JP4586602B2 - Product development activity analysis apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a product development activity analysis technique for analyzing activities in an organization from the viewpoint of product architecture.

  As a study of product development management in business studies, there is “product architecture” as a concept that captures products by the nature of the system. Broadly called business architecture, it is distinguished from business processes and business models. This is defined as the interdependence or relationship between various activity elements in a business process, and is expressed by changes in the system properties of modularization and integration.

  In other words, in the “product architecture” method, the nature of a product as a system is explained as “the nature of a system described by a pattern of interdependencies between components”, and further, “modularization” and “ It is expressed by a change called “integration”. "Modularization" is a "strategy that recognizes the light and darkness seen in the interrelationships between the elements that make up the system, and connects the parts that can be relatively ignored by a ruled interface." The system is recognized as “a collection of relatively independent component groups (modules)”. On the other hand, “integration” is a “strategy that actively allows complex interrelationships between elements and frees the interrelationships for continuous reconciliation”. The components will be recognized as “complexly related”.

  An example of the former is the product architecture of a personal computer. Multiple components such as hard disks, memory, CD drives, monitors, and keyboards have standardized connection specifications (interfaces) in the industry, so many vendors of these component parts have to strictly adhere to the connection specifications. It is possible to reduce the cost of adjustment and adjustment between other component parts vendors and components. Therefore, it is easy for many companies to enter, and as a result of competition, the price per component part tends to decrease.

  However, the systematic recognition of such products (or business) can be interpreted differently by each participant, such as the designer of individual parts or the project leader of the entire product. It was difficult to express. On the other hand, a corporate organization optimizes a product architecture while optimizing an organizational structure or a distribution route of information for efficient product design. For this reason, excessive adaptation of the organizational structure to the architecture is a drag, which can lead to business failure due to failure to adapt to different product architectures or incorrect technical evaluation. It was.

It is desirable to ensure that the interpretation of all or many participants is reflected in the perception by the product architecture. It is also desirable to ensure that product architecture can be recognized when it becomes a constraint on organizational activities.
The following are known as patent documents related to the present invention.

  Patent Document 1 proposes to generate and share global network data from local network data. However, with this proposal, the number of contacts can be obtained, but the proportion of joint activities and individual activities cannot be obtained.

  Patent Document 2 proposes a technique for acquiring network information from message information via a network and managing it as personal network information. Even with this method, the number of contacts can be obtained, but the ratio of joint activities and individual activities cannot be obtained.

Patent Document 3 proposes a method for expressing an enterprise architecture for business, which includes a business architecture, an information technology architecture, and an enterprise management framework. However, this proposal is aimed at building a model that participants can understand in common, and is not expressed in comparison with the actual activities of the participants.
JP-A-10-301905 JP 2000-66970 A Special table 2003-524825

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and visualizes product architecture information reflecting the frequency of mutual adjustment and the frequency of individual adjustment acquired from the activity history of the participants. More specifically, the object is to individually obtain product architecture information from the participants and generate overall product architecture information.

  In the configuration example of the present invention, the following method is adopted. Hereinafter, the product to be developed is sometimes called a product.

(1) Generate structure information of the entire product (also referred to as product architecture information) from local structure information about the product.
(2) Automatically acquiring network information (including exchange information) of product participants within a predetermined period. The network information of the participants is a network configured by communication between the participants.
(3) Visualize the nature of the product structure based on the network information of the product participants.
(4) Visualize systematic redundancy other than the product structure based on the network information of the product participants.
In addition, a participant may be called a person in charge or a person (human).

  In this configuration example, the product architecture information can be individually obtained from the participants and the entire product architecture information can be generated. Further, the product architecture information can be visualized by reflecting the frequency of mutual adjustment and the frequency of individual adjustment acquired from the activity history of the participants, and the difference between the organization and the development activity can be visualized.

  Further, the present invention will be described. For convenience of explanation, reference numerals used in the embodiments described below are added. However, this is not intended to limit the technical scope of the invention.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above-described object, the product development activity analysis apparatus 1: based on the information acquired from each of the product development participants, the product parts as nodes Product architecture information acquisition means 10 for acquiring structure information of product architecture with the relationship between them as a link; and, based on the activity history of the participant, the participant is a node and the amount of activity between the participants is a link Human network information acquisition means 20 for acquiring information on a human network that performs mapping of the product architecture and the human network based on the directly involved component information, and at least one of nodes and links of the product architecture; An integration means 30 for assigning the corresponding activity amount; and the product architecture to which the activity amount is assigned. So that it provided the Shimesuru information visualizing means 40.

