JP2006350750A - Green procurement device and green procurement processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To flexibly respond even to insufficiency of information. <P>SOLUTION: Regulation definition information defining determination conditions and supplementary information, and various data on determination targets are stored in a regulation definition storage means 11 and a data storage means 12 respectively. When determination processing is started, a regulation definition analysis means 13 reads out target regulation definition information from the regulation definition storage means 11 and analyzes the regulation definition information read out to extract the determination conditions. According to the extracted determination conditions, a condition compliance determination means 14 makes a condition compliance determination of whether or not there are target data matching defined data items and whether or not they comply with determination standards. A regulation compliance determination means 15 makes a regulation compliance determination based on the condition compliance determination of every determination condition by the condition compliance determination means 14, and if necessary, provides corresponding supplementary information along with the determination results. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a green procurement apparatus and a green procurement processing program, and more particularly to a green procurement apparatus and a green procurement processing program for determining whether a product or a part conforms to predetermined environmental regulations.

  In recent years, from the viewpoint of protecting the global environment, green procurement has been promoted to procure parts with a low content of harmful substances in order to manufacture products with a low environmental impact. Each country also has related laws and regulations and policies to promote green procurement.

  In green procurement, each manufacturer requests a component supplier to investigate the amount of harmful substances contained in the component (green procurement survey), and obtains information on the chemical substances. Then, based on the obtained chemical substance information, it is determined whether or not the product complies with environmental laws and regulations, and the degree of green compatibility is determined at the time of parts procurement, and an appropriate part considering the environment is selected.

In order to realize such green procurement, product configuration information, parts information, substance information, supplier evaluation, green product delivery rate, etc. are registered in the database, and the database is stored using the specified products and parts as keys. There is a green procurement system that searches and provides information for manufacturing environmentally conscious products such as evaluation of environmental compatibility of products, parts, raw materials, etc., evaluation of suppliers, and the ratio of green product delivery by each supplier ( For example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2001-56708 A (paragraph numbers [0012] to [0027], FIG. 1)

  However, with conventional green procurement equipment, compliance judgment is flexibly handled when there is a shortage of information that is the basis for judgment, or when the judgment logic is changed due to revisions to laws and regulations. There was a problem that was difficult.

  Currently, the Green Procurement Standardization Council is working to standardize the paper (investigation form) format for green procurement surveys and standardize substances to be surveyed in order to reduce the workload of parts suppliers related to green procurement surveys. Yes. However, some suppliers still use a unique format, and the number of parts is enormous, so there are many cases where necessary information items are insufficient when registering products or parts. However, in the conventional green procurement apparatus, when there are insufficient information items in this way, it has not been possible to correctly determine whether or not it conforms to laws and regulations or environmental standards established by companies.

  On the other hand, there are many provisos and exceptions in laws and regulations and manufacturer's environmental standards, and there is a problem that it is difficult to determine conformity or nonconformity mechanically. For example, there are exceptions depending on the usage, such as “If used as a packaging material, it must be XX”, “Not included when included in network equipment”, etc. The standard values are also described in various forms such as “xxx wt% or more” or “xxx ppm or more” and “amount of mercury contained in one fluorescent lamp”. For this reason, the conventional system only performs simple processing such as determining whether or not a specified hazardous substance is used and integrating the amount of harmful substances, and notifies the result. It was entrusted. Alternatively, a determination program for branching the conformity determination depending on the conditions such as the usage has been created to deal with complicated logic such as laws and regulations. However, environmental laws and regulations are often amended, and environmental standards set by manufacturers are often changed due to changes in manufacturers' policies. For this reason, when the conformity determination is realized by a program, it is not possible to flexibly cope with a legal revision, for example, because it is necessary to modify the program every time a change or new addition is made to laws and regulations.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and is a green procurement apparatus and a green procurement that can flexibly cope with a lack of information and can perform conformity judgments such as legal regulations and environmental standards. An object is to provide a processing program. Another object of the present invention is to provide a green procurement apparatus and a green procurement processing program that can flexibly cope with changes in judgment criteria and judgment logic such as legal revision.

  In the present invention, in order to solve the above-described problems, a green procurement apparatus as shown in FIG. 1 is provided. The green procurement apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a regulation definition storage unit 11, a data storage unit 12, a regulation definition analysis unit 13, a condition conformance judgment unit 14, and a regulation conformity judgment unit 15, and the product or part has a predetermined environmental regulation. It is determined whether or not.

  The restriction definition storage means 11 stores restriction definition information that defines whether or not the environmental regulations including environmental regulations and environmental standards comply with the environmental regulations and supplementary information regarding the contents of the judgment conditions. . The data storage means 12 stores various data to be determined including product information 12a related to the product, part information 12b related to parts constituting the product, and substance information 12c related to substances constituting the parts. The restriction definition analyzing unit 13 reads the target restriction definition information from the restriction definition storage unit 11, analyzes the read restriction definition information, and extracts a determination condition. The condition conformity determination unit 14 searches the data storage unit 12 for target data for the extracted determination condition, determines no target data in which the target data is not detected, conformity determination or nonconformity in which the detected target data conforms to the determination condition Judgment of conformity of any of the non-conformance judgments. Based on the condition conformance judgment performed by the condition conformity judgment means 14, the regulation conformity judgment means 15 determines the regulation conformity judgment for the environmental regulations, and provides supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance determination together with the regulations conformity judgment as necessary. .

