Patent number: 7383192
Abstract: A value chain flow diagram expresses the flow of money, things, claims, persons, information, services, values or the like related to the lifecycle of products (planning, designing, manufacturing, distribution, sale, use, disposal) which are generated among enterprises, departments of an enterprise, clients, users, stockholders, authentication organizations or regional inhabitants. In the product value chain flow diagram, individual components such as the enterprises, the departments of the enterprise, the clients, the users, the stockholders, the authentication organization or the regional inhabitants are expressed by block shapes such as boxes and circles and the flow of the money, the things, the claims, the persons, the information, the services, the values or the like is expressed by specific symbols or linear or curved arrows labeled with icons. Further, the components which are expressed by blocks are connected with each other.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 3, 2008
Assignees:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Inventors:
Shinya Sekimoto, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Kyoko Suzuki, Kosuke Ishii
Publication number: 20030055661
Abstract: A value chain flow diagram expresses the flow of money, things, claims, persons, information, services, values or the like related to the lifecycle of products (planning, designing, manufacturing, distribution, sale, use, disposal) which are generated among enterprises, departments of an enterprise, clients, users, stockholders, authentication organizations or regional inhabitants. In the product value chain flow diagram, individual components such as the enterprises, the departments of the enterprise, the clients, the users, the stockholders, the authentication organization or the regional inhabitants are expressed by block shapes such as boxes and circles and the flow of the money, the things, the claims, the persons, the information, the services, the values or the like is expressed by specific symbols or linear or curved arrows labeled with icons. Further, the components which are expressed by blocks are connected with each other.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 17, 2001
Publication date:
March 20, 2003
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Inventors:
Shinya Sekimoto, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Kyoko Suzuki, Kosuke Ishii