JP3192257B2 - Manufacturing support equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a manufacturing support apparatus suitable for use in manufacturing various products, for example, a high-mix low-volume product such as a switchboard or a control panel.
In particular, a touch-type color display device is adopted in place of the drawing, the data for the manufacturing operation required for the manufacturing operation is displayed, and based on the displayed manufacturing operation data, the manufacturing operation location and its related locations are clearly specified. The present invention relates to a manufacturing support device for performing a manufacturing operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, an FA system for controlling an NC machine tool or a robot employs a computer-assisted manufacturing system commonly called a CAM, and manufactures various products using design data of a computer-aided design system. Is being done. However, for example, distribution boards and control panels often take the form of build-to-order production.
Robots are extremely difficult because of the high-mix low-volume production, and at present it is necessary to rely on manual work.

[0003] Incidentally, in the conventional method of assembling and wiring a switchboard, a control panel, and the like, as shown in FIG. 8, necessary design data is built in advance in a computer-aided design system 1 called CAD and stored in a memory. Sometimes, the design data is read from the memory and the assembly drawing 3, connection diagram 4, article list 5, etc. are output from the printer 2 in the form of paper. The manufacturing worker attaches the products to the required locations and performs wiring and the like while looking at the drawings such as the assembly drawings 3 and the connection diagrams 4 and the list of the product list 5 and the like. Etc. are manufactured.

At this time, a connection diagram 4 obtained from the design data of the computer-aided design system 1 is created in a format as shown in FIG. 9, for example. That is, the articles 8a... 8n, 9a... 9n and the like are arranged on the surface of the sheet 7 in the form of a mounting diagram, and the X coordinate is set to "1" to "n", Y
The coordinates are divided in the form of address numbers using alphabets of "A" to "Z", and the mounting positions of the articles 8a to 9n are indicated from the combination address numbers A1 to Zn, while the address numbers of the address numbers A1 to Zn are indicated. The wiring instruction is indicated from the alphanumeric characters in the frame. Now, a specific example of wiring instructions will be described.
In the case of No. 1, the terminal number "1" is used to change the line number "123
45AB ", wire color" Y "(yellow), wire type" C "
(# 91 vinyl), wire size "E" (1.25m
m ² ), And the terminal number “1” of the address number An is used.
No. 4 "is instructed to be connected.

When wiring work for a switchboard, a control panel, or the like is performed using the connection diagram 4 shown in FIG. 9, line numbers are painted out each time wiring is completed, so that no wiring leakage occurs. Measures have been taken. Note that the line number details 10 in FIG. 3 indicate abbreviations generally used in the connection diagram 4.

[0006]

However, the manufacturing system as described above requires a manufacturing worker to directly look at several to dozens of drawings constructed by the computer-aided design system 1 and to use the drawings. As the manufacturing work proceeds while memorizing the contents, as the number of drawings increases, mistakes in reading and misunderstanding of the drawings, as well as manufacturing errors such as oversight occur, and in order to reduce the manufacturing errors When checking is regarded as important, work efficiency is increasingly reduced.

[0007] In particular, in the case of the assembly drawing 3, an assembling article is searched for from the article list 5, and the assembling is performed while confirming the type and rating of the article, so that a very long working time is required. In the case of the connection diagram 4, the connection destination is searched for, the line number, the terminal number of the connection destination, the type of wire to be used, the color, the size, and the like are checked.
In many cases, the stored contents are forgotten, and it is necessary to reconsider the connection diagram 4 or to confirm the connection destination again from the viewpoint of error prevention.

[0010] On the other hand, the manufacturing worker fills necessary portions of the drawing every time an individual operation is completed, checks whether there is any error in the manufacturing operation, and prevents leakage of the manufacturing operation due to color filling. However, as a result, the number of drawings becomes very large, and since many drawings must be viewed at the same time,
The possibility of frequent check errors due to misunderstanding or misunderstanding increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and shortens the time required to find a place to attach an article or a wiring place, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of manufacturing work, and reducing errors caused by mistakes or oversights. It is an object of the present invention to provide a manufacturing support device that avoids the problem in advance.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a manufacturing support apparatus for supporting manufacturing of a manufacturing object using design data constructed by a computer-aided design system. In addition to a plurality of types of manufacturing work data unified from the design data along the manufacturing work procedure, menu display data and manufacturing work data
Storage means for storing data of the work on the various necessary, touch input of the menu display data in accordance intermediate products number based on the screen displayed by the start of operation, the double
In one touch selection in several types of manufacturing operations for the data
A touch-type color display device that displays a certain type of manufacturing operation data related to the manufacturing object number, and an arbitrary color based on the certain type of manufacturing operation data screen displayed on the touch-type color display device. by sequentially reading the predetermined data are given in the manufacturing equipment, the manufacturing
A work place reading means for inputting a work place required for the article;
While blink displayed on the touch color display device reads the work pieces Tokorode over data of the production goods from the storage means on the basis of the read data input from the working position reading means, the production from the previous term memory means display reads the work data necessary, and, in manufacture support apparatus provided with the manufacture support data control means for the stationary lighting display by changing the color of the blinking display portion receives a touch operation completion according to working position is there.