  According to such a green procurement apparatus 1, restriction definition information in which determination conditions and supplementary information are defined in advance is stored in the restriction definition storage means 11, and various data such as determination target products, parts and substances are stored in the data. It is stored in the means 12. When the determination process is started, the restriction definition analysis unit 13 reads the target restriction definition information from the restriction definition storage unit 11, analyzes the read restriction definition information, and extracts a determination condition. In the determination condition, for example, an item of target data and a determination criterion are defined. The condition conformity determination unit 14 searches the data storage unit 12 for target data corresponding to the determination condition for each extracted determination condition. And when it is not detected, the object data no determination is performed. Further, when the target data is detected, it is checked against the determination condition. If the target data meets the determination condition, conformity determination is performed, and if the target data does not match, non-conformance determination is performed. The regulation conformity determination unit 15 determines the regulation conformance determination with respect to the environmental regulation based on the condition conformance determination by the condition conformity determination unit 14. That is, the environmental regulations are composed of one or a plurality of judgment conditions, and the final regulation conformity judgment is determined from the condition conformance judgment of each judgment condition. If necessary, supplementary information regarding the contents of the determination condition corresponding to the condition conformity determination is read from the restriction definition storage unit 11 and provided together with the restriction conformance determination.

  Each processing unit of the green procurement apparatus 1 can be realized by a computer executing a green procurement processing program.

  In the present invention, restriction definition information including supplementary information relating to the determination conditions and the contents of the determination conditions is stored in the storage means in advance. Then, for each determination condition based on the restriction definition information, some condition conformance determination is determined even when the target data does not exist, and the regulation conformance determination is determined from the condition conformance determination. In addition, supplementary information is provided together with regulatory compliance determinations as necessary.

  In this way, even when there is a shortage in the target data, provisional regulatory compliance determination is determined, and supplementary information regarding the contents of the determination condition is provided as necessary. For example, by providing supplementary information regarding the contents of the determination condition for which the target data is not determined in the condition conformance determination, the user can flexibly cope with the shortage of information, such as being able to know the determination condition for the shortage. Become.

  In addition, if the procedure of the determination process is described in the regulation definition information, it is possible to cope with the law revision only by updating the regulation definition information even if a law revision occurs. As a result, it is possible to flexibly cope with changes in judgment criteria and judgment logic, such as legal revision.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the concept of the invention applied to the embodiment will be described, and then the specific contents of the embodiment will be described.
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of the invention applied to the embodiment.

  The green procurement apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a restriction definition storage unit 11 that stores restriction definition information, a storage unit 12 that stores various data to be determined, and a restriction definition analysis unit 13 that analyzes the restriction definition. Each condition means includes a condition conformity determination means 14 that performs conformity determination for each determination condition and a regulation conformity determination means 15 that performs conformity determination with respect to environmental regulations.

  In the restriction definition storage means 11, restriction definition information for prescribing whether or not to comply with environmental regulations in advance and environmental regulations such as laws and regulations and environmental standards is defined and supplementary information on the contents of the judgment conditions is defined. Stored. The restriction definition information is created in correspondence with, for example, a restriction number for environmental restrictions such as “restriction 001”. In the determination condition, for example, a data item related to a regulated substance such as “substance XX” and a determination criterion such as “below ΔΔ” are defined. Furthermore, if there is a use setting, for example, a condition setting such as “applicable if packing material”, this is also defined. In addition, the determination condition is arbitrarily set according to the laws and regulations when a due date is defined according to the enforcement date of the laws and regulations. As supplementary information, information related to the contents of the determination condition is set. That is, if the condition conformance determination in which no data is determined is confirmed, the regulatory conformance determination is confirmed. Therefore, providing supplementary information regarding the contents of the determination condition can provide the user with insufficient information. Further, based on the determination condition, a condition may be set such that if this condition is satisfied, the result of the regulatory conformity determination becomes the conformity determination. For example, information such as “substance XX is equal to or less than ΔΔ” is set corresponding to the determination condition. The restriction definition information describes a determination processing procedure using a script language.

  The data storage unit 12 stores various data to be determined as to whether or not the environmental regulations are met. In the example of the figure, the product information 12a related to the product such as the use of the product, the part information 12b related to the part such as the use and the material of the part, the substance information 12c related to the substance constituting the product or the part, and the parts information constituting the product. It includes configuration information 12d to be associated.

  The restriction definition analysis means 13 searches the restriction definition storage means 11 and extracts restriction definition information corresponding to the specified legal restriction or environmental standard. Then, the extracted restriction definition information is analyzed, and the defined determination condition is extracted. In the restriction definition information, one or a plurality of determination conditions are defined, and when there are a plurality of determination conditions, all of them are extracted.

  The condition conformity determination unit 14 performs condition conformance determination for each determination condition extracted by the restriction definition analysis unit 13. In the condition conformance determination, first, target data corresponding to the data item defined in the determination condition is searched from the data storage unit 12. When the target data is retrieved, it is determined whether or not the value conforms to the determination criterion. Further, when the target data is not searched, it is determined as “unknown (meaning no target data)”.

  The regulation conformity determination unit 15 determines a final regulation conformance determination based on the condition conformance determination for each determination condition performed by the condition conformity determination unit 14 and provides supplementary information as necessary. The determination processing is performed according to the processing procedure described in the regulation definition information. That is, in the regulation definition information, a processing procedure corresponding to a complicated logic of environmental regulations is described in a script language or the like. When the condition conformance judgment of the judgment condition 1 is “conformity”, the judgment condition 2 is “nonconformity”. In this case, a logic is described in which the determination condition of determination condition 3 is performed in the next stage. Therefore, in the determination process, a conditional branch route is formed by repeatedly performing conditional branching according to the determination condition in the previous stage based on the described logic. If the condition conformance judgment at the previous stage is “unknown”, the condition branches to the same route as in the case of “conformity”. Then, final compliance determination is performed according to the conditional branch route. If there is “unknown” in the conditional branch route, “conditional conformity” is determined as a provisional determination. “Conditional” indicates that if the target data of the determination criterion “unknown” is obtained and the conditional conformity determination can be performed, the regulatory conformity determination is finalized. Further, if there is no “unknown” in the conditional branching route, and finally conforms to the regulations, a “conformity” determination is made, and if it does not conform, it becomes “nonconformity”. When “conditional conformity” is obtained, supplementary information corresponding to “unknown” judgment existing in the conditional branch route is combined to generate supplementary information related to regulatory conformance judgment. In the supplementary information, at least information related to the target data necessary for determination is set.

