parts is avoided or the examination work is facilitated. This means that work efficiency can always be maintained high throughout the company.

  By making it possible to confirm alternative parts selected by other offices 104 or departments when the target parts are abolished, specification changes, or troubles identified, the offices 104 or departments where the alternative parts are considered appropriate The replacement parts will be adopted. As a result, the replacement parts are used by more offices 104 or departments. This means that the same parts can be purchased in larger quantities. For this reason, the purchase cost of parts is also suppressed more.

  Related departments (offices 104 or departments) that handle target parts that have been discontinued, changed in specifications, or found to be defective, follow the operational flow shown in FIG. Information registered in the information DB 121 is referred to. In the present embodiment, the user of the terminal device 105 can extract and provide desired information from the information DB 121.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search condition input screen.
The input screen is used to input search conditions for extracting information to be extracted from the information DB 121. By making the information system 101 access the terminal device 105 and requesting the provision of a search service, the input screen is displayed. Sent from the information system 101. As shown in FIG. 5, on the screen, as a data input item (search condition item) as a search condition, report number (No.), title (title), manufacturer name, registered office, registrant, answer There are a deadline, correspondence status (completed / unfinished), etc., and an input field is arranged. When the search execution button is clicked after the search condition is input, the terminal device 105 transmits the data input as the search condition to the information system 101 and requests the search.

  In the other information system 101, the WWW server 110 receives the request. The WWW server 110 that has received the request transmits it to the DB server 120 to instruct a search. Thereby, the DB server 120 searches the information DB 121 using the data transmitted from the terminal device 105 as a search condition (key), and extracts a record storing data satisfying the search condition. The WWW server 110 receives the record data extracted from the DB server 120, generates a search result list screen as shown in FIG. 6 in which a part of the data is arranged, and transmits the search result list screen to the terminal device 105.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the list screen is divided into upper and lower parts, and the parent report display section, which is the upper frame, displays a maker report in which the target part is abolished, specification changes, or faults are described, or a failure has occurred. Data items related to a report file (parent file) such as a report are provided, and data corresponding to the data items in the record is arranged for each extracted record. In each business office 104, a symbol corresponding to the value of the countermeasure status status is arranged in the countermeasure necessity / countermeasure status display section of each office. “○” placed as a symbol indicates that the countermeasure has been completed company-wide, “X” placed there indicates that it has not been completed, and “-” indicates the countermeasure (response) ) Is not necessary. In the countermeasure information general status display section where data of the data item “company-wide status” is arranged, a symbol corresponding to whether or not all the offices 104 requiring countermeasures (responses) have completed the countermeasures Is placed. “◯” arranged as the symbol indicates that the countermeasure has been completed company-wide, and “X” arranged there indicates that it has not been completed.

  The child report display section, which is the lower frame, is provided with data items related to the report file (child file) that describes the examination contents in the office 104 or department, attached to the parent file, and extracted records Every time, data corresponding to the data item in the record is arranged.

  The data arranged as the data items of “Report No.” and “File” is a link button that can access the file indicated by the data. As a result, the contents of registered reports and files can be easily confirmed. When the “new information registration” button is clicked, a new information registration screen as shown in FIG. 3 can be displayed.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an individual detailed information reference / edit screen.
The example of the screen is the one when the link button arranged as the data item of “Report No.” is clicked in the port display section. The basic information display section and the final decision policy / comment of each office It consists of a display unit. In the basic information display section, data input on the new information registration screen as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed, and in the other display section, whether or not countermeasures are required and whether or not it has been completed for each office 104. The status to be displayed, the completion date, the selected replacement part, etc. are displayed. As a result, it is possible to confirm the target parts for which the abandoned type, specification changes, or malfunctions have been found, the establishment 104 that handles them, the current situation (substitute parts selected for the target part), and the like. . The information search / display unit 112 of the WWW server 110 is installed in order to realize this.

  In this embodiment, in addition to sharing information related to the abolished type, specification change, or malfunction of the target part among the departments (including the office 104), the work to be performed by each department and its flow Is determined in advance to assist the respective departments to perform the work to be performed along the flow, but it is not always necessary to do so. For example, it is considered that the degree of urgency that requires a target part that has been scrapped, changed specifications, or found a defect is often different depending on the department, so let the department with a high degree of urgency consider the replacement part. You may do it. In such a case, by registering whether or not the examination work is being performed as a status (corresponding information), it is possible to avoid the duplication of examination work by other departments. For this reason as well, it is desirable to appropriately change the information (data) to be registered.

  By sending an e-mail according to the situation, the related department that should deal with the abandoned type, specification change, or malfunction can grasp the progress of the situation at any time. However, since the progress can be confirmed by accessing the information system 101, it is not always necessary. Alternatively, it may be selectively performed when the degree of urgency is relatively high.

  The program for realizing the above-described operation may be distributed by being recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, DVD, or magneto-optical disk. Alternatively, part or all of the program may be distributed via a transmission medium used in a public network or the like. In any case, the user can acquire a program and install it in a data processing device such as a personal computer, thereby using the data processing device to construct a parts waste type / defect information system to which the present invention is applied. it can. Therefore, the recording medium may be accessible by an apparatus that can distribute the program.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the network system constructed | assembled using the component waste type | mold defect information system by this Embodiment. It is a figure explaining the flow which operates the component waste type | mold defect information system by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a new information registration screen. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a registration file. It is a figure which shows the example of a search condition input screen. It is a figure which shows the example of a search result list screen. It is a figure which shows the example of an individual detailed information reference and edit screen.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Component waste type / defect information system 102 Communication network 103 Company-wide management department 104 Office 105 Terminal apparatus 110 WWW server 111 Information registration / editing part 112 Information search / display part 113 E-mail transmission part 120 Database server 121 Disposal type / defect information The database

Claims (5)

It is a system that can provide information on at least one of out-of-use parts, specification changes, and defects of used parts as part out-of-form / defect information for users of terminal devices connected via a communication network. ,
Information storage means for storing correspondence information indicating correspondence performed by departments constituting the organization when at least one of the abandoned mold, specification change, and malfunction of the used parts is found;
Information providing means for providing the correspondence information stored by the information storage means as the component waste type / defect information by transmitting to the terminal device in response to a request from the terminal device;
A part waste type / defect information system characterized by comprising: The correspondence information includes: replacement part information indicating a replacement part that can be replaced with a used part in which at least one of the abandoned type, specification change, and defect has been found, and correspondence state information indicating the corresponding state Including at least one,
The component waste mold / defect information system according to claim 1. The information storage means can store information related to the found waste type, specification change, or defect,
The information providing means can provide information related to the found waste type, specification change, or defect stored in the information storage means.
3. The component information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the component information providing system is a component information providing system. Notification means for automatically notifying the user of the terminal device of storage of new information in the information storage means;
The component waste mold / failure information system according to claim 1, further comprising: Configure a system that can provide information on at least one of the used component abandonment, specification changes, and defects as component scrapped / fault information for users of terminal devices connected via a communication network A program to be executed by a data processing device,
A function of storing correspondence information indicating correspondence performed by departments constituting the organization in a storage device when at least one of the abandoned type, specification change, and malfunction of the used parts is found;
The function provided by transmitting the correspondence information stored by the function to be stored as the component waste type / defect information to the terminal device in response to a request from the terminal device;
A program to realize

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