JP2007249870A - Electronic assembly procedure manual system and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic assembly procedure manual system allowing an on-site change of assembly procedure while eliminating such a procedure change that causes a design problem. <P>SOLUTION: The electronic assembly procedure manual system instructing assembly work in a factory comprises a server having a procedure editing function of editing procedure manual data of assembly work in the factory, and a client computer connected to the server through a network to display a procedure manual based on the procedure manual data from the server. The client computer comprises a procedure manual changing means for changing original procedure manual data transmitted from the server, on the client side, and a means for feeding back change point data changed on the client side, to the server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic assembly procedure manual system for instructing assembly work at an assembly plant such as a machine as factory production becomes IT, and in particular, an on-site assembly procedure that eliminates a procedure change that causes a design problem. It is related with the electronic assembly procedure manual system which made change possible.

In general, with the introduction of IT in factory production, assembly procedure manuals are also digitized in assembly factories such as machines.
As a conventional invention for this, Patent Document 1 is configured so that a large number of pairs consisting of a work standard described by standardized standard phrases and man-hours corresponding to the work standard are registered in advance and can be read out. For each of the target work standards to which man-hours are to be assigned, the target work standard word / phrase is matched with the standard word / phrase of the work standard in the standard man-hour database, and A technique of a man-hour automatic setting system that sets the standard man-hour of the matching work standard as the man-hour of the target work standard and outputs the set man-hour file is disclosed.

  As Patent Document 2, a work standard creation subsystem that creates each work standard data by describing a work standard with an action phrase, a purpose phrase, and a comment phrase, a work standard in which each record is described in the same manner, and its work standard A matching search is performed for each of the standard man-hour database consisting of the standard man-hours of the work standard and a plurality of work standard groups downloaded from the work standard creation subsystem, referring to the phrase part of each record of the standard man-hour database. A standard man-hour setting subsystem that assigns the standard man-hours of the retrieved work standards as set man-hours, and a work assignment subsystem that can input the data of knitting conditions, and the work with man-hour data from the standard man-hour setting subsystem The standard group is downloaded, and the work standard of this work standard group is copied based on the organization conditions entered by the user. Work assignment subsystem and assembly information management system consisting of a technique for organizing the stations division is disclosed.

  As Patent Document 3, a work related to each work standard is represented by one action phrase representing the action of the work, one purpose phrase representing the object of the action, and one piece of auxiliary information relating to the action and / or purpose. There has been disclosed a technique for inputting and describing three phrase data entered for each work standard in a memory together with an identifier by describing and inputting the comment phrase.

  As Patent Document 4, as the user teaches an animation in which a series of work flows in the production line are described in order using the support system, the support system performs each work based on the described animation. It automatically analyzes the movements of the workers involved, sets the man-hours necessary for each action based on the analysis results, and this support system further accumulates (accumulates) the man-hours set for each action, A technique for determining a standard man-hour (a unit of work in one process having a production line made up of a plurality of work processes) for a series of work intended by the user (attention) is disclosed.

Patent Document 5 records part quality information at the time of acceptance obtained by acceptance inspection of parts from the computer of the inspection department in the acceptance inspection result database, and also produces part quality at the time of production using the parts. Information is recorded in the acceptance inspection result database 55 from the computer of the manufacturing department, and when the acceptance inspection result database is accessed, the part quality information at the time of acceptance and the part quality information at the time of manufacture are linked to the display screen. A technique for displaying is disclosed.
JP 2001-195115 A JP 2001-195462 A JP 2001-195463 A JP 2001-207511 A JP 2003-122817 A

However, at the assembly work site of a factory, the work is rarely performed according to the assembly procedure determined at the time of starting up the product, and the assembly procedure is often changed by the improvement work at the site after the start-up.
In addition, points to be noted in the work are often found during the work. This point to be noted should also be included in the procedure manual. In this way, it is necessary to reflect the information obtained at the work site in the work procedure manual. It is more efficient to perform this reflection work only at the work site.

However, at the assembly work site alone, it is not known whether the process should not be changed in design.
Therefore, in the conventional technology, even if there is a means to revise the procedure manual, the correction on the site side cannot be controlled by the management side, or it is necessary to make all the corrections on the management side was there.
The present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems, and provides an electronic assembly procedure manual system that eliminates a procedure change that causes a design problem and enables a change in an assembly procedure in the field. That is.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a server having a procedure editing function for editing procedure manual data of assembly work in a factory, and is connected to the server via a network. An electronic assembly procedure manual system for instructing assembly work at a factory, wherein the client computer receives original procedure manual data sent from the server. It comprises a procedure manual changing means for changing on the client side, and means for feeding back the changed data changed on the client side to the server.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the client computer further feeds back the changed point on the client side to the server, and then locks the changed point data and receives the procedure manual data from the server. Means for clearing the lock in the case of failure.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in order to describe the difference between the original procedure data and the changed procedure manual data, the change point data includes a row replacement target row and the content after replacement, a row deletion target row, a row It is characterized by comprising a format composed of a set of three types of data of an additional target position and additional line contents.
According to a fourth aspect of the invention, the client computer further reproduces the changed procedure data from the original procedure manual data by using replacement, deletion, and additional information from the change point data. It has a change information reflecting means having a function to perform.
The invention described in claim 5 is characterized in that the client computer stores a storage medium storing a program for realizing the procedure manual changing means and the feedback means.