  The operation of the green procurement apparatus 1 having such a configuration will be described. Hereinafter, an operation in a case where the target product and the regulations are specified in the green procurement apparatus 1 and an instruction to determine whether the target product conforms to the regulations will be described.

  The restriction definition analyzing unit 13 reads out the restriction definition information related to the target legal regulations designated from the restriction definition storage unit 11, analyzes the restriction definition information, and extracts a determination condition from the restriction definition information. For example, a conditional sentence such as an “if” sentence is searched and all of these are extracted.

  When the determination condition is extracted, the condition conformance determination unit 14 performs conformity determination on the target data for each determination condition. For example, if the usage of the product is described in the conditional statement, information on the usage of the target product is searched from the product information 12a, and if it is searched, conformity determination is performed to determine “conforming” or “nonconforming”. If not searched, it is determined as “unknown”. If the condition statement describes the material of a part constituting the product, the part corresponding to the product is checked with reference to the configuration information 12d, the part information 12b is searched, and target data related to the part is obtained. If the target data cannot be obtained, it is similarly determined as “unknown”, and if it is obtained, “conformity” or “nonconformity” is determined based on the criterion. Further, when the substance constituting the part is described in the conditional statement, the substance corresponding to the part is examined with reference to the configuration information 12d, the substance information 12c is searched, the target data regarding the substance is obtained, As with products and parts, it is determined whether “conforming”, “nonconforming” or “unknown”.

  When the condition conformance determination for each determination condition is obtained in this way, the regulation conformity determination means 15 analyzes the condition conformance determination of each determination condition according to the laws and regulations logic, and generates a conditional branch route that connects the determination conditions. If there is “unknown” in the condition conformance judgment in the conditional branch route, the regulation conformity judgment is set to “conditional conformance”. In other words, a determination is made that a condition is given that “if there is target data of a determination condition for which the condition conformance determination is“ unknown ”, the regulatory conformance determination is finalized”. Then, individual supplementary information corresponding to the determination condition for which the condition conformance determination is “unknown”, that is, a condition for finalizing the determination is combined to generate supplementary information along the final regulatory conformance determination. In the supplementary information, target data that is insufficient based on the determination condition is set, and a determination criterion is included as necessary. If there is no “unknown” in the conditional conformity determination in the conditional branch route, the regulatory conformance determination is determined according to the conditional branch route. The generated supplemental information is converted into a natural language and displayed on a display unit or the like together with the regulatory conformity determination.

  By executing the above processing procedure, it is possible to provisionally determine whether or not the product conforms to regulations even in a state where information is insufficient, for example, there is no target data for determination conditions in product information or the like. If the information is insufficient, a conditional conformity determination is made, and supplementary information such as a lacking data item and its criterion is displayed in natural language together with the regulatory conformance determination. As a result, when the information is insufficient, the user can know the missing data item from the supplementary information, and can prompt the data manager to supplement the data.

  In addition, since the restriction definition information is generated by a script language that describes the processing procedure, if there is a change in the restriction definition information due to a law revision, it is possible to flexibly cope with the change by changing the script.

  In the above description, the case where the target product and the law and regulation are selected one by one has been described. However, it is natural that a plurality of products or a plurality of laws and regulations can be selected to perform regulation conformity determination. In this case, for example, the above-described regulation conformity determination is sequentially performed for each combination, and the respective determinations are collectively provided.

Hereinafter, the embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, taking as an example a case where the embodiment is applied to a green procurement system that determines whether a product or a part conforms to environmental laws and regulations.
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a green procurement apparatus that performs conformity determination regarding legal regulations according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The green procurement apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment includes a control unit 110, a storage unit 120, a download unit 130, an instruction input unit 140, and a display unit 150, and a predetermined product conforms to environmental regulations in accordance with an instruction from a user. The process which determines whether or not is performed.

  The control unit 110 includes a legal regulation definition analysis unit 111, a condition conformance determination unit 112, and a legal regulation conformity determination unit 113. The regulation definition analysis unit 111 functions as the regulation definition analysis unit 13, reads the target regulation definition file from the regulation master 121, and extracts the determination conditions defined therein. The condition conformity determination unit 112 functions as the condition conformity determination unit 14 and searches for target data of the determination condition for each determination condition, and performs the condition conformance determination based on the presence / absence of the target data and whether the target data meets the condition. Do. The regulatory compliance determination unit 113 functions as the regulatory compliance determination unit 15 and performs legal compliance determination based on the conditional compliance determination.

  The storage unit 120 includes a legal regulation master 121 that stores a legal regulation definition file group 300, a product master 122 that stores information related to products, a part master 123 that stores information related to parts constituting the product, and substances constituting the products and parts. A material master 124 for storing information on the configuration information, and configuration information 125 on association between the masters. Details of the information stored in each will be described later.

  The download unit 130 downloads the legal regulation definition file group 300 managed by the legal regulation data disclosure organization 200 connected via the network, and stores it in the legal regulation master 121. The legal and regulatory data disclosing organization 200 creates a legal and regulatory definition file group 300 in which the logic of environmental laws and regulations is described in a script language. Data management is performed to add new regulation definition information or to change the contents of already set regulation definition information. The legal and regulatory definition file group 300 to be managed is made public and supplied in response to a request from a registered user or the like.

The instruction input unit 140 transmits an instruction set by the user to the control unit 110 via an input unit such as a mouse or a keyboard.
The display unit 150 displays information such as determination results and supplementary information according to the control unit 110 and provides the information to the user.

Here, the hardware configuration of the green procurement apparatus 100 will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the green procurement apparatus according to the present embodiment.
The entire green procurement apparatus 100 is controlled by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 101. A random access memory (RAM) 102, a hard disk drive (HDD) 103, a graphic processing device 104, an input interface 105, and a communication interface 106 are connected to the CPU 101 via a bus 107.

