JPH09106405A - Layout designing support system for equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a layout designing support system for an equipment which neatly aligns plural pattern graphics respectively showing one equipment without deteriorating a processing speed. SOLUTION: The system which supports layout design for an equipment by arranging the plural pattern graphics respectively showing one equipment is provided with a pattern graphic arranging part 21 for arranging the pattern drawings at specified positions on a picture to display, a frame display processing part 22 displaying a rectangular frame on the picture, a truing part 23 parallelly moving the pattern drawings surrounded by the frame in a specified direction to true up them along one side of the frame, and on aligning part 24 parallelly moving the pattern drawings surrounded by the frame in a specified direction to align them so as not to make adjacent patterns overlap each other and so as to be connected to each other.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a display stand, a desk,
The present invention relates to a layout design support system for supporting layout design of equipment such as mechanical devices.

[0002] In stores such as supermarkets and chain stores, various display stands (also called furniture) called gondolas or flat stands are installed, and a large number of products are displayed on each display stand. The layout of these display stands needs to be carefully considered in order to obtain the maximum sales possible in a store with a limited space. It is also necessary to re-examine the layout based on the sales performance of each display stand.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in many stores such as supermarkets, a POS system (point-of-sale information management system) consisting of a plurality of POS terminals and a host computer has been introduced. The information (POS information) is used for product management such as product sales, inventory, or ordering.

In a conventional POS system, for example, data of attribute items such as sales amount, sales floor area, gross profit margin, number of individual items, number of personnel, expenses, unit price of each of a plurality of stores that are developed as chain stores It is being displayed on the screen as a portfolio graph based on values. Further, the median and mu obtained for each attribute item are also displayed on the displayed coordinate plane of the portfolio graph (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-10539).
No. 1).

In this conventional POS system, which store has a good result or bad result, what kind of situation each store is in the overall situation, and how is the overall result situation? There is an advantage that can be easily known.

Further, in the conventional POS system, when designing the layout of the display stand in the store, a plan view of the store is displayed on the screen. On the screen, the pattern figure showing the display stand is repeatedly arranged or moved at the position designated by the cursor.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional POS system, since the layout destination of the pattern figure is designated by the cursor in the layout design, the position cannot be precisely designated. Therefore,
For example, it is often the case that a plurality of pattern figures that should have been arranged side by side in one row are not neatly arranged in one row and become zigzag.

In order to deal with this problem, it is conceivable to display a large number of scale lines in the vertical and horizontal directions of the screen and arrange the pattern figure according to the scale lines. However, according to this method, a large number of scale lines displayed on the screen are unpleasant, and it takes time to display the scale lines, which reduces the processing speed.

The present invention provides a layout design support system for equipment, which can neatly arrange a plurality of pattern figures each showing one equipment without causing a screen obstruction and reducing the processing speed. With the goal.

[0010]

A system according to the invention of claim 1 is a layout design support system for supporting a layout design of equipment by arranging a plurality of pattern figures each showing one equipment on a screen. The pattern figure arranging means for arranging and displaying the pattern figure at a designated position on the screen, a frame display processing means for displaying a rectangular frame on the screen, and the frame Aligning means for displacing the enclosed pattern figure in a specified direction and aligning it along one side of the frame, and parallelizing the pattern figure surrounded by the frame in a specified direction, Aligning means for aligning adjacent pattern figures so that they do not overlap each other and are continuous with each other.

In the system according to the second aspect of the present invention, with respect to the pattern figures arranged on the screen, the quantity display processing means for displaying the quantity of equipment corresponding to each pattern figure as the color or pattern of each pattern figure. Have.

The rectangular frame specifies a pattern figure to be processed and a reference line for aligning or aligning the pattern figure. The equipment includes, for example, various fixtures in stores, display shelves, machine tools in factories, desks and office automation equipment in offices, and the like. Volume includes, for example, sales amount, sales quantity, production amount,
It includes the number of processed items and the number of processed items. As the pattern figure, a figure in which the appearance of the equipment is simplified is usually used.

[0013]

1 is a block diagram showing a store layout design support system 1 according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a furniture master 31, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a shelf master 32. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the store zoning master 33, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the configuration of the sales master 36.

