JP2011170753A - Design data management device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a design data management device by which upstream design information can be easily acquired from an upstream design document prepared in a list format, and information on change accompanied by the revision of specifications can be easily reflected in upstream design. <P>SOLUTION: A format file with a document prepared in a list format is analyzed by a format analyzing part 10 and exchange rule data is created. Upstream design information 80 is acquired from an upstream design document 50 by an upstream design document information acquiring part 20. Revised upstream design information is acquired from an upstream design document 60 revised when a specification is changed by an upstream design change management part 30, and upstream design change information indicative of the change is recorded. At the downstream side, the upstream design information 80 is referred to downstream design information 150, and acquired by performing downstream design, and the change is accumulated as downstream design change information 160, and displayed in acquiring the revised upstream design information on the upstream side. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a design data management apparatus that supports sharing of upstream design information and collaboration work among a plurality of designers at a stage from specification meeting with a customer in a wide area monitoring control system to downstream design.

In the conventional plant comprehensive engineering support system, an engineering database is constructed, and project engineering support is performed for the purpose of plant comprehensive construction, test adjustment, trial operation, comprehensive plant management of comprehensive operation, and automatic document creation. In addition, when the design information of the upstream department is not compatible with the system of the section in charge of the downstream design, there is provided a means for converting it so as to be compatible with the system. (See Patent Document 1)
Furthermore, with regard to change point management at the time of specification changes from customers, which is one of the purposes of sharing upstream design information, it extracts differences in database design information and manages CAD data associated with design information This makes it easy to communicate changes to downstream designers and automatically notifies relevant parties. (See Patent Document 2 and Patent Document 3)

JP 2008-84051 A (19th to 24th pages, FIG. 1) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-39356 (pages 3 to 4, FIG. 1) JP-A-7-141405 (pages 4-9, FIG. 1)

Since the conventional engineering support apparatus is configured as described above, it is possible to create a drawing such as a drawing created by CAD, or a document such as an item table automatically extracted from CAD data. There is no problem when a meeting is held.
However, when a meeting between a designer and a customer is conducted to construct a wide-area monitoring and control system, the transmission items used for communication between the base station and the slave station corresponding to the monitoring control target are listed. Meetings are performed based on the documents, and in order to create a database of the contents of the meetings in the design, it is necessary to convert the documents in the list format used for the meetings into data.
In addition, the list format document does not have a standardized format as shown in the drawings, so a different format must be used for each customer. There was a problem that the conversion had to be carried out in an individual way each time.

In addition, when a document in a list format is converted into data as described above, the format is often converted using the application used to create the document. Therefore, if the specification changes, the same will occur again. There is also a problem that it is necessary to perform a conversion operation, and man-hours are required to keep the upstream design information in the latest state.
Furthermore, if the upstream design information and the downstream design information that are first converted into data are associated with each other and the specification is changed during the downstream design stage, the upstream design information cannot be deleted. Therefore, it is necessary to selectively reflect only the changed points, but in the situation where the format is individually converted, there is no change point reflecting device that can be used universally, and the man-hour for reflecting the changed data is reduced. There was a problem of becoming enormous.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and can easily acquire upstream design information even from an upstream design document in a list format document, and can also change information associated with revision of the specification to the upstream design. The purpose is to obtain a design data management device that can be easily reflected in the design.

  In the design data management apparatus according to the present invention, a format analysis unit that analyzes a format file having a document in a list form and creates conversion rule data for converting the contents of the document into document information, the format analysis unit An upstream design document information acquisition unit that acquires upstream design information from an upstream design document created by upstream design using the created conversion rule data, and conversion rules from an upstream design document that is revised when a specification change occurs Use the data to acquire the revised upstream design information and record the revised upstream design information change part, the upstream design change management part, the upstream design information or the upstream design obtained by the upstream design document information acquisition part Upstream design information that captures information necessary for downstream design from the revised upstream design information acquired by the change management unit Based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit and the upstream design information acquisition unit, the downstream design information created by the downstream design is input to the downstream design information input unit and the downstream design information input to the downstream design input unit. A downstream design change management unit that records the change unit, and the upstream design change management unit is an upstream unit corresponding to a specification change before the specification change and a change unit of the downstream design information recorded until the specification change occurs. The change part of design information is displayed.