  The RAM 102 temporarily stores at least part of an OS (Operating System) program and application programs to be executed by the CPU 101. The RAM 102 stores various data necessary for processing by the CPU 101. The HDD 103 stores the OS and application programs. A monitor 108 is connected to the graphic processing device 104, and an image is displayed on the screen of the monitor 108 in accordance with a command from the CPU 101. A keyboard 109 a and a mouse 109 b are connected to the input interface 105, and signals transmitted from the keyboard 109 a and the mouse 109 b are transmitted to the CPU 101 via the bus 107. The communication interface 106 is connected to the network 30 and exchanges data with a regulatory data disclosure organization through the network 30.

With such a hardware configuration, the processing functions of the present embodiment can be realized.
Hereinafter, the green procurement process by the green procurement apparatus 100 of the present embodiment will be described with a specific example.

First, examples of laws and regulations and their regulation definition files will be described.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a first example of laws and regulations applied to the present embodiment.
Legal regulation 001 (301), which is the first example of legal regulation, is the “RoHS Directive” of European environmental regulations. “Equipment provided to the European market after July 1, 2006 includes mercury, cadmium, It must not contain lead, hexavalent chromium, PBB (polybromobiphenyl; bromine-based additive), PBDE (polybromodiphenyl ether; bromine-based additive). "

  That is, as judgment conditions, (1) “After July 1, 2006” relating to the period, and (2) “Mercury, cadmium, lead, hexavalent chromium, PBB, PBDE must not be contained” relating to the contained substances. is there.

A legal regulation definition file 001 is created for such legal regulation 001 (301).
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a first example of a legal regulation definition file in the present embodiment.
The legal regulation definition file 001 (311) is a description of the logic of the legal regulation 001 (301) shown in FIG. 4 in a script language. (1) Time and (2) Conditional statements regarding contained substances and their supplementary information Is set.

  (1) For the time, an if statement “if (Products.release> 20066071)” 311a describing the determination condition of the time and supplementary information “if001: provision time is July 1, 2006 based on the content of the determination condition If it was before, 311b is set. Further, it is described that if the if statement 311a is true, the process proceeds to the next if statement 311c, and if the if statement 311a is not true, the process returns “conform”. The supplementary information is used when the regulatory compliance determination is “conditional compliance” because there is no target data, and therefore a condition for determining “compliance” is set. For example, in this example, the if statement 311a is “Is the provision time after July 1, 2006?”, But since the case of false is “conforming”, the supplementary information 311b and the if statement 311a Is the opposite. Moreover, it is described in a data format such as text data that can be easily converted into a natural language.

  Similarly, for (2) contained material, an if statement 311c describing the determination condition of the contained substance is described, and supplementary information 311d describing the contents of the determination condition is set. Further, it is described that if the if sentence 311c is true (including the substance of the if sentence 311c), the process returns with “nonconformity”, and if the if sentence 311c is not true, the process returns with “conformity”.

In this way, by sequentially executing the processing procedures described in the legal regulation definition file 001 (311), it is possible to determine conformity with the legal regulation 001 (301).
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a second example of the laws and regulations applied to this embodiment.

  Law 002 (302), which is a second example, states that “vinyl chloride or a copolymer thereof, polyurethane, polyethylene, cellulose acetate, and epoxy resin plastic used for insulating materials for packaging materials, clothing, and electrical products are zero. "It must not contain more than 01% cadmium."

  That is, as judgment conditions, there are (1) application, (2) plastic type, and (3) cadmium content. A legal regulation definition file 002 is created for such a legal regulation 002 (302).

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a second example of the legal regulation definition file in the present embodiment.
The legal regulation definition file 002 (321) describes the logic of the legal regulation 002 (301) shown in FIG. 6 in a script language. (1) Usage, (2) Plastic type, and (3) Cadmium content A conditional statement related to is set.

  (1) For usage, an if statement 321a and supplementary information 321b describing the contents of this determination condition are set. Further, it is described that if the if statement 321a is true, the process proceeds to the next if statement 321c, and if the if statement 321a is not true, the process returns “conform”.

  (2) The plastic type is determined when the if statement 321a is true, and an if statement 321c regarding the plastic type and supplementary information 321d based on the contents are set. Further, it is described that if the if statement 321c is true, the process proceeds to the next if statement 321e, and if the if statement 321c is not true, the process returns “conform”.

  (3) The cadmium content is determined when the if statement 321c is true, and an if statement 321e regarding the cadmium content and supplementary information 321f based on the contents are set. Further, it is described that if the if statement 321e is true, the process returns with “nonconformity”, and if the if statement 321e is not true, the process returns with “conformity”.

Note that the format of the above-mentioned legal regulation definition file is an example, and the legal regulation definition file can be generated in any description format that describes the processing procedure.
Here, regarding the case of the legal regulation definition file 002 (321), the legal regulation conformity determination when there is no target data of each if statement and the condition conformance determination is “unknown” will be described.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the relationship between the condition conformance determination and the legal compliance conformity determination of the present embodiment.
FIG. 8 shows the determination results when the target data of either (1) application, (2) plastic type or (3) cadmium content in the legal regulation definition file 002 (321) is unknown and the other matches the condition. The output characters displayed as supplementary information are shown.

  (1) In the case 401 in which the condition conformance determination for the if statement 321a regarding the application is “unknown” and the other matches the condition, the legal conformity conformance determination is “conditional conformance”, and the output character is the if sentence 321a. Corresponding supplementary information 321b is displayed “if it is used for purposes other than insulation of packaging materials, clothing, and electrical products”.

  (2) In the case 402 where the condition conformance determination for the if statement 321c regarding the plastic type is “unknown” and the other matches the condition, the legal conformity conformance determination is “conditional conformance”, and the if character 321c is used as an output character. Supplementary information 321d corresponding to “if the type of plastic is other than vinyl chloride,...” Is displayed.

  (3) In the case 403 where the condition conformance determination for the if statement 321e regarding the cadmium content is “unknown” and the other matches the condition, the legal conformity determination is “conditional conformance”, and the output character is an if sentence Supplementary information 321f corresponding to 321e “if the cadmium content is less than 0.01%” is displayed.

