JP2018041423A - Program and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the drawings, work instructions, 3D/2D+configuration information, 4D-PHD, CAM data, trihedral figures, production control data, inspection performance records, photographs, videos, etc., irrespective of whether digital or analog, to be drawn up into a server and provided in a state of being browsable on a client device, especially given that, unlike transaction documents such as purchase orders, contracts and estimates and work instructions that are not necessarily used by small-and medium-sized manufactures, the drawings are used by almost all small-and medium-sized manufactures.SOLUTION: The present invention, designed to add various data one after another centering on drawings, helps small-and medium-sized manufactures lower the hurdles on visualization and paperless endeavors, significantly contributing to passing on techniques and winning orders.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a program and a storage medium that unify data held by a user.

  The environment surrounding small and medium-sized manufacturers is changing greatly due to changes in the society as a whole through the Internet, and increasing productivity and internationalization through digitization and smartization of the entire factory is an urgent issue.

  The management goal common to small and medium-sized manufacturers is to realize “connected factories” and “thinking factories”, to increase orders from all over the world, and at the same time to pass on internal know-how to future generations, making factories visible and paperless These are themes that should be specifically promoted.

Patent 5451166 Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2015-184761 JP 2014-203409 A JP 2011-53999 A

  However, even if consulting with manufacturers in the IT industry, machine tool industry, etc., realization requires enormous costs, and it is not in harmony with current equipment assets. Is not disclosed.

  Here, in the small and medium-sized manufacturing industry in Japan, it is the mainstream to print necessary documents created by operating a personal computer and place orders by facsimile transmission / reception. As supporting data, according to the SME Basic Survey Report (Financial Results for FY2010), only 7% of corporations and individual business owners have introduced electronic commerce. In addition, there are still many cases where transactions are made only by oral promises without any documents such as purchase orders, contracts, and quotations.

  For small and medium-sized manufacturers, know-how possessed by skilled workers is a major source of competitiveness. In other words, how efficiently a skilled worker can engage in work for a long time occupies the top priority as a management issue in the small and medium-sized manufacturing industry. If the know-how possessed by a skilled worker is original, it is preferable that it is made manual by a work instruction or the like and made known to more workers.

  On the other hand, the training of backwards, the introduction of IT technology, and the proficiency of IT technology by employees do not directly lead to short-term profit improvement such as immediate sales and costs. It is not very high.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a mechanism for realizing a smart factory without using a large-scale investment such as new equipment by effectively utilizing existing machines and software assets which are assets of a small and medium-sized manufacturing industry.

(Program structure)
A step of receiving, via a communication module, image additional information relating to a work object, text, or multimedia information to be viewed by a user, and drawing data illustrating the work object stored in advance in a storage area And the received drawing additional information data as sub-information accompanying the main information, the step of associating the main information with the sub-information, and the step of storing the drawing additional information data in the storage area. A program that runs on a computer.

(Configuration of storage medium)
Drawing data showing the work object, drawing additional information data which is image, text, or multimedia information related to the work object and used for viewing by the user, and the drawing data is the main information, and the drawing additional information data is the main information. A storage medium storing association data associated as sub-information accompanying the information.

According to the present invention, the drawings, work instructions, 3D / 2D + configuration information, 4D-PHD, CAM data, three-sided drawings, production management data, inspection report, photographs, videos, etc. held by the manufacturer are digitally / analogized. Regardless of the server, it is possible to provide them in a state where they can be browsed on the client device. In particular, the drawings are used by almost all small and medium manufacturers, unlike transaction documents such as purchase orders, contracts, and quotations, and work instructions, which are not always used by small and medium manufacturers.

For this reason, the present invention in which various types of data are added with the drawing as the axis lowers the hurdles for small and medium-sized manufacturing industries to make the factory visible and paperless, greatly contributing to technology transfer and winning orders.

The figure explaining the process which registers drawing additional information data with a server which is basic embodiment of this invention. The figure explaining the process which browses the drawing additional information data registered into the server by various terminals which is basic embodiment of this invention. The flowchart explaining embodiment of this invention The flowchart explaining embodiment of this invention The flowchart explaining embodiment of this invention The figure explaining the process which accesses drawing additional information data by the user authentication by the code reading module which is an Example of this invention

  The outline of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the server 100 receives and stores drawing additional information data transmitted from various terminals (NC, personal computer, smartphone, facsimile) owned by the service user.

  Drawing additional information data includes work instructions, 3D / 2D + configuration information, 4D-PHD, CAM data, three-sided drawings, production management data, inspection report, Gantt chart, quotation, purchase order, contract, photograph, video, etc. It is. The format of the original data is not particularly limited.

  The transmission of data from various terminals includes automatic transmission such as automatic transmission to the server 100 at the time of facsimile transmission / reception, for example, in addition to manual transmission by accepting an operation by a user.