[0011]

Accordingly, the invention corresponding to claim 1 takes the above-described measures, and allows the user to input the manufacturing number of the manufacturing object by the stutter based on the menu display screen displayed on the touch-type color display device. When touch selection of manufacturing work data (assembly, connection, etc.) related to the work is performed, the manufacturing support data control means controls the manufacturing number of the manufacturing object input by touch and the manufacturing work such as touch-selected assembly or connection. Based on the data, required data for the manufacturing operation of the object to be manufactured related to the serial number is read from the storage means and displayed on the touch-type color display device.

Here, a manufacturing worker uses a reader to read data (for example, in the case of an assembly drawing display, the shape and rating of the assembled product or the instrument number, etc.) attached to the manufactured product necessary for the manufacturing operation. (In the case of the display of connection diagram, it means the line number etc.), and based on the read data, the relevant work place and related places are blinked, detailed display of supplies, clarification of work places and wiring Specify the connection destination. After that, the manufacturing workers, and to complete the work of the work place, which is displayed in detail, when the touch-designated of the work completed in the touch-sensitive color display device, because it still lit by the changing color of the blink display part, work Finish portion easily be recognized, you can proceed to the next task.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a basic configuration of a manufacturing support apparatus according to the present invention. This manufacturing support apparatus includes, for example, a computer-aided design system 12 that constructs and stores various types of design data according to a network 11 and instructions of a designer,
Is connected to a manufacturing support controller 13 that edits and stores the design data constructed in the above into a plurality of types of manufacturing work data unified into manufacturing work procedures, and further stores menu display data and various data necessary for manufacturing. ing. Here, a plurality of types of manufacturing work data means, for example, assembly drawing data, connection drawing data, and product data as described in the conventional example, but also various data according to a request of a designer or a user. Including. Further, the manufacturing support control device 13 includes a touch-type color liquid crystal display and other well-known color display devices 14 and a reader 15 such as a CCD, a bar code reader, and a hand-held input device.
Is connected.

The touch-type color display device 14 performs a touch input of a manufacturing number and a touch selection of manufacturing operation data such as assembly or connection on the basis of a menu display screen displayed at the start of operation, and displays the data based on the touch result. It has a function of sequentially touching and specifying necessary work locations according to the work situation from among the display contents of the manufacturing work data.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 2, the manufacturing support controller 13 can display design data constructed by the computer-aided design system 12 based on a sequence program, that is, a plurality of types of work integrated into a manufacturing work procedure. Edits display data (assembly drawing data, connection diagram data, article data, etc.), and touch-type color display device 14
A manufacturing support data control unit 21 for reading necessary work display data based on the touch content from the user and displaying the data on the touch-type color display device 14, and a plurality of types of work displays converted by the manufacturing support data control unit 21 A data storage unit 22 for storing menu display data and data necessary for manufacturing, and a manufacturing support data control unit 2.
A design data transmission unit 23 that exchanges data between the device 1 and the touch-type color display device 14, a read data recognition unit 24 that recognizes the content read by the reader 15 and sends it to the manufacturing support data control unit 21. It is constituted by. The menu display data and data necessary for manufacturing may be stored in a storage unit other than the data storage unit 22 shown.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a menu display screen displayed on the touch-type color display device 14 when an operation start command for performing manufacturing support is received.
1. Areas such as a work selection screen 32, a production number input menu 33, and a key section 34 are displayed.

Therefore, when inputting the serial number of the switchboard or control panel to be manufactured in this state, the manufacturing worker must
When the "input" key of the key section 34 is touched and the "serial number" of the serial number column 31 at the upper side of the screen is further touched, the content of the touch is recognized, and the first digit of the serial number column is blinked. You. Here, the manufacturing worker selects and touches the first alphanumeric character to be input of the serial number from the serial number input menu 33. By the way, when "T" is touched on the serial number input menu 33, "T" is displayed at the first digit of the serial number column 31, and thereafter, the serial number column 3
The second digit following 1 is blinked.