  According to this configuration, the interpretation of all participants or many participants can be reflected in the recognition by the product architecture. In addition, it is possible to display the amount of activity of the participants in association with the product architecture, and to grasp the divergence between the product architecture and the actual organizational activity.

  Product development activities refer to product-related activities such as product development, innovation, and change.

  As the amount of activity, it is possible to use the activity time, personnel cost, the ratio of the activity time and personnel cost to the total amount, and the like.

  The product architecture information acquisition means typically has a large relationship with each of the participants involved in the development of the product, the directly involved component information for identifying the component with which the participant is directly involved, and the component. The related part information for identifying the part is acquired, and based on the directly involved part information and the related part information, the structure information of the product architecture having the part of the product as a node and the relationship between the parts as a link is acquired.

  In this configuration, when a plurality of participants are directly involved in one component, it is preferable that the plurality of participants are grouped, and the activity amount of the group is the activity amount at the corresponding node and link.

  In addition, it is preferable that the activities of the participants include joint activities and individual activities, the activity amount of the individual activities is displayed in association with the node, and the joint activities are displayed in association with the link.

  In addition, when there is an activity amount between the participants corresponding to each of the two nodes not connected by the link, it is preferable to display that the activity amount exists. Such display may be performed when there is an amount of activity equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.

  Moreover, when there is no activity amount between the participants corresponding to it of two nodes connected by the link, it is preferable to display that there is no such activity amount. Note that it may be evaluated that there is no activity when it is smaller than a predetermined threshold.

  The activity amount of the node may be displayed by an autoregressive arc.

  Further, at least one display mode of the link and the arc may be changed according to the amount of activity. For example, the thickness of the link or arc line may be changed.

  The length of the link may be changed according to the amount of activity of the link.

  The amount of activity of the participant is calculated based on time information existing in a predetermined range determined based on position information by an RFID tag, for example.

  You may obtain | require the activity amount between the said participants by the communication amount of electronic communications, such as an email and an instant message. A single activity of the participant may be determined by maintaining a task history.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above-described object, the product development activity analysis apparatus 1: for each of the participants in product development, the part in which the participant is directly involved Each of the above-mentioned products from the information for identifying the parts directly related to the part concerned and information for identifying the parts directly related to the part. Structure determination means 10A for determining the arrangement of the nodes of the parts and determining the arrangement of the links between the nodes of the parts from the information for identifying the parts having a large relevance to the parts; storing the activity history of the participants The activity history holding means 20B to be operated by the participant at each of the parts nodes and the links between the parts based on the activity history of the participants stored in the activity history holding means. Cormorant Activity and determining activity amount determining means 20A; the above parts of the node, the display unit 40A for displaying the links and the amount of activity between the components, so that provided and 40B.

  Even in this configuration, the interpretation of all participants or many participants can be reflected in the recognition by the product architecture. In addition, it is possible to display the amount of activity of the participants in association with the product architecture, and to grasp the divergence between the product architecture and the actual organizational activity.

  According to still another aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, the product development activity analyzing apparatus 1 includes: product architecture information holding means 10C for holding product architecture information of a predetermined product architecture; The human network information acquisition means 20 for acquiring information on a human network that links the amount of activity between the participants based on the activity history of the participants based on the activity history of the participants; Integration means 30 for mapping the product architecture and the human network based on direct participation part information indicating whether or not the part is directly involved, and assigning a corresponding activity amount to at least one of the nodes and links of the product architecture; Information visualization means 40 for displaying the product architecture to which the activity amount is assigned; It is provided.

  In this configuration, the amount of activity of participants is displayed in association with the product architecture, and the discrepancy between the product architecture and the actual organizational activity can be grasped.