  In addition, the server 100 converts the received drawing additional information data into data in a format (for example, PDF, 3D-PDF, etc.) that can be browsed by a general-purpose client device as necessary.

  The drawing additional information data uploaded to the server 100 in this way is stored in the server 100 in association with the drawing data showing the work target. The association with the drawing data will be described later.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the drawing additional information data is presented to the user together with the drawing data when browsing the drawing data, and displays data requested by the client device.

(Register drawing data)
A process of registering drawing data serving as a database axis will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In particular, in the small and medium manufacturing industry, a manual such as a work instruction is not always created. In many cases, transactions are made only with oral promises without any documents such as purchase orders, contracts, and quotations.

  In this respect, there are always drawings for manufacturing, regardless of the scale of business.

  Therefore, when integrating documents in the small and medium-sized manufacturing industry, it is necessary to construct a database that uses the drawings that show the work target as main information and other documents as additional information. It is the most efficient.

  The server 100 receives the drawing data from the service user's terminal. The format of the original data of the drawing is not particularly limited.

  Next, the server 100 converts the original data into data in a format that can be browsed by a general-purpose client device as necessary.

  Further, the server 100 assigns a drawing code (drawing ID) that uniquely specifies the drawing to the drawing data.

(Registration of additional drawing data)
A process for registering drawing additional information data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  Various drawing additional information data includes work instructions, 3D / 2D + configuration information, 4D-PHD, CAM data, three-sided drawings, production management data, inspection report, photographs, videos, etc. More preferably, after being transmitted to the server 100, it is automatically associated with the drawing data by a program stored in the server 100.

  The association between various drawing additional information data and drawing data is as follows: (1) a drawing code that uniquely identifies drawing data is detected from metadata previously included in the drawing additional information data; If only printed on paper, the corresponding drawing code is detected from the scanned image data by OCR (optical character recognition), (3) If the drawing code cannot be detected by (1) and (2) above, or If there is an error in the drawing code, it must be entered manually by the operator of the system provider.

  If the drawing code cannot be detected, similar drawing additional information data may be detected and the same drawing code may be assigned by comparing the contents with the drawing additional information data already associated with the drawing code.

  Such association between the various drawing additional information data and the drawing code can use a known association method or an association method devised in the future.

  In addition to the drawing code, the drawing additional information data is associated with metadata such as time (original data creation date / time sent to server 100, etc.), data creator, etc. as a tag. It is preferable to be stored in

(Browsing of drawing data and drawing additional information data)
The browsing of drawing data and drawing additional information data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  When the server 100 accepts access from the client device 200, the server 100 requests authentication of a user account.

  For the authentication of the user account, since an existing authentication method such as “user ID + password” can be used, individual description is omitted.

  When the server 100 receives a request from the client apparatus 200, the server 100 displays a list of drawing data held by the user account on the client apparatus 200, and prompts the user to select desired drawing data.

  When the selection of the drawing data is received, the server 100 causes the client device 200 to display a list of drawing additional information data associated with the drawing data, and prompts the user to select the drawing additional information data desired by the user.

  When the selection of the drawing additional information data is received, the server 100 causes the client device 200 to display the selected drawing additional information data.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a drawing pattern encoded with a drawing code is attached to the drawing and printed, and the reading pattern is read by a code reading module such as a bar code reader, thereby drawing data and drawing additional information. A technique for accessing data may be adopted.

(Other)
In addition to the modules described above, it goes without saying that each device includes a processor, storage, memory, input module, and the like necessary for operating the module.

  In addition, each hardware component in the present invention is functionally conceptual and does not necessarily need to be physically separated.

(Conclusion)
The embodiment described above is described for facilitating understanding of the present invention, and is not described for limiting the application of the present invention.

  Further, the configuration of the hardware device, the program related to each hardware operation, the data format, the program language, and the like in the present invention do not depend on specific ones, and the above-described embodiment is merely an example.

  Therefore, each element disclosed in the above embodiment includes all design changes and equivalents belonging to the technical scope of the present invention.

  The present invention mainly has industrial applicability as a support system for manufacturing and other industries.

100 server 200 client device

Claims (2)

Receiving, via a communication module, drawing additional information data that is image, text, or multimedia information related to a work object and that is used for browsing by a user;
The step of associating the main information and the sub information with the drawing data illustrating the work object stored in advance in the storage area as the main information, the received drawing additional information data as the sub information accompanying the main information,
Storing the drawing additional information data in the storage area;
A program that runs on a computer with Drawing data showing the work target,
Additional image data, which is image, text, or multimedia information related to the work object, and is used by the user for viewing.
Associating data in which the drawing data is main information, and the drawing additional information data is associated as sub-information accompanying the main information;
A storage medium that stores

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