Thus, the serial number input menu 33
After touching the alphanumeric characters sequentially and inputting the alphanumeric serial numbers in all the digits of the serial number column 31 to complete the process, touching the "execute" key at the bottom of the screen causes the touch type color display device 14 to be touched. Is sent to the manufacturing support data control unit 21. Here, the manufacturing support data control unit 21 reads out the design data (CAD data) corresponding to the serial number from the computer-aided design system 12 via the network 11 and, for example, assembles drawing data, connection diagram data according to the manufacturing operation procedure. The data storage unit 22 by editing the
To memorize.

After touching the "execute" key of the key section 32, the manufacturing worker, based on the menu display screen, selects one of the assembly drawings, connection diagrams, etc. corresponding to the serial number.
For example, when an "assembly drawing" is to be displayed, after touching "assembly drawing" in the work selection screen 32 and then touching the "execute" key, the screen of the touch-type color display device 14 is displayed from the menu display screen. The screen switches to the screen shown in the figure. When the production number is completely entered in the production number column 31, the customer name and the delivery date are specified if necessary.

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of a screen display of an assembly drawing. An article selection display section 41 such as a switchboard or a control panel, an article window screen 42 for displaying article data of the reader 15 read from the article, and various items. Key section 43 and the like having the above operation items are displayed.

After the manufacturing worker touches the "input" key of the key section 43 to set the "input" mode in the display state of such an assembly drawing, one of them is indiscriminately moved from the article storage box of article data. The product is taken out, and the type, rating, or instrument number of the product is read by the reader 15. For example, the read article is the article number "21" in the article selection display section 41.
In the case of, the item number "21" blinks to indicate the mounting location to the manufacturing worker, and the name, format, and the like of the item arranged for the item "21" are displayed on the item window screen 42 shown by a dotted frame. The rating, equipment number, etc. are displayed. Here, the manufacturing worker operates the article window screen 42.
It is checked whether or not the displayed content of the item is the same as the content of the read item, and if they are the same, the device is assembled at the location of the item number "21".

After completion of the assembly of the article, "completed"
When the key is touched, the blinking of the article number "21" is stopped, and as the completion of the assembling, for example, the still lighting display by another color change is performed. In this way, other articles are sequentially assembled in the same manner. When there are n identical articles such as the article number "27", each time the reader 15 reads an article, the article is displayed one by one from one direction (for example, from the left side).

Therefore, the colors of the articles are different between the completed assembly and the non-assembled sections due to the above processing, and unless the assembly of each article is completed, it does not change to the color corresponding to the completion of each article. The unfinished part is clearly understood. In addition, when there is a product whose assembly has not been completed when the key of “work completed” is touched, all the uncompleted products are blink-displayed to remind the user. In the case of an assembly drawing that cannot be displayed in one screen of the touch-type color display device 14, the screen can be divided and displayed, and the “previous screen” and “rear screen” keys of the key unit 43 are used to divide the divided screen. Display in the same way.

This means that the conventional manufacturing worker has searched for a large number of assembling drawings and a list of supplies and searched for the necessary supplies for the assembling work from the supply storage box, while proceeding with the work. In the case of the present apparatus, the articles taken out indiscriminately are read by the reader 15, and the installation location of the read articles and the names and ratings of the articles are displayed, so that the assembling work efficiency can be improved. it can.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a connection diagram display screen when a "connection diagram" is touched in the work selection screen 32 of the menu display screen shown in FIG. Address number display section 5 of A1 to An, E1, which are arranged as shown in FIG.
1, a window screen 52 and a key section 53 are displayed.

In FIG. 5, when performing the wiring, the manufacturing worker first touches the "input" key of the key section 53 to set the "input" mode. Next, one tube mark with a line number prepared in advance is extracted indiscriminately. Then, the line number of the tube mark is read by the reader 15. For example, when the line number “12345AB” is read by the reader 15, the connection destination position “An” belonging to the terminal number “1” of the address number “A1” which is one of the address number display sections 51 and the connection destination Is the address number "A
Since the connection destination position "A1" of the terminal number "B" of the "n" flashes automatically, the connection destination of the wire number "12345AB" becomes clear and the color of the wire used for wiring above the key portion 53 , Electric wire type, electric wire size, and connected address number are displayed.