The store layout design support system 1 comprises a processing device 11, a magnetic disk device 12, a display device 13, a printer 14, an input device 15 including a keyboard 15a and a mouse 15b, and the like, and is connected via a communication line or a network. Connected to the host 3 and a POS terminal (not shown). The store layout design support system 1 is one functional part of the POS system, and is realized by, for example, a workstation or a personal computer, and is configured as a client server system centering on a database server as a whole.

The magnetic disk device 12 includes a furniture master 31, a shelf master 32, a store zoning master 33,
Various files such as a store layout master 34, a single item master 35, and a sales master 36 are stored. These files are the information input by operating the store layout design support system 1 and the host 3
Information sent from, PO not shown installed in each store
It is created based on the POS information collected and edited from the S terminal, the information generated by the processing device 11, and other information.

In FIG. 2, the furniture master 31 is a file in which attribute information such as type and size of the furniture (display stand) FX that may be used in the store is recorded together with the furniture code CF. That is, the furniture master 31 determines the furniture code CF, the furniture name TF, the height,
Data such as dimensions SF such as width and depth and the number of stages LF are stored. The furniture code CF is a code assigned to each name or type of furniture as a hard member. In the example shown in FIG. 2, five-tiered “3 shaku gondola”, “5 shaku gondola” and the like are recorded as furniture code “1” and “2”.

In FIG. 3, the shelf master 32 is a file in which the display state (shelf pattern) of a single item (commodity) is recorded together with the shelf code CR for the display shelves arranged in each store. That is, the shelf master 32 has the shelf code C.
Data such as R, furniture code CF, individual product code CG arranged in each stage and each row, number of faces FC, number of products NL, maximum number of displays NM, optimal number of displays NS, etc. are stored. The display shelf refers to a state in which individual items for sale are arranged in the furniture FX. The number of faces FC is the number of arrays when the same single product is arranged side by side in the lateral direction, and the product number N
L is the number of arrangements when the same single product is piled up and arranged. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the furniture code CF is "000" in the display shelf whose shelf code CR is "0001".
The furniture with the number "2" is used, and in the first row and the first column, the single item with the single item code CG "270901000007" is the face number "1", the stacking number "0", and the maximum display number "2".
It is displayed with 0 "and the optimum number of displays" 10 ".

In FIG. 4, store zoning master 3
Reference numeral 3 is a file in which the arrangement state of the display shelves actually arranged is recorded for each store. That is, the store zoning master 33 has a store code CS and a location code C.
Data such as L, furniture code CF, coordinates CO, and angle AG are stored. The store code CS is a code assigned to each store. The location code CL is a code assigned to each display shelf arranged in the store and corresponding to the place where each display shelf is arranged. Each display shelf actually arranged in the store is associated with the pattern graphic FEB of the display shelf displayed on the screen by the location code CL. The location code CL is, for example, first to sixth
Each display shelf is specified by using a code of six layers of layers, and using an arbitrary number of codes among them.

For example, the code of the first layer designates the floor of the building, the code of the second layer designates a large group of display shelves on that floor, and the code of the third layer designates a middle group within the large group. The code of the fourth layer designates a small group in the medium group, and the code of the fifth layer designates a specific display shelf in the small group. Each code is represented by a numerical value within 7 digits, for example. In the example shown in FIG. 4, with respect to the store having the store code CS of “2”, the furniture code CF is placed at the location of the location code CL of “112376”.
"0002" and the shelf code CR of "0001" are arranged. The coordinate CO indicates the position of the display shelf, and the angle AG indicates the rotation angle in the horizontal plane.

In FIG. 5, the sales master 36 is a file in which the sales state of a single item is recorded. The sales master 36 stores data such as a store code CS, a single item code CG, a sales quantity NG, a sales amount NP, a period TM, and a location code CL.

Returning to FIG. 1, the store layout master 3
Reference numeral 4 is a file in which the arrangement state of equipment other than display shelves, such as pillars, doorways, and counters, is recorded for each store. The single product master 35 is a file in which, for each single product, a single product code CG, a single product name MG, a single product width, height, depth size SZ, a fixed price PR, and the like.

The processing device 11 includes a pattern figure arranging section 2
1, a frame display processing unit 22, an alignment unit 23, an alignment unit 24, a volume display processing unit 25, and the like are provided. Each of these processing units is realized by executing a processing program stored in the memory of the processing device 11. Such a processing program is supplied via a recording medium such as a flexible disk, a magnetic tape, a CD-ROM, or a communication line.

