Abstract: Provided is a service proposal support system including an arithmetic device and a storage device. The arithmetic device is configured to calculate, for each of the solutions that are proposable by the proposer, a matching degree between system elements required for each of the solutions and the current system elements of the customer, output, based on the matching degree, one or more candidates for the solution to be proposed to the customer, and output, for at least any one of the one or more candidates for the solution, when a lacking system element exists in the current system elements of the customer compared to system elements required for the at least any one of the one or more candidates for the solution, information indicating the lacking system element.

Abstract: It is provided a recommendation system for selecting a product to be proposed to a client, the recommendation system comprising: an arithmetic device configured to execute predetermined processing; and a storage device accessible to the arithmetic device; having a selection module configured to estimate a product to be recommended to a client, the selection module being configured to: calculate a change ratio at which, out of pieces of collected field information, a specific piece of field information changes; extract a business organization high in the change ratio of the specific piece of field information as a target client; and estimate, from similarity in the change of the field information of the client, a product to be recommended to the target client.

Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of appropriately presenting an answer in accordance with an attribute of a user such as an operating environment. An information search/presentation device includes: an operation information acquisition unit configured to acquire a question transmitted from a terminal; a storage unit configured to store an answer candidate to the question and user attribute information on a user of the terminal to which the answer candidate is expected to be transmitted; an answer extraction unit configured to calculate a similarity for each answer candidate associated in the storage unit with the question acquired by the operation information acquisition unit, and extract an answer from the answer candidate by using the similarity; and an output unit configured to output the extracted answer to the terminal.

Abstract: To provide a technology for assisting selection of a supplier that can guarantee appropriate quality with ease, provided is an engineering level evaluation apparatus, including: a storage unit which stores: device information in which information on a part and an apparatus relating to manufacturing of the part are associated with each other; and apparatus owning information in which information identifying a supply entity of the part and the apparatus used by the supply entity are associated with each other; a part information reception section which receives an input of the information on the part; an engineering level calculation section which identifies a degree to which the apparatus relating to the manufacturing of the part received by the part information reception section is usable, and uses the degree to calculate an engineering level of each supply entity; and an output unit which outputs the supply entities in order of the engineering level.

Abstract: A supplier retrieval apparatus is offered which has a control section for accepting an input made by a buyer or a supplier from a supplier information storage portion where classification codes of parts capable of being offered by partner suppliers are stored, a computing section for extracting combinations of classification codes capable of being offered by candidate alternative suppliers in response to an input of retrieval conditions from a buyer and calculating the degrees of similarity with classification codes being capable of being offered from the partner suppliers, and an output portion for outputting the results of the calculations.

Abstract: Information that specifically points out quality problems in manufacturing processes can be provided to a supplier, thereby providing techniques capable of improving procurement quality. A present procurement quality improving system 1 has a calculating device 11 having a processing function of calculating problems of the manufacturing processes of the supplier and a data storage device 12. The data storage device 12 stores supplier QC process-chart information (D1), process FMEA information (D2) including quality related information, etc. The calculating device 11 has a matching calculating unit 111, which carries out a processing of associating D1 with D2, a first display calculating unit 112, which carries out a processing of presenting the information including quality problem information, etc. calculated by the association to the supplier, etc.

Abstract: A procurement risk calculation apparatus includes a control unit which accepts ordering information given by an orderer, via a network, and reads past ordering detail history information and BOM information, an operation unit which extracts a part for which plural corporation purchase is conducted and calculates a procurement risk such as a situation of dependence of child parts constituting an ordered part upon terminal suppliers on the basis of the ordering detail history information and the BOM information, and an output processing unit which outputs a screen to assist in determining selection intention of a part to be ordered and an order receiver enterprise on the basis of an operation result.

Abstract: An information provision system, which includes (i) a navigation apparatus in a vehicle and (ii) an information center, provides an occupant of the vehicle with information. The navigation apparatus and information center communicate via a wireless communication link. The navigation apparatus wirelessly acquires reception position information, which indicates several reception positions, from the information center. When determining that the vehicle reaches one of the reception positions, the navigation apparatus wirelessly acquires, in association with the reached reception position, display-related information containing (i) display position information indicating a display position and (ii) at-display-position window information indicating contents of a display window displayed at the display position.

Abstract: Conventionally, there is a technique to conduct a cause analysis in which a single evaluation axis, such as a performance time, is used to configure a problem point network. However, in particular, in a system to visualize a management problem in which problems are intricately-intertwined with one another, information on multiple evaluation axes, collected from a business system, are utilized, and units are different for respective evaluation axes. Therefore, it is difficult to simply specify a cause of problem occurrence. In view of this situation, an object of the present invention is to extract and present factor which has a significant influence on the problem occurrence.

Abstract: An information provision system, which includes (i) a navigation apparatus in a vehicle and (ii) an information center, provides an occupant of the vehicle with information. The navigation apparatus and information center communicate via a wireless communication link. The navigation apparatus wirelessly acquires reception position information, which indicates several reception positions, from the information center. When determining that the vehicle reaches one of the reception positions, the navigation apparatus wirelessly acquires, in association with the reached reception position, display-related information containing (i) display position information indicating a display position and (ii) at-display-position window information indicating contents of a display window displayed at the display position.

Abstract: The present invention enables analysis of customer needs with a high level of precision, not by indicating whether the customer opinions are positive or negative, but by quantitatively indicating their levels of importance.

Abstract: A vehicle navigation apparatus having a travel time map display function includes: a display unit for displaying a map around the vehicle together with a route and an expected travel time of the route; and a calculation unit for calculating the expected travel time of the route that is extending from a start point to a destination, when the travel time map display function is shown as an option in a menu screen. Upon selection of the function, the expected travel time of the route is displayed under a circumstance that (a) multiple registered points are pre-registered to the navigation apparatus, (b) one of the multiple registered points serves as the start point of multiple routes, and (c) each of the rest of the multiple registered points respectively serves as the destination of the multiple routes.

Abstract: To provide a technology for simultaneously designing a plurality of products and respectively evaluating each of the plurality of products thus designed, a module type constituting a product is specified, modules included in the module type are specified based on an attribute table storage area, candidate products are created by combining the modules thus specified, parameters corresponding to modules included in the candidate products are specified based on the parameter file storage area, an index for each of the candidate products is obtained by using the parameters thus specified, and the index thus obtained is displayed on a display unit.

Abstract: The present invention enables analysis of customer needs with a high level of precision, not by indicating whether the customer opinions are positive or negative, but by quantitatively indicating their levels of importance.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for cleaning nuclear reactor cooling water with cation exchange resin whose ion-exchanging groups have a bonding energy of not more than 300 KJ/mole are disclosed, whereby the radiation exposure of operators in an atomic power plant can be considerably reduced, and the waste ion exchange resin can be readily disposed.

Abstract: An optical dust detector assembly includes an air duct member having an introductory portion and a base portion for permitting a flow of air passing therethrough, the duct member having a pair of radial holes formed in its peripheral wall, a pair of cylindrical casings secured to the peripheral wall of the duct member at both sides thereof and having respective opening ends communicating with the interior of the duct member through the respective radial holes thereof, a light emission element arranged within one of the casings to emit a light beam and pass it through the radial holes toward the other casing, and a light receiving element arranged within the other casing to receive the light beam emitted from the light emission element and passed through the radial holes.