Next, the legal regulation master 121, the product master 122, the parts master 123, the substance master 124, and the configuration information 125 formed in the storage unit 120 will be described.
The legal regulation master 121 stores the legal regulation definition file described above together with identification information for identifying the legal regulation definition file.

The product master 122 stores a product table in which information about products is collected in a table format. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a product table according to the present embodiment.
In the product table 510, for each product, a product ID for identifying the product, a product number and a product name of the product, and a use of the product are set.

  The parts master 123 stores a parts table in which parts information about each part constituting the product is collected in a table format. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a component table according to the present embodiment.

In the part table 520, for each part, a part ID for identifying the part, a part number and a part name of the part, a use of the part, and a plastic type are set.
The substance master 124 stores a substance table in which substance information related to substances constituting the part is collected in a table format. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the substance table of the present embodiment.

In the substance table 530, a substance ID for identifying a substance, a CAS No, and a substance name are set for each substance.
The configuration information 125 stores link information that associates each piece of information. FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of configuration information according to the present embodiment.

In the example of the figure, the configuration information includes a product-part link 541 that associates product information and part information, and a part-substance link 542 that associates part information and substance information.
The product-part link 541 is associated with a product ID and a part ID constituting the product. The number is the number of parts included in the product. For example, in the example of the figure, it is shown that the product ID (0001) having a number of 1 is composed only of the component ID <0002>. In other words, a part ID corresponding to the number is associated with one product.

  In the part-substance link 542, the part ID, the substance ID constituting the part, and the content thereof are associated with each other. For example, in the example of the figure, it is indicated that the component ID <0001> includes the substance ID <0001> and the content thereof is 0.003%.

  The information necessary for the configuration information is determined according to the function provided in the green procurement apparatus. For example, in the case where relevant laws and regulations are derived from substances and regulatory conformity determination is performed, a substance-law regulation link is further required.

  By the way, the green procurement apparatus 100 performs processing according to the user's instruction input via the instruction input unit 140, and performs legal compliance determination while appropriately displaying information on the display unit 150.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the development of the display screen of the green procurement apparatus of this embodiment.
The top page 600 of the green procurement apparatus 100 is a screen for requesting designation of a search target. In the example of the figure, any one of product search, part search, substance search, and legal search is selected. When product search is specified, a product search screen 601 is displayed. After the target product is specified, the compliance with the laws and regulations is determined. When a part search is specified, a part search screen 602 is displayed. After the target part is specified, the compliance with the laws and regulations is determined. When a substance search is specified, a substance search screen 603 is displayed. After the target substance is specified, the compliance with laws and regulations is determined. Similarly, when a legal regulation search is designated, a legal regulation search screen 604 is displayed. After the target legal regulation is designated, the legal regulation conformity determination is performed. In the following description, it is assumed that the legal search is selected, and description of other search screens is omitted.

  On the legal regulation search screen 604, search designation regarding the target legal regulation can be performed. For example, if the search for the RoHS command is designated here, a list of the RoHS command is displayed on the legal regulation list screen 605.

  On the legal restriction list screen 605, the searched RoHS command is displayed in a list such as legal regulations 001, legal regulations 002, and so on. For example, if the legal regulation 002 is designated here, the legal regulation detail screen 606 regarding the legal regulation 002 is displayed, and the determination target can be selected.

  On the legal regulation detail screen 606, for example, products, parts, and substances can be selected as judgment targets. If a product is specified, it is determined whether or not each product conforms to the legal regulations 002, and the determination result is displayed on the product list screen 607. If a part is specified, it is determined whether or not each part complies with the legal regulations 002, and the determination result is displayed on the part list screen 608. Similarly, if a substance is designated, it is determined whether or not each substance complies with the laws and regulations 002, and a determination result is displayed on the substance list screen 609. In addition, although it was set as a list here, a product, a part, or a substance can also be designated separately. Here, it is assumed that a part is specified.

  When the target is set in this manner, the legal regulation definition analysis unit 111 reads the legal regulation definition file of the legal regulation 002 of the RoHS command from the legal regulation master 121. In this case, the legal regulation definition file 002 (321) shown in FIG. 7 is read out. Then, the legal regulation definition file 002 (321) is analyzed, and an “if” statement in which the determination condition is described is extracted. In this example, an if statement 321a regarding the use, an if statement 321c regarding the plastic type, and an if statement 321e regarding the cadmium content are extracted.

  Next, the condition conformity determination unit 112 determines whether or not the target data conforms to each extracted if sentence. In the following description, it is assumed that the target data is the component table 520 shown in FIG. In the following description, in order to clearly distinguish from the final legal and regulatory conformity judgment, “conformity” in the conditional conformity judgment indicates “conformance (true)” or “nonconformity” indicating that the contents of the if statement are true. Is expressed as “non-conforming (false)” indicating that the contents of the if sentence are false.

  First, the if statement 321a relating to the application describes “if the application is insulation of a packaging material, clothing, or an electrical product”. In the case of the component table 520 shown in FIG. 10, the component ID <0002> is “applicable (true)” because the usage is “clothing”, and the component ID <0003> is “insulation of electrical products”. Therefore, it is similarly determined as “conforming (true)”. The component ID <0001> is determined to be “unknown” because the use is not set.

  Next, the if statement 321c relating to the plastic type describes “if the plastic type is vinyl chloride, a copolymer of vinyl chloride, polyurethane, polyethylene, cellulose acetate, or an epoxy resin”. In the case of the parts table 520, the part ID <0001> is determined as “conforming (true)” because the plastic type is vinyl chloride. Similarly, since the part ID <0003> is polyurethane, it is determined as “conforming (true)”. The part ID <0002> is determined to be “unknown” because the plastic type is not set.