  As described above, the present invention analyzes a format file having a list-format document and creates a conversion rule data for converting the document contents into document information. Using the converted conversion rule data, the upstream design document information acquisition unit that acquires the upstream design information from the upstream design document created by the upstream design, the conversion rule data from the upstream design document revised when the specification change occurs To acquire the revised upstream design information and record the revised upstream design information change part, the upstream design change management part, the upstream design document information acquisition part, the upstream design information or the upstream design change An upstream design information acquisition unit that captures information necessary for downstream design from the revised upstream design information acquired by the management unit. Based on the information fetched by the flow design information acquisition unit, the downstream design information created by the downstream design is recorded as the downstream design information input unit, and the downstream design information change unit input to this downstream design input unit is recorded. A downstream design change management unit, and the upstream design change management unit changes the downstream design information recorded before the specification change occurs and changes in the upstream design information corresponding to the specification change before the specification change. Can be obtained from upstream design document files that have different formats for each customer, and upstream design information can be acquired without man-hours. Information can be reflected in upstream design information.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the format analysis part of the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the upstream design document information acquisition part of the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the design data management apparatus by Embodiment 5 of this invention.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, the design data management apparatus includes an upstream design unit 110 operated by the upstream designer operation unit 100 and a downstream design unit 180 operated by the downstream designer operation unit 170.

Next, the configuration of the upstream design unit 110 will be described.
When the upstream designer operation unit 100 operated by the upstream designer sends the format file 40 that is the source of the document in the list form format, the format analysis unit 10 reads the format file 40, analyzes the format, Conversion rule data 70 for converting the contents of the document into data is created.
When the upstream design document file 50 designed by the upstream designer is sent from the upstream designer operation unit 100, the upstream design document information acquisition unit 20 reads the upstream design document file 50 and the conversion rule data 70, Based on the conversion rule data 70, the upstream design document file 50 is converted into upstream design information data and acquired, and stored as upstream design information 80.
When the upstream design document file 60 revised by the upstream designer is sent from the upstream designer operation unit 100 to the upstream design change management unit 30, the upstream design change management unit 30 (upstream design change management unit) revises. The upstream design document file 60, the conversion rule data 70, and the upstream design information 80 are read. Then, a change point (change part) is extracted from the difference between the revised upstream design file 60 and the upstream design information 80, the upstream design change point information 90 reflected in the upstream design information 80 in the past revision, and the revision is performed. Upstream that has been revised based on the input data related to whether or not to reflect the change point, while the downstream design change point information 160 (to be described later) changed in the downstream design is displayed on the upstream designer operation unit 100. The design information is stored in the upstream design information 80, and the change point is recorded in the upstream design change point information 90.

Next, the configuration of the downstream design unit 180 will be described.
The upstream design information acquisition unit 120 that operates asynchronously reads the upstream design information 80 and the upstream design change point information 90 and stores them in the downstream design information 150 while converting them into information necessary for the downstream design.
The downstream design input unit 130 (downstream design information input unit) to which the request from the downstream designer operation unit 170 operated by the downstream designer is input causes the downstream designer operation unit 170 to display the contents of the downstream design information 150. On the other hand, the downstream designer performs the downstream design in the downstream designer operation unit 170 and accumulates the input data in the downstream design information 150. The downstream design change point management unit 140 (downstream design change management unit) accumulates the change points in the downstream design change point information 160 when the downstream design information 150 is input.

When implementing the design data management device, the upstream design unit 110 and the downstream design unit 180 can be mounted on a single device, or when the upstream designer and the downstream designer work in a distributed manner. Alternatively, the upstream design unit 110 and the downstream design unit 180 may be mounted on a plurality of distributed devices, and the plurality of devices may be linked via a network to implement the whole as a virtual design data management device.
Furthermore, it goes without saying that data can be collected and integrated into a database server, and implemented in cooperation with a network.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the format analysis unit of the design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the upstream design document information acquisition unit of the design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Next, the operation will be described.
First, the operation of the format analysis unit 10 in the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
The purpose of the format analysis unit 10 is to store the format of the document in the list as a conversion rule, and this is realized by examining the relationship between the title column of the list and the upstream design item.
For this purpose, the format analysis unit 10 reads the format file 40 and acquires the print range, thereby specifying the range of rows and columns to be analyzed as a list (step S10), and based on the specified range, In order to analyze the rows and columns in ascending order, a row index for designating the rows is initialized (step S20), and the iterative processing for the rows is performed between step S30 to step S120.
In the repetition of the row, the column index is also initialized for the column (step S40), and the repetition process for the column is performed between step S50 and step S100.