  The present invention can be realized not only as an apparatus or a system but also as a method. Of course, a part of the invention can be configured as software. Of course, software products used to cause a computer to execute such software are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  These and other aspects of the invention are set forth in the appended claims and will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to display the amount of activity of the participants in association with the product architecture, and to grasp the divergence between the product architecture and the actual organization activity. Also, in a specific configuration, the interpretation of all participants or many participants can be reflected in the recognition by the product architecture.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

[Schematic configuration of embodiment]

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a product development activity analysis system as a whole. As will be described later with reference to FIG. 2, the product development activity analysis system 1 is realized in a client-server system environment, but may be realized in a stand-alone environment. The various functional blocks shown in this embodiment are realized by cooperating computer hardware and computer software. For example, the server program 101 is installed in the server computer 100, and the agent program 202 is similarly installed in the client. This is realized by installing in the terminals 200 and 201.

  Here, the system of the embodiment is referred to as a product development activity analysis system, but there are various ways to call it according to various implementations. For example, the system may be referred to as an organization activity analysis system. It is included in the technical scope of the invention.

  In FIG. 1, the product development analysis system 1 includes a product architecture information acquisition unit 10, a human network information acquisition unit 20, an information integration unit 30, and an information visualization unit 40. The product architecture information acquisition unit 10 has, for each person involved in product development, directly involved part information that identifies a part that the person is directly involved in, and a related part that identifies a part that is highly related to the part. Information is acquired, and based on these directly involved component information and related component information, product architecture structure information is acquired with the component of the product as a node and the relationship between the components as a link. Product architecture structure information is also referred to as product architecture information. The human network information acquisition unit 20 acquires human network information that uses the participant as a node and links the amount of activity between the participants based on the activity history of the participant. The information integration unit 30 integrates product architecture information and human network information. Specifically, the information integration unit 30 maps the product architecture and the human network based on the directly involved component information, and the product architecture. A corresponding activity amount is assigned to at least one of the nodes and the links. The information visualization unit 40 displays the product architecture to which the activity amount is assigned. Details of each of the product architecture information acquisition unit 10, the human network information acquisition unit 20, the information integration unit 30, and the information visualization unit 40 will be described below.

[Implementation configuration]

  FIG. 2 shows an implementation form of the product development activity analysis system 1 of FIG. 1. In this figure, a server computer 100, client terminals 200 and 201, and a sensor system 400 are connected to a communication network 300. Although only one server computer 100 is shown, a plurality of servers may be provided to provide various services as a whole. The client terminals 200 and 201 are typically personal computers, but are not limited thereto, and may be various portable information terminals, for example. A large number of client terminals are usually provided.

  The server computer 100 executes processes of an architecture information acquisition service 10A, a human network information acquisition service 20A, an information integration service 30A, and an information visualization service 40A. The client terminal 200 implements an architecture information acquisition user interface 10B. The client terminal 201 implements an information visualization user interface 40B.

  The architecture information acquisition service 10A stores the participation information from the product development participants and the architecture information generated based on the participation information in the participation information / architecture information database 10C. As will be described later, the architecture information acquisition service 10A operates to acquire the participation information from the product development participant via the architecture information acquisition user interface 10B of the client terminal 200.

  The human network information acquisition service 20A stores the activity history information of participants and the like and the human network information generated based on the activity history information in the activity history / human network information database 20B. The human network information acquisition service 20A acquires the activity history of the participant from the sensor system 400, and generates human network information that describes the human network having the participant as a node and the activity amount as a link, as will be described later. . The sensor system 400 is realized by using weak radio waves, for example, by an oscillator (for example, an RFID tag) 401 carried for each participant and a sensor 402 installed for each area. The activity history information is managed by being divided into personal activity information and joint activity information as will be described later.

  The information integration service 40A generates product development activity analysis information from the architecture information and human network information and stores it in the analysis information database 30B. The product development activity analysis information is information for displaying the nodes and links of the product architecture and the network in which the activity amount is assigned to those components.

  The information visualization service 40A visualizes product development activity analysis information. For example, as shown in FIG. 21, FIG. 22, and FIG. 23, the visualization mode includes a node of a product part, a link of its relevance, and a display of an activity amount. An analyst requests a visualization service from the information visualization service 40A of the server computer 100 using the information visualization user interface 40B of the client terminal 201, and as a result, product development is performed using the information visualization user interface 40B of the client terminal 201. Activity analysis information is displayed.

[Architecture Information]

  Next, architecture information will be described.