The pattern figure arranging section 21 carries out processing for arranging and displaying the pattern figures FEA and FEB at designated positions on the screen HG. The frame display processing unit 22 performs a process for displaying the rectangular frame FM on the screen HG by designating the upper left vertex and the lower right vertex with the mouse 15b. The aligning unit 23 translates the pattern figure FEB surrounded by the frame FM in the specified direction to move the frame F
The process of aligning along one side of M is performed. Alignment part 2
In step 4, the pattern figure FEB surrounded by the frame FM is translated in the designated direction so that adjacent pattern figures are aligned so that they do not overlap each other and are continuous with each other. For the pattern figure FEB arranged on the screen HG, the volume display processing unit 25 displays the sales amount or the sales quantity of each display shelf corresponding to each pattern figure FEB as the color, pattern, or three-dimensional figure of each pattern figure FEB. Performs the process of displaying as the height of. In addition, the processing device 11 performs various data processing such as writing to each file, reading, arithmetic processing, display processing on the screen HG, and data exchange with the host 3 and the like.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a layout design screen HG1 displayed on the display device 12, FIGS. 7 to 10 are diagrams showing a procedure of a layout design process of the furniture FX on the layout design screen HG1, and FIG. 12 is a layout design process. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of.

On the layout design screen HG1, a plan view FPL of the store is displayed, and above the store code CS,
Store name, floor code, floor name, floor size, etc. are arranged. In the initial state of the layout design screen HG1, the plan view FPL is blank, but by writing the outline LE, the pillar PL, the entrance DR, the counter CE, etc., which match the building, and arranging the furniture FX, A plan view FPL as shown in 6 is created. Next, a layout design process of the furniture FX will be described.

In the initial state of the plan view FPL, the screen H
Using the various buttons displayed above G1, pattern figures FEA1 to 8 such as the outline LE, the pillar PL, the doorway DR, and the counter CE are written. Next, when arranging the furniture FX, first, a furniture button (not shown) is displayed in a window on the screen HG1 by the furniture button (# 1
1). The furniture list is displayed based on the data read from the furniture master 31. After designating the fixture FX to be used from the fixture list, a rough position and angle AG are designated in the plan view FPL. If the angle AG is not specified, the default value of 90 degrees is set. As a result, as shown in the plan view FPL1 of FIG. 7, the pattern figures FEB1 to 5 of the five furniture FX are arranged at the designated positions (# 12, 13). Pattern figure F
E1 has an angle AG of 0 degrees, and the pattern figures FE2 to FE5
Has an angle AG of 90 degrees.

Next, with the range button on the screen HG1,
Create a frame FM surrounding the pattern figures FEB1 to 5 (#
14). To create the frame FM, as shown in the plan view FPL2 of FIG. 8, the upper left vertex PT1 is pointed to by the mouse 15b and dragged to the lower right vertex PT2. As a result, the five pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5 are designated as targets of the aligning process and the aligning process, and the reference line in each process is designated. That is, the pattern figure FEB1 in the frame FM
5 to 5 are specified as the processing target, and the designated side of each side of the frame FM is set as the processing reference line. Although illustration is omitted, the pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5 designated as targets are shown.
, A small square figure is additionally displayed at the vertices of each of the pattern figures FEB1 to 5, thereby highlighting that it is a processing target.

When a button for aligning the upper, lower, left and right sides of the screen HG1 is clicked, a window for designating one of the upper, lower, left and right directions is displayed. For example, "left" is designated there. As a result, the plan view FPL of FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5 are translated in the left direction and aligned along the left side FMS of the frame FM (# 15).

Further, when the alignment button on the screen HG1 is clicked, a window for designating one of the upper and lower directions is displayed. For example, "up" is designated there. As a result, as shown in the plan view FPL4 of FIG. 10, the pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5 are moved upward in parallel,
The adjacent pattern figures are aligned so that they do not overlap each other and are continuous with each other (# 16).

By the aligning process and the aligning process as described above, the pattern figures FEB1 to 5 are neatly aligned in a straight line at the position of the side FMS. Further, since the scale line and the like are not displayed, the screen is not obtrusive and the processing speed does not decrease.

To move the entire aligned pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5, specify the inside of the frame FM with the mouse 15b and drag it to the desired position (# 1).
7, 18). By repeating these operations and processes, the plan view FPL shown in FIG. 6 is created (# 1
9). When the end button of the screen HG1 is input, the created layout is stored in the store zoning master 33 or the store layout master 34. The coordinates CO on the screen are recorded as the final positions of the pattern figures FEB1 to FEB5. Also, the pattern figure FEB1
The location code CL is added to and recorded in 5 to 5.