As a process to be repeated, a character string described in one cell (cell) of the table specified by the row index and the column index is acquired (step S60), and the upstream design stored in the character string is stored. It is determined whether or not the item name matches (step S70). If the character string and the upstream design item name match as a result of the determination, the upstream design item name, the row index, and the column index are converted. Record in the rule data 70 (step S80).
In step S90, the column index is added, and in step S110, the row index is added, and the iterative process is performed to cover the analysis range. It becomes possible to grasp the arrangement status of the item names corresponding to the upstream design items in the column.

Further, in step S130, the conversion rule data 70 is read and the change status of the row index and the column index is checked. When the row is constant and the column is changed, the title column is described in the row. If the column is constant and the row is converted, it can be determined that the title column is listed in the column, so that each series of data will be arranged in the column direction, It can be determined whether the lines are arranged in the row direction, and the result is recorded in the conversion rule data 70.
In step S140, the conversion rule data 70 is read, and the starting point (upper side or left side) of the data range is obtained from the minimum and maximum values of the row index and column index of the title block and the data arrangement direction obtained previously. And recorded in the conversion rule data as a data range.
Here, the comparison between the character string in the cell and the upstream design item name performed in step S70 takes into account that the list is used for a meeting with the customer, and considers that the unit is written together. , Compare whether or not it contains a string instead of an exact match, or compare with a formatted string in consideration of line breaks and mixed full-width / half-width to improve the appearance This makes it easy to find data corresponding to the upstream design item.

Next, the operation of the upstream design document information acquisition unit 20 in the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
The upstream design document information acquisition unit 20 is intended to acquire information related to upstream design from the input upstream design document file 50. Here, an operation for selecting data corresponding to the upstream design item will be described.
For this purpose, the upstream design document information acquisition unit 20 reads the conversion rule data 70, acquires the previously recorded data arrangement direction (step S210), and acquires the data range (step S220). It is determined whether the data arrangement direction is the column direction or the row direction (step S230). If the data direction is the column direction, step S240 to step S360 are executed, and if it is the row direction, step S370 to step S490 are executed. Execute.
These are either repeated columns (between steps S250 and S360) (between steps S270 and S330) or repeated columns (between steps S380 and S490). Only the former (between step S240 and step S360) will be described here.

In this case, since a series of data is arranged in one row and a plurality of series of data are arranged in the column direction, the row index is initialized in the outer loop (step S240) and added at the end of the repetition of the row (step S350). In the inner loop, the column index is initialized (step S260), and added at the end of the repetition of the column (step S320), whereby each data in the series of data is designated by the row index and the column index. Can be obtained by reading the inside of the cell (step S280).
Since the contents of the cells are continuously acquired, it is determined whether or not the obtained data corresponds to the upstream design item (step S290). If applicable, the upstream design is stored in the primary storage (step S310). The item and the data in the cell are stored (step S300).
When the repetition of the column is completed, a series of data is accumulated in the primary storage (step S310), and this is written in the upstream design information 80 as data for one record. The data included in the upstream design document file 50 is accumulated in the upstream design information 80 at the stage where the entire repetition is completed.

According to the first embodiment, the upstream design unit has a format analysis unit that reads a format file that is a source of a document in a list form, analyzes the format, and creates conversion rule data, and further uses the conversion rule data. The upstream design document acquisition unit converts the upstream design information from the upstream design document file and acquires it, so upstream design information can be obtained from the upstream design document file that has a different format for each customer without man-hours. Can be acquired.
In addition, the downstream design unit has an upstream design information acquisition unit that acquires upstream design information necessary for downstream design, and when the downstream designer performs downstream design and inputs the downstream design information, changes are extracted. When the revised upstream design document file is input, the upstream design part extracts changes from the difference from the upstream design information and revise Changes in time, changes in downstream design changes in ongoing downstream design, and past changes in upstream design information are displayed so that upstream designers can check the displayed contents and make changes due to revision of specifications. Since the information can be reflected in the upstream design information, the number of man-hours for reflecting the specification change point can be reduced.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
4 is a functional block diagram showing a design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
In FIG. 4, 10 to 180 are the same as those in FIG. In FIG. 4, a title vocabulary analysis unit 190 is provided in the upstream design unit 110, and the synonym is recognized using the synonym data 200 defining the synonym, so that even a title using the synonym can be obtained. The format analysis unit 10 can perform analysis.

In the first embodiment, it is described that the character string included in the cell of the format file 40 is compared with the upstream design item in step S70 indicating the operation of the format analysis unit 10, but the second embodiment is illustrated in FIG. As shown in the figure, a title vocabulary analysis unit 190 is provided, and character strings are compared a plurality of times by the number of synonyms using the definition of synonyms included in the synonym data 200.
Thus, the upstream design information can be acquired even if the title column of the list is created using the vocabulary according to the meeting with the customer.