  FIG. 3 shows an acquisition procedure of the architecture information, and details thereof are as follows. In this example, for example, the architecture information acquisition service 10A of the server computer 100 notifies the participant to input the participation information, and the participant uses the architecture information acquisition user interface 10B of the client terminal 200 to notify the participation information. Is returned to the architecture information acquisition service 10A.

[Step S10]: The name of the person is acquired. For example, the person a.
[Step S11]: An inquiry is made about the name of the part with which the person is directly involved. For example, part A.
[Step S12]: Queries N parts that are highly related to the function of the part. For example, component B, component B, and component C are acquired. N may not be fixed.

  The architecture information acquisition service 10A generates architecture information based on the participation information acquired from each participant. FIG. 4 shows partial architecture information generated based on the participation information acquired from the person a. The example of FIG. 4 is an example in the case where the person “a” handles the part A and replies that there is a strong relationship with the part B, the part C, and the part D. A human identification number (ID: a) is stored in the diagonal component. When a plurality of people handle the same part, a plurality of identification numbers are stored.

  The architecture information acquisition service 10A generates partial integrated architecture information by synthesizing partial architecture information (participation information) generated for each participant.

  FIG. 5 shows a mode of integrating the architecture information (involvement information) of person a and the architecture information (involvement information) of person b. The number “1” indicating the identification information of the involved person and the relationship “1” is transferred to the cells in the table of the architecture information in which the component names are respectively rows and columns, and the number indicating the relationship is added.

  Similarly, the architecture information acquisition service 10A generates an overall architecture information table as shown in FIG. 6 from the architecture information of all participants. In FIG. 6, when the ID information of the participant is arranged in the diagonal component of the matrix and there are a plurality of ID information in the same diagonal component, the plurality of participants corresponding to the ID handle the same part. Is considered. “0” in the diagonal component means that there is no corresponding person in charge, but normally there is at least one person involved. The numbers in the cells other than the diagonal component indicate the magnitude of the relationship.

  Product architecture information expression as shown in FIG. 7 is possible from the architecture information table of FIG. In the example of FIG. 7, product parts are nodes, and parts related by cells having a relevance of 1 or more are connected by links. Part node A is connected to part nodes B, C, and D, B is further connected to E and F, and F is further connected to G. C is further connected to H. It is also possible to connect links when the degree of association exceeds a predetermined threshold.

[Human network information]

  Next, human network information will be described. A human network typically has a person as a node and a relationship between people as a link, and in this example, the amount of joint activity between people is represented by a link as a relationship. In addition, the amount of personal activity is also important for contrasting joint activities, and is represented by an autoregressive arc. A human network can be represented, for example, as shown in FIG. In addition, the number of FIG. 14 is the percentage of the said active mass shown in all the active mass.

  FIG. 8 illustrates the operation of acquiring joint activity information. At time T0, only person a is in the area, then person a is added to person a at time T1, and further at time T2. Only person a is in the area. In the lower area of FIG. 8, the transition of the table showing the total time of activity is shown. The table indicating the total time indicates the total time of the joint activity of the two parties corresponding to the cell at the intersection position of the person performing the joint activity. Until time T1, people a and b are not in the same area, so the time is zero. The time between others is also 0 (initial value). From time T1 to time T2, it is considered that people a and b are in the same area and are performing joint activities. Therefore, the time of joint activities of persons a and b is T2-T1, and this is the cell at the intersection (complementary). Two cells).

  FIG. 9 shows a procedure for calculating the joint activity time, which is as follows.

[Step S20]: A set of transmitters received by a sensor installed in a predetermined area at time T1 is obtained, and set as Set1.
[Step S21]: It is determined whether there are a plurality of received transmitters. That is, it is determined whether the number of elements in the set Set1 is greater than one. If not, the process is terminated and the same process is repeated. If larger, the process proceeds to step S22.
[Step S22]: A set of a plurality of transmitters received by sensors installed in the same area at time T2 is set as Set2.
[Step S23]: T2-T1 is substituted for time total_time. Proceed to step S24.
[Step S24]: It is determined whether or not the set Set1 and the set Set2 are equal. If they are equal, the process proceeds to step S22 and the process is repeated. If they are not equal, the process proceeds to step S25.
[Step S25]: It is determined whether or not the time total_time is larger than the threshold threshold_time. If it is larger, the process proceeds to Step S26, and if not, the process skips Step S26 and proceeds to Step S27.
[Step S26]: Contact time information (T1, T2, T2-T1) is recorded between the IDs of the elements of the set Set1.
[Step S27]: It is determined whether the number of elements in the set Set1 is larger than 1. If larger, the process proceeds to step S28, and if not, the process ends.
[Step S28]: T2 is substituted into T1, set Set2 is substituted into set Set1, the process proceeds to step S22, and the process is repeated.