  And in the if statement 321e regarding the cadmium content, “if the cadmium content is 0.01% or more” is described. From the substance table 530 shown in FIG. 11, it can be seen that the substance ID of cadmium is 0001. Therefore, referring to the part-substance link 542 of the configuration information, all parts contain cadmium, and the content thereof is 0.003% for the part ID <0001> and 0.005 for the part ID <0002>. % And component ID <0003> have no content. As a result, in the condition conformance determination, the component ID <0001> is determined as “nonconforming (false)”, the component ID <0002> is “nonconforming (false)”, and the component ID <0003> is determined as “unknown”.

Next, the regulatory compliance determination unit 113 performs the regulatory compliance determination of each part using the conditional compliance determination determined by the conditional compliance determination unit 112.
First, for the component ID <0001>, since the first if statement 321a is “unknown”, the process branches to the if statement 321c. Since this if statement 321c is “conforming (true)”, it branches to the if statement 321e. Since the if statement 321e is “nonconforming (false)”, the legal regulation definition file 321 has a legal regulation conformity judgment “ Branch to “Fit”. However, since there is “unknown” on the conditional branch route, the regulatory compliance determination is “conditional compliance”, and supplementary information 321b corresponding to the if statement 321a is set as supplementary information.

  Next, for the component ID <0002>, since the first if statement 321a is “conforming (true)”, the process branches to the if statement 321c, and since the if statement 321c is “unknown”, the process branches to the if statement 321e. To do. Since the last if statement 321e is “non-conforming (false)”, the legal regulation conformity determination branches to “conform” on the legal regulation definition file 321. However, since there is “unknown” on the conditional branch route, the regulatory compliance determination is “conditional compliance”, and supplementary information 321d corresponding to the if statement 321c is set as supplementary information.

  For the component ID <0003>, since the first if statement 321a is “conforming (true)”, the process branches to the if statement 321c. Since the if statement 321c is also “conforming (true)”, the if statement 321e. Branch to Since the last if statement 321e is “unknown”, the legal and regulatory conformity determination branches to “adapted” in the legal and regulatory definition file 321. However, since there is “unknown” on the conditional branch route, “Applicable” is determined. Then, supplementary information 321f corresponding to the if sentence 321e is set as supplementary information.

According to the above processing procedure, the regulatory compliance determination for each part is determined.
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a legal compliance determination result display screen of the present embodiment. FIG. 14 shows an example in which “law list 002” is selected from “law list” and “part list” is designated in the above procedure.

  On the legal regulation determination result display screen (parts list screen) 700, for each part, the judgment of the if sentence 321a concerning the use, the if sentence 321c concerning the plastic type, and the if sentence 321e concerning the cadmium content, and the final legal regulation conformity judgment And comments (supplementary information) are displayed. The user, for example, uses the component ID <0001> for which the application is “unknown” but “conditional conformity” that matches other conditions. It will be in compliance with regulations. "

As described above, the temporary determination result is displayed so as to understand what the missing data is, so that it is possible to flexibly cope with the shortage of information.
In addition, since the judgment process is performed in accordance with the processing procedure described in the law and regulation definition file, if a law or regulation is added or the content is changed, it is possible to respond by simply downloading a new law and regulation definition file. Can do. Furthermore, since the processing procedure is described on the legal regulation definition file, the green procurement apparatus 100 can easily execute the judgment procedure in accordance with the complex logic of the legal regulation. As described above, it becomes possible to easily process a complicated determination logic, and it is possible to flexibly cope with a change in the determination criterion and the determination logic.

Next, a processing procedure of the green procurement apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described using a flowchart.
FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the green procurement apparatus according to the present embodiment. The green procurement processing program is activated by power-on or a user activation request, and processing is started.

  [Step S01] It is determined whether or not a request for downloading a legal restriction definition file has occurred due to an update of the legal restriction definition file. If there is no download request, the process proceeds to step S04.

  [Step S02] If there is a download request, the download unit 130 downloads the legal regulation definition file group 300 from the legal regulation data disclosure organization 200 connected via the network. Only the necessary legal and regulatory definition files may be downloaded.

[Step S03] Necessary information is added to the downloaded legal regulation definition file group 300 and stored in the legal regulation master 121.
[Step S04] The instruction input unit 140 determines whether a determination request is received from the user. If no determination request has been input, the process returns to step S01 and the process is repeated from the beginning.

  [Step S05] If a determination request is input, after extracting an if sentence from the target legal regulation definition file, a condition conformance determination is performed to determine whether or not the extracted if sentence conforms. Details of the processing will be described later. The condition conformance determination for each if sentence is determined by the condition conformance determination.

  [Step S06] Based on the condition conformance determination for each if sentence determined in step S05, the legal conformity determination is performed. Details of the processing will be described later. Whether the target data conforms to the target legal regulations is determined by the legal regulation conformity determination.

  [Step S07] The determination result of the regulatory compliance determination in step S06 is displayed on the display device and notified to the user. At this time, when the determination result is “conditional conformance”, supplementary information including the lack information is displayed together with the determination result.

  By executing the above processing procedure, the user can know whether or not an object such as a product or a part conforms to a predetermined legal regulation based on the latest legal regulation definition file. Even when information necessary for the determination is insufficient, a comment indicating the target data that is insufficient is displayed together with a provisional determination of “conditional conformance”, and is notified to the user. Then, it returns to step S01 and repeats a process from the beginning.

Next, processing procedures for condition conformance determination and legal regulation conformity determination will be described.
FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the condition conformance determination process of the green procurement apparatus according to the present embodiment. Processing is started with a judgment request.

[Step S51] The legal restriction definition analysis unit 111 extracts an if sentence from the target legal restriction definition file.
The processing from step S52 to step S56 is repeated for the number of extracted if sentences (n).

  [Step S52] The condition conformity determination unit 112 searches whether the data of the if statement target exists in the product master 122, the parts master 123, or the substance master 124. If there is data for the if statement, the process proceeds to step S54.

[Step S53] If the data of the if statement does not exist, the condition conformance determination (Ix) of this if statement is set to “unknown”, and the process returns to step S52 to process the next if statement.
[Step S54] If there is data for the if statement, it is determined whether or not the data meets the conditions described in the if statement. If not, the process proceeds to step S56.

