Abstract: An information management device collects from a plurality of equipment and retains operation information being information that indicates operation statuses of the plurality of equipment, and refers with an information utilizing device that provides a service that utilizes the operation information, including retaining information relating to a contract that has defined a service level provided in relation to the equipment, acquiring the contract information of the equipment, and creating based on the contract information management policy information being information that defines a management scheme of the operation information retained for each of the equipment, to include storage location information being information of a storage location of at least each of the storage information.

Abstract: A sensor device for detecting product quality conditions is attached to each product to be delivered, and constant monitoring is performed on quality conditions of stock products in a storage room of a delivery center for quality assurance. For products in a storage room of a delivery truck, constant monitoring is also performed on quality conditions thereof in the same manner. If a quality abnormality is found in a product in the storage room, information regarding product sensing items and information regarding the current location of each delivery truck are processed to select a replacement stock product less susceptible to recurrence of a similar quality abnormality at the time of redelivery.

Abstract: A sensor device for detecting product quality conditions is attached to each product to be delivered, and constant monitoring is performed on quality conditions of stock products in a storage room of a delivery center for quality assurance. For products in a storage room of a delivery truck, constant monitoring is also performed on quality conditions thereof in the same manner. If a quality abnormality is found in a product in the storage room, information regarding product sensing items and information regarding the current location of each delivery truck are processed to select a replacement stock product less susceptible to recurrence of a similar quality abnormality at the time of redelivery.

Abstract: In an assembled product, a decrease in reading efficiency is avoided from being deteriorated by reading the electronic tags of the parts and the assembled product, registering their configuration information, and by placing read restriction on the electronic tags of the parts. For this purpose, manufacturing instruction information, used for assembling parts into an assembled product, is used. When replaced, the electronic tags of the assembled product are read, read restriction is removed from the assembled product, the electronic tag is read, the electronic tag of a new part to be installed is read, read restriction is placed on the electronic tag, and the configuration information is updated. An invalid part replacement is detected by comparing the configuration information.

Abstract: An IC tag issue management system includes an ID numbering DB which stores an ID and a status of the ID, and an ID history DB which stores the ID, a history number indicating a reuse history of the ID, and a usage history indicated by the history number correlated with each other with each other. The IC tag issue management system numbers the ID with the usage history having a time elapsing from a starting date of the usage history in which the end date is not stored in the ID history DB passing over a predetermined ID-non-reusable period in response to a request for numbering the ID to be written into the IC tag when the unnumbered ID which has not been allocated to the IC tag, and the ID having the status of the ID numbering DB set in the “unused” status do not exist.

Abstract: In traceability system applications, it is required to check relationships between individual articles under management and containers therefor such as container cases or pallets. Since relevant data in each stage of physical distribution is not always registered, the absence of some necessary data may occur to cause inaccurate commodity tracing. To solve this disadvantage, the present invention provides a traceability system capable of complementing information regardless of time-series factors. Even in a situation where a plurality of sets of information (relational data) regarding packing-unpacking relationships between articles and containers, e.g., relationships between commodity products and packing cases, or relationships between packing cases and pallets, are not registered in time-series order, the relational data are complemented in registration to enable complementary estimation from registered information available at the time of reference.

Abstract: A shelf reader reads a product unique ID of an IC tag attached to a product on a shelf. In accordance with the reading result, a shelf terminal detects whether the product is taken out from the shelf or not, and forwards the detection result to a product information management server together with the product unique ID. In the product information management server, a related product information extraction section refers to a related product information database, and extracts any related product information including the type of the product taken out from the shelf. This related product information indicates a combination of a plurality of products that are considered preferable to purchase together. An advertisement information creation section creates advertisement information based on thus extracted related product information. The resulting advertisement information is forwarded to the shelf terminal, and then is displayed by an output section of the shelf terminal.

Abstract: An identifier such as an IC tag attached to a commodity is read by an antenna connected to a display rack or an information terminal. A server receives the read result, analyse the purchase action of the customer from the identifier ID, the antenna position information, etc, and proposes a totalization result. For example, detailed information of purchase actions for each customer such as a read result for each commodity and a commodity simultaneously read is displayed on terminals for the manager of the shop and managers at headquarters. The totalization result is displayed for the customer as a popular or good selling commodity of the shop on an information terminal inside the shop.

Abstract: This invention provides a computer system capable of jointly delivering commodities not included in delivery plan information even after the delivery plan information is generated, and each base receives the generated delivery plan information, or a transport unit has made the round of each base. The computer system for realizing a delivery system which controls the transport unit to make the round of bases, thereby delivering commodities to the bases, includes a shipping base terminal, a reception base terminal, a transport terminal, and an information management computer, and the information management computer refers to attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered to select commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered from the commodities planned to be delivered, and corrects the delivery plan information.

Abstract: An identifier such as an IC tag attached to a commodity is read by an antenna connected to a display rack or an information terminal. A server receives the read result, analyse the purchase action of the customer from the identifier ID, the antenna position information, etc, and proposes a totalization result. For example, detailed information of purchase actions for each customer such as a read result for each commodity and a commodity simultaneously read is displayed on terminals for the manager of the shop and managers at headquarters. The totalization result is displayed for the customer as a popular or good selling commodity of the shop on an information terminal inside the shop.