  According to the electronic assembly procedure manual system of the present invention, the original procedure manual and the changes in the client PC can be separated, the process can be changed on the client PC in the field, and the process manager Can be confirmed, and discrepancies between client PCs can be prevented.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of an electronic assembly procedure manual system according to the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, this electronic assembly procedure manual system is connected to a server 1 having a procedure editing device 2 for editing procedure manual data of assembly work in a factory, and a server 1 via a network 3. It comprises a client computer (PC) 5 having a procedure manual display device 4 for displaying a procedure manual used at a work site based on the procedure manual data.
Here, the server 1 may be at a work site, or may be in a different location as long as it is connected to each client PC 5 via the network 3, and the client PC 5 usually includes a plurality of units.

The procedure manual assembly process on the server 1 consists of all the processes handled by the server 1, and this procedure manual data is directly copied to each client PC 5, but the procedure manual display device 4 on the client PC 5 Only the process of the operator is selected and displayed.
The data always on the server 1 are “original procedure manual 6” and “original multimedia material 7”. Further, before the data update, “procedure manual change point 8” and “addition / replacement multimedia material 9” sent from each client PC 5 are added.

Here, the procedure manual is one text file, and the multimedia material is composed of files such as images, moving images, and sounds.
On the other hand, on the client PC 5, “original procedure manual 10” and “original multimedia material 11” copied from the server 1, and “procedure manual change point 8” which is change data in the client PC 5 are displayed. It consists of “addition / replacement multimedia material 9”.
Accordingly, the apparatus on the client PC 5 includes a procedure manual display device 4 for displaying the procedure manual, a procedure manual changing device 12 for changing the procedure manual, and a procedure manual copying device 13 for copying the procedure manual. It consists of three.

Next, the internal configuration of the procedure manual display device 4 on the client PC 5 will be described. FIG. 2 is an internal configuration diagram of the procedure manual display device 4 on the client PC 5.
As shown in FIG. 2, the procedure manual display device 4 includes a change information reflection unit 14 and a display control unit 15, and data of “original procedure manual 6” and “procedure manual change point 8” is stored in the change information reflection unit 14. The procedure manual data reflecting the changes can be obtained internally in the apparatus. That is, the change information reflecting unit 14 has a function of reproducing the changed procedure data from the original procedure manual data by using replacement, deletion, and additional information from the change point data.
The procedure manual data after reflection after the change is sent to the display control unit 15, and the multimedia data referred to by the procedure manual data is further sent to the display control unit 15.
The display control unit 15 further selects a process to be worked on this client PC among all processes, and an operation 17 from the display device user is input and reflected in the display on the reproduction display unit 16.
In the present embodiment, comma-delimited text is used as the procedure data, and the order of the text lines matches the order of the procedures.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a format of procedure data rows in the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the procedure data portion in the present embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a modified version of the procedure data shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, when the correction content is indicated by the top number, a part of the content of 20 is replaced and a content of 65 is added. Also, the order of 80 and 90 is switched.
FIG. 6 shows the data of all these changed information. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing change point information data based on the correction content shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6, in order to describe the difference between the original procedure data and the changed procedure manual data, the row replacement target row and the content after replacement, the row deletion target row, the row addition target position and the additional row content, The format is composed of a set of three types of data.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a format of this change point information and an example thereof.
FIG. 8 is an operation flowchart for each piece of information of the change point information data of the change information reflection unit 14 of the procedure manual display device 4. Here, processing is performed according to the type of information.
That is, in step 101, it is determined whether or not there is a row replacement target row instruction. If it is a row replacement target row instruction, it is replaced with the row replacement content (step 102). Is determined (step 103). In the case of an addition target line instruction, the content of the additional line is inserted (step 104), and when it is not an addition target line instruction, it is determined whether or not there is a deletion target line instruction (step 105). If it is a deletion target line instruction, the target line is deleted (step 106). If it is not a deletion target line instruction, the process ends.

FIG. 9 is an internal configuration diagram of the procedure manual changing device 12 on the client PC 5. The procedure manual changing device 12 edits text data of the procedure manual according to the format of the procedure manual.
In this embodiment, the procedure manual changing device 12 includes a process replacing unit 18, a process adding unit 19, an in-process editing unit 20, and an original difference extracting unit 21. The internal data edited by inputting the original procedure manual 10 therein. 22 is compared with the original 10, a difference is extracted, and it is set as the input data of a display apparatus. Note that the change of the reference of the multimedia data is realized by changing the part of the procedure manual that refers to the multimedia data in the in-process editing unit.