  [Step S55] Since the detected target data conforms to the if sentence, the condition conformance determination (Ix) of this if sentence is set to “conform”, and the process returns to step S52 to process the next if sentence.

  [Step S56] Since the detected target data does not conform to the if sentence, the condition conformance determination (Ix) of this if sentence is set to “nonconformity”, and the process returns to step S52 to process the next if sentence.

By executing the above processing procedure, the condition conformance determination for n number of if sentences is performed.
FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing a procedure of legal compliance determination processing of the green procurement apparatus according to the present embodiment. The process is started after the condition conformance determination is performed according to the determination request.

  [Step S61] The legal and regulatory conformity determination unit 113 stitches together if sentences. That is, in order from the if statement in the determination execution procedure, the if statements are arranged in order by the conditional branch according to the condition conformance determination result of the if statement to form a conditional branch route.

[Step S62] It is determined whether or not there is an if for which the condition conformance determination is “unknown” in the conditional branch route. If not, the process proceeds to step S65.
[Step S63] If there is an “if” sentence that has been determined as “unknown” in the conditional branch route, the compliance with legal regulations is set to “conditionally relevant”, and supplementary information (comment text) corresponding to this if sentence is connected. Match.

[Step S64] The determination of “conditional conformance” and the combined comment text are displayed, and the process ends.
[Step S65] If there is no “if” statement that has been determined to be “unknown” in the conditional branch route, it is determined whether or not it complies with laws and regulations according to the conditional branch route. If not, the process proceeds to step S67.

[Step S66] When conforming to laws and regulations, it is determined as “conformity”, the legal conformity determination is displayed as “conformity”, and the process is terminated.
[Step S67] If it does not conform to the laws and regulations, it is determined as “non-conformity”, the legal regulation conformity determination is displayed as “non-conformity”, and the process is terminated.

  By executing the above processing procedure, a determination procedure reflecting the legal regulation logic is executed, and the result of the legal compliance determination is displayed on the display device. If the information is insufficient, a comment sentence corresponding to the insufficient information is displayed together with the determination result.

  The above processing functions can be realized by a computer. In that case, a program describing the processing contents of the functions that the green procurement apparatus should have is provided. By executing the program on a computer, the above processing functions are realized on the computer. The program describing the processing contents can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a magnetic recording device, an optical disk, a magneto-optical recording medium, and a semiconductor memory. Examples of the magnetic recording device include a hard disk device (HDD), a flexible disk (FD), and a magnetic tape. Optical disks include DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), DVD-RAM, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), CD-R (Recordable) / RW (ReWritable), and the like. Magneto-optical recording media include MO (Magneto-Optical disk).

  When the program is distributed, for example, portable recording media such as a DVD and a CD-ROM on which the program is recorded are sold. It is also possible to store the program in a storage device of a server computer and transfer the program from the server computer to another computer via a network.

  The computer that executes the program stores, for example, the program recorded on the portable recording medium or the program transferred from the server computer in its own storage device. Then, the computer reads the program from its own storage device and executes processing according to the program. The computer can also read the program directly from the portable recording medium and execute processing according to the program. Further, each time the program is transferred from the server computer, the computer can sequentially execute processing according to the received program.

(Appendix 1) In green procurement equipment that determines whether a product or part complies with specified environmental regulations,
Regarding the environmental regulations including environmental regulations and environmental standards, a regulation definition storage means for storing regulation conditions that define whether or not the environmental regulations are met, and regulation definition information that defines supplementary information about the contents of the judgment conditions When,
Data storage means for storing data relating to the product to be determined, the part constituting the product, and the substance constituting the part;
Restriction definition analysis means for reading out the restriction definition information of interest from the restriction definition storage means, analyzing the read restriction definition information, and extracting the determination condition;
For the extracted determination condition, the target data is searched from the data storage means, the target data is not detected when the target data is not detected, the conformity determination that the detected target data conforms to the determination condition, or the nonconformity determination of nonconformity Condition conformity determination means for performing the condition conformance determination of
Based on the condition conformance judgment by the condition conformity judgment means, the regulation conformity determination for the environmental regulations is determined, and the supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance determination is provided together with the regulations conformity determination as necessary. When,
A green procurement apparatus characterized by comprising:

(Supplementary Note 2)
According to the logic of environmental regulations, conditional branching is formed for each judgment condition according to the conditional conformity judgment to form a conditional branch route, and the target data no judgment exists in the conditional conformance judgment included in the conditional branch route. In this case, the regulation conformity determination is a provisional judgment, and the condition conformance determination combines the supplementary information corresponding to the determination condition without the target data to generate supplementary information for the regulation conformity determination.
The green procurement apparatus according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein

(Additional remark 3) The said regulation conformity determination means is
When determining the conditional branch route, if the condition conformance determination for the determination condition is the target data no determination, the condition conformance determination branches to the same route as the conformity determination,
The green procurement apparatus according to supplementary note 2, characterized by:

(Supplementary Note 4)
If the previous regulatory compliance determination is a tentative determination, based on the supplementary information, at least provide the target data necessary to determine the regulatory compliance determination,
The green procurement apparatus according to supplementary note 2, characterized by:

(Supplementary note 5)
Decoding a determination processing procedure described in a predetermined format in the restriction definition information according to the environmental regulation logic, and executing a process according to the determination processing procedure;
The green procurement apparatus according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein

(Supplementary note 6) The green procurement apparatus according to supplementary note 5, wherein the restriction definition information is described in a script language.
(Supplementary note 7)
Converting the supplementary information into a natural language, and displaying the supplementary information converted into the natural language together with the regulatory conformity determination on a display means;
The green procurement apparatus according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein

  (Supplementary note 8) The green procurement according to supplementary note 1, wherein the supplementary information includes a necessary condition related to the determination condition so that the regulatory conformity determination becomes a conformance determination based on the corresponding determination condition. apparatus.