Each of the furniture FX arranged on the layout design screen HG1 is associated with a single item to be displayed, and the data is stored in the shelf master 32. The display racks are the ones in which the fixtures FX are individually arranged, and the sales amount of each display rack in a certain period,
Sales quantity is totaled.

That is, the sales amount NP and the sales quantity NG recorded in the sales master 36 are the location code CL.
The results are totaled in units, and the totalized results are associated with the respective furniture FX, that is, the display shelves, by the location code CL. By inputting a count display button (not shown), the count result is displayed as a count result screen HG2.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the tabulation result screen HG2. In the tabulation result screen HG2 of FIG. 11, FIG.
The same pattern figure FEB as that of the plan view FPL shown in FIG. 4 is displayed, and the result of totaling the amount of sales for each display shelf is color-coded and displayed for each pattern figure FEB. In addition,
The display color and the amount range are associated with each other on another screen (not shown). In that case, the range of the amount of money can be freely increased or decreased. For example, it is possible to finely set the range of the amount of money at a specific sales amount level, which enables a precise analysis of the sales situation at the specific sales amount level.

Further, each pattern figure FEB can be three-dimensionally displayed as a rectangular parallelepiped having a height, and the total result of the sales quantity can be displayed by the height of the pattern figure FEB. By displaying the totalized result in this way, it is possible to easily perform sales analysis for each display shelf, comparative analysis with other display shelves, and the like. Therefore, it is possible to reexamine the layout of the display shelves based on the analysis result and improve the sales in the store.

In the above-mentioned layout design screen HG1, an example in which five pattern figures FEB are arranged and processed has been described, but four or less or six or more may be used. When displaying the frame FM, a straight line corresponding to each side may be set. Although the frame FM is shown by a broken line, it may be a chain line or a solid line, and the frame FM may be displayed substantially by showing four vertices. The inside of the frame FM may be filled with a pattern or a color. Whether or not the pattern figure FEB overlapping the frame FM is to be processed may be selected, or may be selected according to conditions. Various instructions may be given by inputting from the keyboard 15a. In addition, the configuration of each part or the whole of the store layout design support system 1, the processing content, the processing order, and the like can be appropriately changed in accordance with the gist of the present invention. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be applied to the layout design of various fixtures and display shelves in stores, the layout design of facilities other than stores, such as machine tools in factories, desks and OA equipment in offices, and the like.

[0037]

According to the first and second aspects of the present invention,
It is possible to neatly align a plurality of pattern figures each showing one piece of equipment without lowering the processing speed. This makes it possible to easily and quickly design the layout of the equipment.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to easily carry out the analysis of the production amount of each equipment, the comparative analysis with other equipment, and the like.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a store layout design support system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a furniture master.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a shelf master.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a store zoning master.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a sales master.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a layout design screen displayed on a display device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state of layout design processing on a layout design screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state of layout design processing on a layout design screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a state of layout design processing on a layout design screen.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state of layout design processing on a layout design screen.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a counting result screen.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a procedure of layout design processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Store Layout Design Support System 21 Pattern Graphic Arrangement Unit (Pattern Graphic Arrangement Means) 22 Frame Display Processing Unit (Frame Display Processing Means) 23 Alignment Unit (Alignment Means) 24 Alignment Unit (Alignment Means) 25 Volume Display Processing Unit (Volume Display) Processing means) FEB pattern figure FX furniture (equipment) FM frame

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A layout design support system for supporting a layout design of equipment by arranging on the screen a plurality of pattern figures each representing one piece of equipment, wherein the pattern figures are designated on the screen. Pattern figure arranging means for arranging and displaying in a different position, frame display processing means for displaying a rectangular frame on the screen, and parallel movement of the pattern figure surrounded by the frame in a designated direction. And aligning means for aligning along one side of the frame and the pattern figure surrounded by the frame in parallel in a specified direction so that adjacent pattern figures do not overlap each other and are continuous with each other. A layout design support system for equipment, which comprises: 2. The equipment according to claim 1, further comprising: output display processing means for displaying the output of the equipment corresponding to each pattern graphic on the screen as the color or pattern of each pattern graphic. Layout design support system.