  As described above, the joint activity time (contact time) is accumulated.

  FIG. 10 illustrates an operation of acquiring personal activity information. In FIG. 10, a person a is alone in a predetermined area at time T1 and performs personal activities. After this, person b is added at time T2, indicating that the personal activity is over. As a result, the transition of the total time table is shown in the lower area of FIG. The time of personal activity is posted in the cell (diagonal cell) at the intersection of the same person. In this example, time T2-T1 is recorded in the cell at the intersection of person a and person a.

  FIG. 11 shows a procedure for calculating the time of personal activity, which is as follows.

[Step S30]: A set of transmitters received by sensors installed in a predetermined area at time T1 is obtained, and set as Set1. The predetermined area is, for example, a desk or the like, but may be any place where personal activities are assumed.
[Step S31]: It is determined whether there is one received transmitter. That is, it is determined whether or not the number of elements of the set Set1 is 1. If it is not 1, the process ends and the same process is repeated. If 1, the process proceeds to step S32.
[Step S32]: A set of transmitters received by sensors installed in the same area at time T2 is set as Set2.
[Step S33]: It is determined whether the set Set1 and the set Set2 are equal. If they are equal, the process proceeds to step S32 to repeat the process. If they are not equal, the process proceeds to step S34.
[Step S34]: The activity time information (T1, T2, T2-T1) is recorded in the ID of the element of the set Set1, and the process ends.

  Personal activity information is acquired as described above.

  By holding the history of personal activity information and joint activity information as described above for all participants, a network information table as shown in FIG. 12 can be acquired. The accumulated time of individual activity or joint activity is shown in the cell at the intersection of the table. This accumulation is performed, for example, every predetermined period, and information for each period is stored. In the example of FIG. 12, for example, the personal activity time of the person a is 27, and the joint activity time of the person a and the person b is 43. Although this number is based on time, it may be expressed as a labor cost obtained by accumulating personnel costs per unit time.

  FIG. 13 shows the activity time as a percentage.

  FIG. 14 shows an example of network expression based on the network information table of FIG. In FIG. 14, each node is a person (participant), the link between the different nodes indicates the joint activity ratio (percentage), and the arc that autoreturns to the node indicates the personal activity ratio. It can be seen that the people of the node with the link are communicating with each other, and the degree can be known by the amount of activity or the ratio. In addition, it can be seen that communication is not performed between nodes that are not linked.

[Integration of architecture information and network information]

  The integration of architecture information and network information can be matched from the information of people directly involved in each component. However, since the number of nodes may differ between the two, it is necessary to correct this first.

  FIG. 15 shows processing for making the number of nodes in the architecture information and the number of nodes in the network information the same, and the processing is as follows.

[Step S40]: It is determined whether any one of the diagonal components of the architecture information includes one or more IDs (participant identification information).
[Step S41]: The network information is summed up for the ID set of the diagonal component, and the combination of the IDs is stored in the variable Group_ID.
[Step S42]: The diagonal component of the architecture information subjected to the summing process is replaced with Group_ID.

  FIG. 16 shows an example in which a plurality of IDs are assigned to diagonal components. Specifically, it is recorded in one diagonal component that the participants a and b are directly involved in the part A.

  Therefore, the corresponding network information is collectively handled as a group by the processing of FIG. 15 as shown in FIG.

  As a result, the network information is represented by a network (node and link) as shown in FIG.

  As described above, node consistency can be achieved with the architecture information and the network information.

  Next, processing for generating visualization information will be described. FIG. 19 shows processing for generating visualization information by integrating product architecture information and human network information, and this processing is as follows.

[Step S50]: The person-in-charge ID of each part is extracted from the diagonal component of the architecture information. It should be noted that only the component in which the person-in-charge ID is included in the diagonal component in the architecture information is targeted.
[Step S51]: The data corresponding to the combination (two) of each person ID is searched from the network information and replaced with the value of the architecture information.
[Step S52]: At this time, if the initial value of the architecture information is 0, a display flag (R) is added to the component simultaneously with the above-described value.
[Step S53]: However, if there is no corresponding data in the network information, a display flag (B) is assigned to the component.