(Supplementary note 9) In the Green Procurement Processing Program that determines whether a product or part complies with the prescribed environmental regulations,
Computer
Regarding the environmental regulations including environmental regulations and environmental standards, a regulation definition storage means for storing regulation conditions that define whether or not the environmental regulations are met, and regulation definition information that defines supplementary information about the contents of the judgment conditions A restriction definition analyzing means for reading out the restriction definition information of interest from the target, analyzing the read restriction definition information and extracting the determination condition;
For the extracted determination condition, target data is searched from data storage means for storing data relating to the product to be determined, the parts constituting the product and the substances constituting the part, and the target data is not detected. Condition conformity determination means for performing conformity determination of conformity determination or nonconformity nonconformity determination in which the detected target data conforms to the determination condition.
Based on the condition conformance judgment by the condition conformity judgment means, the regulation conformity determination for the environmental regulations is determined, and the supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance determination is provided together with the regulations conformity determination as necessary. ,
Green procurement processing program characterized by functioning as

(Supplementary Note 10) In a green procurement method for determining whether a product or part meets specified environmental regulations,
With respect to the environmental regulations including environmental laws and regulations, the regulation definition information that defines whether or not to comply with the environmental regulations and the regulation definition information that defines supplementary information regarding the contents of the judgment conditions are stored in the regulation definition storage means And a procedure for storing data relating to the product to be determined, the parts constituting the product, and the substances constituting the part in a data storage unit;
A regulation definition analyzing unit reads the target regulation definition information from the regulation definition storage unit, analyzes the read regulation definition information, and extracts the determination condition;
Condition conformity determination means retrieves target data from the data storage means for the extracted determination condition, no target data is detected in which the target data is not detected, and the detected target data conforms to the determination condition A procedure for performing the conformity judgment of the judgment or nonconformity judgment condition;
Based on the condition conformance judgment by the condition conformity judgment means, the regulation conformity judgment means determines the regulation conformity judgment for the environmental regulations, and if necessary, the supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance judgment together with the regulation conformity judgment. The steps to provide,
A green procurement method characterized by comprising:

It is a conceptual diagram of the invention applied to embodiment. It is a block diagram of the green procurement apparatus which performs the conformity determination regarding the regulation of embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structural example of the green procurement apparatus of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the 1st example of the regulation applied to this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the 1st example of the legal regulation definition file in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the 2nd example of the regulation applied to this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the 2nd example of the legal regulation definition file in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the relationship between the condition conformity determination of this Embodiment, and a legal regulation conformity determination. It is the figure which showed an example of the product table of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed an example of the components table of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed an example of the substance table of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed an example of the structure information of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the expansion | deployment of the display screen of the green procurement apparatus of this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed an example of the regulatory compliance determination result display screen of this Embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the processing procedure of the green procurement apparatus of this Embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the procedure of the condition conformity determination process of the green procurement apparatus of this Embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the procedure of the legal compliance determination process of the green procurement apparatus of this Embodiment.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Green procurement apparatus 11 Regulation definition storage means 12 Data storage means 12a Product information 12b Part information 12c Substance information 12d Configuration information 13 Regulation definition analysis means 14 Condition conformity judgment means 15 Regulation conformity judgment means

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In green procurement equipment that determines whether a product or part meets specified environmental regulations,
Regarding the environmental regulations including environmental regulations and environmental standards, a regulation definition storage means for storing regulation conditions that define whether or not the environmental regulations are met, and regulation definition information that defines supplementary information about the contents of the judgment conditions When,
Data storage means for storing data relating to the product to be determined, the part constituting the product, and the substance constituting the part;
Restriction definition analysis means for reading out the restriction definition information of interest from the restriction definition storage means, analyzing the read restriction definition information, and extracting the determination condition;
For the extracted determination condition, the target data is searched from the data storage means, the target data is not detected when the target data is not detected, the conformity determination that the detected target data conforms to the determination condition, or the nonconformity determination of nonconformity Condition conformity determination means for performing the condition conformance determination of
Based on the condition conformance judgment by the condition conformity judgment means, the regulation conformity determination for the environmental regulations is determined, and the supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance determination is provided together with the regulations conformity determination as necessary. When,
A green procurement apparatus characterized by comprising: The regulatory compliance determination means is
According to the logic of environmental regulations, conditional branching is formed for each judgment condition according to the conditional conformity judgment to form a conditional branch route, and the target data no judgment exists in the conditional conformance judgment included in the conditional branch route. In this case, the regulation conformity determination is a provisional judgment, and the condition conformance determination combines the supplementary information corresponding to the determination condition without the target data to generate supplementary information for the regulation conformity determination.
The green procurement apparatus according to claim 1. The regulatory compliance determination means is
Decoding a determination processing procedure described in a predetermined format in the restriction definition information according to the environmental regulation logic, and executing a process according to the determination processing procedure;
The green procurement apparatus according to claim 1. The regulatory compliance determination means is
Converting the supplementary information into a natural language, and displaying the supplementary information converted into the natural language together with the regulatory conformity determination on a display means;
The green procurement apparatus according to claim 1. In a green procurement processing program that determines whether a product or part conforms to specified environmental regulations,
Computer
Regarding the environmental regulations including environmental regulations and environmental standards, a regulation definition storage means for storing regulation conditions that define whether or not the environmental regulations are met, and regulation definition information that defines supplementary information about the contents of the judgment conditions A restriction definition analyzing means for reading out the restriction definition information of interest from the target, analyzing the read restriction definition information and extracting the determination condition;
For the extracted determination condition, target data is searched from data storage means for storing data relating to the product to be determined, the parts constituting the product and the substances constituting the part, and the target data is not detected. Condition conformity determination means for performing conformity determination of conformity determination or nonconformity nonconformity determination in which the detected target data conforms to the determination condition.
Based on the condition conformance judgment by the condition conformity judgment means, the regulation conformity determination for the environmental regulations is determined, and the supplementary information corresponding to the condition conformance determination is provided together with the regulations conformity determination as necessary. ,
Green procurement processing program characterized by functioning as

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