  According to the second embodiment, even if a synonym is described in the title column of the list, the upstream design information can be acquired by analysis using synonym data.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram showing a design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
In FIG. 5, 10 to 200 are the same as those in FIG. In FIG. 5, the upstream design unit 110 is provided with a format instruction analysis unit 210 (format instruction recognition unit) for recognizing an instruction due to a format difference such as a background color, which is utilized for format analysis.

In the first embodiment, in step S140 indicating the operation of the format analysis unit 10, the range of data in the format file 40 is determined as conversion rule data 70 from the row index and column index alignment indicating the recorded cell. In the third embodiment, the upstream design unit 110 is provided with the format instruction analysis unit 210 that recognizes an instruction based on a format difference such as a background color.
In the third embodiment, before inputting the format file 40, an operation of manually specifying the cell format, such as painting the data range of the list, the title field, and the blank portion using the cell background color, is performed. There is a need to do. Then, as shown in FIG. 5, a format instruction analysis unit 210 is provided in the upstream design unit 110 to recognize an instruction due to a format difference such as a background color, and the data range can be handled separately from the title column or blank part. I did it.
Thereby, the format analysis unit 10 can analyze the format with higher accuracy. For example, data is described continuously, but without using a function that automatically repeats the title column for each page at the time of printing, the graphic format forming the page is arranged by the number of pages (a revision column should be provided for each page) This method is adopted when there is information that fluctuates in a part of the format and is specified by the customer), and the data range is determined as instructed from a format in which the data separated for each page is arranged. be able to.

  According to the third embodiment, since the format instruction analysis unit is provided in the upstream design unit, the format analysis by the format analysis unit can be performed with higher accuracy.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram showing a design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
In FIG. 6, 10 to 210 are the same as those in FIG. In FIG. 6, the upstream design unit 110 is provided with a deletion data analysis unit 220 (deletion data determination unit) that analyzes deletion data using the deletion rule 230.

In the first embodiment, it has been described that the characters in the cell corresponding to the design item are written as data in steps S300 and S430 indicating the operation of the upstream design document information acquisition unit 20, but in the fourth embodiment, The upstream design unit 110 is provided with a deletion data analysis unit 220 that analyzes deletion data using a deletion rule 230.
In the fourth embodiment, when a change that has occurred as a result of a meeting with a customer is reflected in an upstream design document, a deletion character line is attached to a character string to be deleted. Then, the deletion data analysis unit 220 discriminates the character string with the erasing line of the upstream design document and deletes it, so that the upstream design information can be acquired according to the custom of document creation. .

In the fourth embodiment, when meeting with a customer, when reflecting a change made as a result of the meeting in the upstream design document, the character string to be deleted is marked with a strike-through line before the change. When the upstream design document file 50 including the data in which the description item is left or the revised upstream design document file 60 is input, the deletion data analysis unit 220 uses the deletion rule 230 as shown in FIG. In addition, the character string with the erasing line is discriminated and not input to the upstream design information 80 or deleted. As a result, it is possible to acquire upstream design information in accordance with document creation habits.
Here, the deletion rule 230 prepares typical patterns such as an attribute value indicating deletion as a character format and an attribute value indicating deletion using a cell background color / ruled line pattern, as well as an upstream designer who is a user. However, it is possible to customize the method of indicating deletion.
As an example of this method, there is a method of recording a series of operations for indicating that the character string has been deleted, and regarding a character string that is in the same state as that generated by the registered operation as being deleted. . As an example of usage, if a rule such as deleting a cell on the right side of a cell to which a deletion mark is to be added is determined, register the operation to add the deletion target cell and the deletion mark. In data acquisition, data that is registered in the upstream design information 80 is regarded as deletion, and upstream design document information acquisition processing can be performed.

  According to the fourth embodiment, the deletion data analysis unit is provided in the upstream design unit, and the deleted character string is surely deleted from the upstream design information. Therefore, the upstream design information in accordance with the document creation habits. Can be obtained.

Embodiment 5 FIG.
FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram showing a design data management apparatus according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention.
7, 10 to 230 are the same as those in FIG. In FIG. 7, a downstream design knowledge analysis unit 280 operated by the designer operation display unit 270 is provided. The downstream design knowledge analysis unit 280 receives the upstream design change location input unit 240 to which the designated upstream design change location is input from the designer operation display unit 270 and the upstream design change location in relation to the input upstream design change location. The design change point analysis unit 250 (design change analysis unit) that analyzes the relationship between the change point information 90 and the downstream design change point information 160, and the downstream that displays the analysis result by the design change point analysis unit 250 on the designer operation display unit 270. And a design change location display unit 260.