Accordingly, the manufacturing worker attaches the tube mark of the wire number "12345AB" and the crimp terminal to the specified electric wire by referring to these data, and the terminal number of the address number "A1" and the address number "An". And terminal number “B”. And when the manufacturing worker completes the wiring enforcement,
When the “Done” key is touched, the blinking connection destination position stops blinking, and changes to a color to change to a stationary lighting display.

When there are n lines having the same line number, the connection destination positions are displayed in ascending order of the address numbers from among the unwired lines. The tube mark with the line number is automatically created in advance from the design data of the computer-aided design system 12.

On the other hand, the connection diagram that cannot be displayed on the display screen of the touch-type color display device 14 divides the screen in the same manner as described above, and when the connection destination article is not within one screen, for example, the reader 15 shown in FIG. When the line number "56789CD" is read, the connection destination position "S9" of the terminal number "2" of the address number "A1" blinks and the connection destination article is not present on the screen. 52, the connection destination position "A1" of the terminal number "A" of the address number "S9" blinks. Further, when there is an unwired portion when the "work end" key is touched, all unwired connection destination positions are blinked to warn of a wiring leak.

When another screen is displayed, for example, when the screen of the connection diagram of FIG. 5 is changed to the screen of the assembly diagram of FIG. 4, the menu screen shown in FIG. Expand from Next, the operation of the device configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, in FIG. 6, when the power is turned on to the touch-type color display device (LCD) 14, a step ST1 is performed.
After confirming whether or not the power is turned on, the manufacturing support data control unit 21
Then, the menu display data is read from the data storage unit 22 or the like, and the menu display screen is displayed on the screen of the display device 14 as shown in FIG. 3 (ST2). Thereafter, the manufacturing worker touches and selects a serial number of a switchboard or a control panel requiring assembly wiring from the serial number input menu 33 to sequentially input each digit of the serial number column 31. Touch the "execution" key of No. 3 (ST3).

When the manufacturing support data control unit 21 shown in FIG. 2 receives the serial number from the touch-type color display device 14, the computer-aided design system 12 sends the design ( CA
D) After reading the data (ST4), work display data unified so as to be displayed on the touch-type color display device 14 based on the manufacturing work procedure is stored in the data storage unit 22 (ST5). Thereafter, when the "assembly drawing" and the "execute" key are touched on the menu display screen of FIG. 3 as in step ST6, the assembly drawing is read out from the data storage unit 22 and assembled on the touch-type color display device 14 as shown in FIG. The figure data is displayed (ST7).

In this state, the manufacturing worker extracts the assembled product from the product storage box and causes the reader 15 to read the product code (ST8). Here, when there is read data from the reader 15 as shown in ST9, the contents of the read data are recognized by the read data recognizing unit 24, and the corresponding read data is selected from the article data already stored in the data storage unit 22. Extract supplies. If there are n pieces of the same product data in the extracted products as shown in ST10, a location with a lower number (for example, the upper side and the left side is prioritized) is selected from the incomplete assembly work (ST11), and the read input product is selected. Is blinked on the LCD (ST12), and detailed contents of the article extracted from the data storage unit 22 are displayed on the window screen 42 (ST13).

Therefore, the manufacturing worker checks whether or not the blinking display location of the LED and the article data displayed on the window screen 42 are the same as the contents of the read article. The article is attached to the blinking display area of the LCD (ST14). Then, when the "complete" key is touched as shown in step ST12 after the completion of the attachment of the article, the blinking article is changed to a color indicating that the work is completed, the state is changed to the stationary lighting state, and stored as the completed assembly work (ST16). ). Further, when the manufacturing worker extracts the next assembly article and causes the reader 15 to read the next article code (ST17), it recognizes that the reader 15 has been re-input (ST18), and proceeds to step ST17. And the same operation is repeated.

On the other hand, as shown in ST18, when there is no re-input by the reader 15 and the "operation end" key is touched (ST19), all the places of the unattached articles are displayed on the LCD.
Flashes on and off (ST20), and ends the process by alerting the manufacturing worker. If it is determined in step ST19 that “work has been completed”
If no key is touched, the process ends.

When it is determined in step ST6 that an assembly drawing has not been selected, step S6 in FIG.
The process shifts to T21, where it is determined whether or not a connection diagram is selected. That is, the “connection diagram” in the menu screen of FIG.
Is touched and the "execute" key is touched, it is determined in ST21 that the connection diagram has been selected, and the manufacturing support data control unit 21 reads out the connection diagram data in the data storage unit 22 and reads out the connection type data. 14 is displayed as shown in FIG. 5 (ST22).

