Abstract: A delivery date answering apparatus includes: an order quota calculation and disclosure unit for calculating surplus inventory of a product in a demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are forecasted, using the actual inventory and a sales plan of the demand forecast channel, and transfer the surplus inventory to an orderable quota for a non-demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are not forecasted, and set a predetermined disclosed quota for the orderable quota; and an actual order acquisition and delivery date answering unit for determining whether the quantity of an actual order acquired in the non-demand forecast channel is within a range of the disclosed quota. When the order is within the range, answer a date when the actual order is deliverable. When the order is not within the range, answer the order is undeliverable.

Abstract: In a retrieval method executed by a retrieval device in which a storage unit holds enterprise information, classification code information, and item keyword information corresponding to an enterprise and an item of a particle supplied by the enterprise, at least one of a keyword indicative of a business of a first enterprise or a classification code of an item registered by the first enterprise is input. At least one item keyword is extracted corresponding to at least one of an enterprise similar to the first enterprise or an item similar to the item registered by the first enterprise, based on at least one of the keyword indicating the business of the first enterprise or the classification code of the item registered by the first enterprise, by referring to the enterprise information, the classification code information, and the item keyword information. Then, the extracted at least one item keyword is output.

Abstract: A delivery date answering apparatus includes: an order quota calculation and disclosure unit for calculating surplus inventory of a product in a demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are forecasted, using the actual inventory and a sales plan of the demand forecast channel, and transfer the surplus inventory to an orderable quota for a non-demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are not forecasted, and set a predetermined disclosed quota for the orderable quota; and an actual order acquisition and delivery date answering unit for determining whether the quantity of an actual order acquired in the non-demand forecast channel is within a range of the disclosed quota. When the order is within the range, answer a date when the actual order is deliverable. When the order is not within the range, answer the order is undeliverable.

Abstract: A parts procurement support device including: a similar product selection unit that selects an existing product similar to a new product on the basis of shared information regarding design of the new product and feature information indicating a feature of the existing product; and a supplier selection unit that selects a supplier of a part constituting the new product on the basis of parts information regarding a part of the selected existing product.

Abstract: A demand prediction in each planning unit is calculated based on a planning unit of a demand to be prepared by each company constituting a supply chain, and an appropriate supply plan in which each company can adopt necessary and sufficient demand prediction data is output.

Abstract: A precursor powder for sintered ore, which offers excellent sintered ore production efficiency, can be adjusted independently of the quality of iron ore, by setting a mixing ratio [(C/F)×100] of a mass (C) of particles having a particle size of 3 mm or more in coke breeze to a mass (F) of particles having a particle size of 3 mm or more in an iron ore raw material in the range of 2% to 3%.

Abstract: A production plan enabling suppression of occurrence of excess stock is made. A shipping request representing the requested amount of shipping for each shipping request week is received. Among the shipping weeks of the shipping requests, the furthest future shipping request week is handled as the furthest future shipping week, and the amounts of shipping of shipping weeks near the present time are determined sequentially from the amount of shipping of the furthest future shipping week.

Abstract: A production plan enabling suppression of occurrence of excess stock is made. A shipping request representing the requested amount of shipping for each shipping request week is received. Among the shipping weeks of the shipping requests, the furthest future shipping request week is handled as the furthest future shipping week, and the amounts of shipping of shipping weeks near the present time are determined sequentially from the amount of shipping of the furthest future shipping week. For the shipping requests after the shipping week n for which the amount of shipping is to be set, the order setting time which is the time of period till the products are delivered to the shipping destination is determined. The allocation order, 1, 2, . . . is determined for each of the shipping requests of the unset shipping so that the longer the order setting time is, the higher the order of allocating shipping request is.

Abstract: An eccentric rotor having a high density member includes a rotor base having an air-core armature coil installation surface, a bearing holder provided at a center thereof, and an air-core armature coil position determination guide formed of a high density member including metal, having a specific gravity of 6 or more and arranged to be eccentric outside of the bearing holder, an air-core armature coil arranged at the air-core armature coil position determination guide, a printed wired commutator member installed to insulate a conductive portion having electric potential from the high density member, and an end connection pattern, in which ends of the air-core armature coil are connected, installed at the printed wired commutator member inside an outer circumference of rotation at a position not overlapping the air-core armature coil.

Abstract: An eccentric rotor having a high density member includes a rotor base having an air-core armature coil installation surface, a bearing holder provided at a center thereof, and an air-core armature coil position determination guide formed of a high density member including metal, having a specific gravity of 6 or more and arranged to be eccentric outside of the bearing holder, an air-core armature coil arranged at the air-core armature coil position determination guide, a printed wired commutator member installed to insulate a conductive portion having electric potential from the high density member, and an end connection pattern, in which ends of the air-core armature coil are connected, installed at the printed wired commutator member inside an outer circumference of rotation at a position not overlapping the air-core armature coil.

Abstract: A method for producing a molten iron in a blast furnace comprises the steps of: preparing an optical fiber covered with a metallic tube; measuring a temperature of the molten iron flow discharged from a tap hole of the blast furnace by means of making use of a metallic tube covered by the optical fiber to obtain an information of the temperature of the molten iron; and controlling a heat conditions of the blast furnace, based on the obtained information of the temperature of the molten iron. Controlling a heat conditions is achieved by using a heat conditions estimation model, and by inferring a level and a transition of the heat conditions in the furnace.