In the first embodiment, when the changed points of the revised upstream design document file 60 are reflected in the upstream design information 80, the changed points of the revised upstream design document file 60 and the upstream design information 80 and whether or not the change is reflected are determined. Describes a method for easily obtaining necessary change information among a plurality of designers by displaying the upstream design change information 90 and the downstream design change information 160 for the upstream designer to judge. However, in the fifth embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the downstream design knowledge analysis unit 280 is provided to display only the downstream design change point information related to the designated upstream design change part.
When the upstream design change point designated by the designer operation display unit 270 is input to the upstream design change point input unit 240, the design change point analysis unit 250 relates to the upstream design change point and changes the upstream design change point. The relationship between the point information 90 and the downstream design change point information 160 is analyzed, and the analysis result is displayed on the designer operation display unit 270 by the downstream design change point display unit 260.
For this reason, only the downstream design change point information related to the upstream design change point designated by the designer operation display unit 270 can be displayed.

According to the fifth embodiment, the downstream design knowledge analysis unit is provided, and only the downstream design change point information related to the upstream design change point designated by the designer operation display unit is displayed. It is possible to grasp the spillover points of specification changes and enhance the effect of information sharing.

10 format analysis unit 20 upstream design document information acquisition unit 30 upstream design change point management unit 40 format file 50 upstream design document 60 revised upstream design document 70 conversion rule data 80 upstream design information 90 upstream design change point information 100 upstream designer Operation unit 110 Upstream design unit 120 Upstream design information acquisition unit 130 Downstream design input unit 140 Downstream design change point management unit 150 Downstream design information 160 Downstream design change point information 170 Downstream designer operation unit 180 Downstream design unit 190 Title vocabulary analysis unit 200 Synonym data 210 Format instruction analysis unit 220 Delete data analysis unit 230 Delete rule 240 Upstream design change location input unit 250 Design change point analysis unit 260 Downstream design change location display unit 270 Designer operation display unit 280 Downstream design knowledge analysis unit

Claims (5)

A format analysis unit that analyzes a format file having a document in a list form and creates conversion rule data for converting the content of the document into document information;
An upstream design document information acquisition unit that acquires upstream design information from an upstream design document created by upstream design using the conversion rule data created by the format analysis unit,
The upstream design change that acquires the revised upstream design information from the revised upstream design document when the specification change occurs, and records the revised part of the revised upstream design information, using the conversion rule data. Management Department,
An upstream design information acquisition unit that captures information necessary for downstream design from the upstream design information acquired by the upstream design document information acquisition unit or the revised upstream design information acquired by the upstream design change management unit;
Based on the information captured by the upstream design information acquisition unit, the downstream design information created by the downstream design is input to the downstream design information input unit,
A downstream design change management unit that records the change unit of the downstream design information input to the downstream design input unit,
The upstream design change management unit displays the downstream design information change unit recorded until the specification change occurs and the upstream design information change unit corresponding to the specification change prior to the specification change. Design data management device characterized by A synonym data that defines synonyms for the words used in the title column of the list-format document is provided with a title vocabulary analysis unit that analyzes the title column of the list-format document,
The format analysis unit refers to the analysis result of the title vocabulary analysis unit, and creates the conversion rule data according to the relationship between the title column of the list-format document and a preset upstream design item. The design data management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: A format instruction recognizing unit for recognizing an instruction of the format when the format of the document is instructed in advance in the format file;
3. The design data management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the format analysis unit creates the conversion rule data with reference to the format instruction recognized by the format instruction recognition unit. When the revised upstream design document is subjected to processing indicating deletion in the character string before the change, the deletion design determination unit determines the processing indicating the deletion of the revised upstream design document,
The upstream design change management unit obtains the revised upstream design information from the revised upstream design document with reference to a determination result by the deletion data determination unit. Item 4. The design data management device according to any one of Items 3 to 4. Upstream design change part input part to specify the upstream design change part,
A design change analysis unit for analyzing a relationship between the change unit of the upstream design information related to the upstream design change point specified by the upstream design change point input unit and the change unit of the downstream design information;
5. A downstream design change location display section for displaying a change portion of the downstream design information related to the upstream design change location based on an analysis result by the design change analysis portion. The design data management apparatus according to any one of the above.

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