FIG. 10 is an internal configuration diagram of the procedure manual copy device 13 on the client PC 5.
The procedure manual copy device 13 includes a transmission copy unit 24, a reception copy unit 25, and a change lock / clear unit 26. After the transmission copy unit 24 feeds back the changed point to the server 1, the received copy unit 25 locks the change until the updated original is received from the server 1, and the procedure manual cannot be changed. Further, when the original updated by the reception copying unit 25 is received, the change data is cleared.

FIG. 11 is an internal configuration diagram of the procedure manual editing apparatus 2 on the server 1.
The procedure manual editing device 2 is for editing original data. The wrinkle detection unit 28 detects a change point in which there is a discrepancy among the change data sent from each client PC 5, and a wrinkle selection unit 29. Then, in the discrepancy detected by the wrinkle detection unit 28, which change is to be adopted is selected by the user's designation, and the change reflection unit 30 selects a change having no problem from the change data without the wrinkle. Select by specification and update the original with a reflection of it.

Next, an operation sequence of the electronic assembly procedure manual system will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an operation sequence of the electronic assembly procedure manual system shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 12, first, when the client PC is activated (A), the procedure manual copy device 13 copies the updated original procedure manual (B) from the server 1 (C) and further holds it on the client PC. Clear the changed data (D).
After copying the original, the client PC 5 changes the procedure using the procedure manual changing device 12 (E).
Before the operation of the client PC 5 is completed, the procedure data copy device 13 copies the change data for feedback to the server 1 (F), and locks the change data in the client PC 5 so that it cannot be changed (G). Thereby, the discrepancy between the data of the server 1 and the client PC 5 is eliminated.

After feedback (H) of copy of changes from all active client PCs 5 to the server 1 is completed, the process manager has no problem with the changes made by eliminating the discrepancy between the client PCs 5 in the procedure manual editing device 2 in the server 1. Are updated to reflect the original data in the original data (I, J).
Repeat the above operation.

  As described above, the server and client PC are used as computers, and the change information is stored on the client PC, so that the change manager can incorporate the change information on the server at an appropriate timing. It is possible to reflect in the original. Furthermore, the original update is performed by the process manager, so that it is possible to eliminate a procedure change that causes a design problem.

It is the schematic of one Embodiment of the electronic assembly procedure manual system by this invention. It is an internal block diagram of the procedure manual display apparatus 4 on client PC5. It is a figure which shows the format of the line of the procedure data in this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the part of the procedure data in this embodiment. It is a figure which shows what corrected the procedure data shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the change point information data based on the correction content shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the format of change point information, and its example. It is an operation | movement flowchart with respect to each information of the change point information data of the change information reflection part 14 of the procedure manual display apparatus 4. FIG. It is an internal block diagram of the procedure manual change apparatus 12 on client PC5. It is an internal block diagram of the procedure manual copy apparatus 13 on client PC5. 2 is an internal configuration diagram of a procedure manual editing device 2 on a server 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement sequence of the electronic assembly procedure manual system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Server, 2 ... Procedure manual editing apparatus, 3 ... Network, 4 ... Procedure manual display apparatus, 5 ... Client PC, 6 ... Original procedure manual, 7 ... Original multimedia material, 8 ... Procedure manual change point, 9 ... Multi Media material, 10 ... original procedure manual, 11 ... original multimedia material, 12 ... procedure document change device, 13 ... procedure document copy device, 14 ... change information reflection unit, 15 ... display control unit, 16 ... reproduction display unit, 17 ... Operation, 19 ... Process addition part, 20 ... In-process editing part, 21 ... Original difference extraction part, 22 ... Internal data, 24 ... Transmission copy part, 25 ... Reception copy part, 26 ... Change lock / clear part, 28 ...齟齬 detection unit, 29 齟齬 齟齬 selection unit, 30… change reflection unit

Claims (5)

A server having a procedure editing function for editing procedure manual data of assembly work in a factory, and a client computer connected to the server via a network and displaying the procedure manual based on the procedure manual data from the server, An electronic assembly procedure manual system for instructing assembly work in a factory,
The client computer has procedure manual changing means for changing original procedure manual data sent from the server on the client side, and means for feeding back the changed data changed on the client side to the server. Electronic assembly procedure manual system.   The client computer further feeds back a change point changed on the client side to the server, locks the change point data, and clears the lock when receiving procedure manual data from the server. The electronic assembly procedure manual system according to claim 1, further comprising:   In order for the change point data to describe the difference between the original procedure data and the changed procedure manual data, the line replacement target line and the contents after replacement, the line deletion target line, the line addition target position and the additional line content 3 2. The electronic assembly procedure manual system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic assembly procedure manual system comprises a format composed of a collection of seed data.   The client computer further includes change information reflecting means having a function of reproducing the changed procedure data from the original procedure manual data by using replacement, deletion, and additional information from the change point data. The electronic assembly procedure manual system according to claim 3.   2. A storage medium storing a program for realizing the procedure manual changing means and the feedback means in the client computer of the electronic assembly procedure manual system according to claim 1.

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