Thereafter, the manufacturing worker reads the tube mark on which the line number is written using the reader 15 (ST23). If there is read data from the reader 15 (ST24), whether there is only one line number identical to the line number,
It is determined whether there are n (ST25). If there are n wiring locations, a wiring location having a lower address number is selected from the incomplete wiring work (ST26). If the input line number is less than one in step ST25, the process proceeds to step ST25.
Proceed to 27. In this step ST27, the connection destination position corresponding to the input line number is blinked and displayed, and the data of the electric wire to be used is displayed on the lower side of the screen of FIG. The manufacturing worker attaches a tube mark of a wire number to the electric wire specified by the display data, further attaches a crimp terminal, and wires between the blinking and displayed connection destination positions (ST28). When the "Complete" key is touched when wiring is completed (ST29), the blinking display of the blinking connection position is stopped, the color is changed to static lighting, and the line number and the connection destination position are wired. It is stored as the work completion (ST30).

When the manufacturing worker reads the tube mark on which the next line number is written by the reader 15 (ST31), it judges that there is a re-input from the reader 15 (ST32), and again the line is read. It is determined whether or not there are n identical numbers (ST25), and the same operation is repeated.

On the other hand, in step ST32, the reader 1
When there is no re-input by 5 and the "work end" key is touched (ST33), all unwired locations are blinked on the LCD (ST34), and the manufacturing worker is warned that there is an unwired location. Prompt and end. If there is no touch on the “work end” key in step ST33, the process ends.

Therefore, according to the configuration of the embodiment described above, instead of looking at several to dozens of drawings, the work display data is selectively read out in accordance with the work contents and one touch type The user can easily see the product on the color display device 14, and conventionally, when assembling the product according to the assembly drawing, the user has to search for the required product from a large number of product storage boxes. Since the product is taken out and the code attached to the product is read, the time for searching for the product can be greatly reduced.

On the other hand, in the case of the connection diagram, conventionally, the place where the wiring is to be performed is determined, and then the tube mark with the line number is searched. Since the connection destination is automatically blinked and displayed from the mark, the wiring work can be performed quickly, and the unfinished portion can be checked by touching, so that the manufacturing work time can be greatly reduced.

In the above embodiment, it is needless to say that various work display data can be displayed according to the user's request. In addition, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention, the data of an arbitrary article is read by the reading means, and the installation location and the wiring location are blink-displayed on the display means. As a result, it is possible to provide a manufacturing support apparatus which can greatly improve the efficiency of the manufacturing operation as compared with the related art, and can avoid mistakes caused by mistakes or oversights.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a basic configuration diagram of a manufacturing support apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram showing a main part of the manufacturing support apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a menu display screen of the touch-type color display device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of assembly drawing data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen display example of connection diagram data.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart mainly explaining operations related to an assembly drawing;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart mainly explaining an operation mainly related to a connection diagram;

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of a conventional manufacturing system.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing a connection diagram used in a conventional manufacturing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Network, 12 ... Computer-aided design system, 13 ... Manufacturing support control device, 14 ... Touch-type color display device, 15 ... Reader, 21 ... Manufacturing support data control part, 22 ... Data storage part, 23 ... Data transmission part , 24 ...
Read data recognition unit.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A manufacturing support apparatus for supporting manufacturing of an object to be manufactured using design data constructed by a computer-aided design system, comprising: a plurality of types of data integrated from the design data along a manufacturing operation procedure; Storage means for storing menu display data and various data necessary for the manufacturing operation, in addition to the manufacturing operation data, and a touch of a manufacturing object number based on a screen related to the menu display data displayed by the start of operation. input,
One touch selection from the plurality of types of manufacturing work data
Accordingly, a touch-type color display device for displaying the type of manufacturing operations for data that is related to intermediate product number, the one type displayed on the touch-type color display device
By sequentially reading predetermined data attached to any manufacturing article based on the manufacturing work data screen ,
Work location reading to enter the required work location for the product
Means and, while blink from the storage means on the basis of the read data input from the working position reading means on the work pieces Tokorode over the touch-type color display device reads the data of the manufacturing equipment, before Symbol storage means And a display for reading and displaying data necessary for the manufacturing operation from the device, and a manufacturing support data control means for receiving the touch of the completion of the work related to the work location and changing the blink display portion to a stationary lighting display by changing colors. The manufacturing support device characterized by the above-mentioned.