  FIG. 20 shows an example of visualization information integrated by the processing of FIG. In the example of FIG. 20, the parts B and C are associated on the product architecture, but there is no joint activity (display flag B). This suggests that there is no relevance between parts as much as the person in charge wants to recognize. Further, although there is no association between the parts D and F on the product architecture, it indicates that there is a joint activity (1%) (display flag R). This suggests that there is a lot of relevance between the parts and you have to be aware that more adjustments are needed.

  The information visualization service 40A displays an analysis result to an analyst using a table of visualization information. 21, 22 and 23 show display examples.

  The example of FIG. 21 shows a user interface screen 40C, which has an area 40D for displaying product network information and a slider operation area 40E. In the example of FIG. 21, the network type is expressed by the line color and line type. A red line (corresponding to a red display flag) indicates a place where there is no recognition of the dependency relationship between the components but the adjustment is made between the participants. The blue line shows the location where there was no dependency between the participants but there was a dependency between the parts. Of course, you may change and display a line type, such as a chain line and a dashed-dotted line. Further, the size of the display of the node is changed depending on the magnitude of the numerical value based on the comparison with the numerical values in the other nodes. The nodes are compared with each other, and when the numerical value between the nodes is large, the color of the node is changed. From the comparison with the numerical values between other nodes, the thickness of the link display is changed depending on the numerical value.

  In addition, the network information from the start time to the period specified by the slider is displayed as the total result. The structure of the network may change by operating the slider.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 22, the display position of the node may be displayed by changing the link length corresponding to the link value.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 23, the network type may be expressed by the color of the line, and the numerical value may be expressed by the thickness of the line.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, in the above-described example, the product architecture information is acquired from all participants, but may be acquired from some participants. Further, product architecture information may be acquired from existing design information. In this case, it is necessary to give a relationship between the participant and the part in advance. In the above example, human network information is acquired by detecting personal approach and joint activity using sensor technology to determine personal activities and joint activities. The amount of joint activity may be acquired using. The amount of personal activity may be ascertained using the operation history of each person's operation terminal as an index. You may use only the amount of joint activity without using the amount of individual activity.

It is a block diagram which shows the outline of the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the example of mounting composition of the above-mentioned example. It is a flowchart explaining the procedure which acquires the architecture information of the said Example. It is a figure explaining the example of the architecture information acquired about the person in charge a. It is a figure explaining the example which synthesize | combines the architecture information acquired about the person in charge a and the person in charge b. It is a figure explaining the example of the architecture information finally acquired. It is a figure explaining the example of a display of the network of the product architecture displayed based on architecture information. It is a figure explaining the example which acquires the human network information of the said Example in relation to a joint activity. It is a flowchart explaining the example of the procedure which acquires the network information of the said joint activity. It is a figure explaining the example which acquires the human network information of the said Example in relation to a personal activity. It is a flowchart explaining the example of the procedure which acquires the network information of the above-mentioned personal activity. It is a figure explaining the example of the table of the final network information of the above-mentioned Example. It is a figure explaining other examples of the table of final network information of the above-mentioned example. It is a figure explaining the example of a display of the human network displayed based on the table of the above-mentioned network information. It is a flowchart explaining the procedure which eliminates the difference of a node. It is a figure explaining the above-mentioned procedure. It is a figure explaining the above-mentioned procedure. It is a figure explaining the above-mentioned procedure. It is a flowchart explaining the example which produces | generates visualization information in the said Example. It is a figure explaining the example of the table of the visualization information of the said Example. It is a figure explaining the example of the analysis result display based on the table of the visualization information of the above-mentioned Example. It is a figure explaining the other example of the analysis result display based on the table of the visualization information of the said Example. It is a figure explaining the further another example of the analysis result display based on the table of the visualization information of the said Example.

Explanation of symbols

1 Product development activity analysis system 10 Product architecture information acquisition unit 10A Architecture information acquisition service 10B Architecture information acquisition user interface 10C Architecture information database 20 Human network information acquisition unit 20A Human network information acquisition service 20B Human network information database 30 Information integration Unit 30A information integration service 30B analysis information database 40 information visualization unit 40A information visualization service 40B information visualization user interface 40C user interface screen 40D analysis result display region 40E slider operation region 100 server computer 101 server program 200 client terminal 201 client terminal 202 agent program 300 Communication network 400 Sensitivity Temu 401 transmitter 402 sensor

Claims (13)

Product architecture information acquisition means for acquiring, based on information acquired from each person involved in product development, structure information of a product architecture having a part of the product as a node and a relationship between the parts as a link;
Human network information acquisition means for acquiring information on a human network that links the amount of activity between the participants with the participant as a node based on the activity history of the participant;
The product architecture and the human network are mapped based on the directly involved part information indicating which part the participant is directly involved in, and a corresponding activity amount is assigned to at least one of the nodes and links of the product architecture. Integration means,
The product development activity analyzing apparatus comprising: information visualization means for displaying the product architecture to which the activity amount is assigned. Above product architecture information obtaining means, from each of the participants in the development of the above product, the relevant parts information relevant to the direct involvement component information and the component corresponding participant is involved directly to identify the major components 2. The product development activity analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the product development activity analysis apparatus acquires product architecture structure information in which the part of the product is a node and the relationship between the parts is a link based on the directly involved part information and related part information. . 3. When a plurality of participants are directly involved in one part, the plurality of participants are grouped, and the amount of activity of the group is the amount of activity at the corresponding node and link of the human network. Product development activity analysis equipment. The information visualizing means displays the activity amount of the individual activity in relation to the node of the product architecture, and relates the activity of the participant to the link of the product architecture. 4. The product development activity analysis apparatus according to claim 1, 2 or 3 displayed. The said information visualization means displays that the said active mass exists, when there exists an active mass between the participant corresponding to each of two nodes which are not connected by the link of the said product architecture. 4. The product development activity analyzer according to any one of 4 above. The said information visualization means displays that there is no said activity amount, when there is no activity amount between the participants corresponding to each of two nodes connected by the link. Product activity analysis device. 7. The product development activity analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information visualization means displays an activity amount of the node by an autoregressive arc. The product development activity analysis apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the information visualization means changes at least one display mode of the link and arc according to an activity amount. 9. The product development activity analyzing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the display mode is a thickness of a link or arc line. The product development activity analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the activity amount of the participant is calculated based on time information existing in a predetermined range determined based on position information by an RFID tag. For each participant in product development, a participant information acquisition means for acquiring information for identifying a part that the participant is directly involved in and information for identifying a part that is highly related to the part;
The arrangement of the nodes of each part of the product is determined from the information that directly identifies the part that the participant is directly involved in, and the information between the parts nodes is determined from the information that identifies the part that is highly related to the part. Structure determining means for determining the arrangement of links;
Activity history holding means for storing the activity history of the participant,
Activity amount determination means for determining the amount of activity performed by the participant at each of the node of the part and the link between the parts based on the activity history of the participant stored in the activity history holding means;
A product development activity analyzing apparatus comprising: a node for the component, a link between the components, and a display means for displaying the activity amount. Product architecture information holding means for holding product architecture information of a predetermined product architecture;
Human network information acquisition means for acquiring information on a human network based on the activity history of the participants involved in the development of the product and using the participant as a node and the activity amount between the participants as a link;
An integration that maps the product architecture and the human network based on the directly involved part information indicating which part the participant is directly involved in, and assigns a corresponding activity amount to at least one of the nodes and links of the product architecture. Means,
The product development activity analyzing apparatus comprising: information visualization means for displaying the product architecture to which the activity amount is assigned. Computer
For each person involved in product development, obtain directly involved part information that identifies the part that the participant is directly involved in, and related part information that identifies a part that is highly related to the part, and participate directly in this information. based on the component information and associated parts information, product architecture information acquiring means to acquire the structure information of a product architecture that links the association between the components as nodes parts of the above product,
Human network information obtaining means to obtain information human networks to link the amount of activity among the participants as nodes the participants based on SL participants History,
On SL product architecture and the human network mapped based on the direct involvement parts information, the product architecture in at least one of nodes and links, integrated hand stages allocating a corresponding amount of activity,
Program for operating in an information visualizing means for displaying the product architecture on SL activity amount is allocated.