Abstract: Heart side magnets 20 and 21 are fixedly secured to the surface of a heart 100. A material which has a higher rigidity than the cardiac muscle is molded to form a molded member 30. Molded member side magnets 40 and 41 are attached to the molded member 30 so as to correspond to the heart side magnets 20 and 21. The polarity of one of the heart side magnets 20 and 21 and the molded member side magnets 40 and 41 is switched at predetermined timings, whereby the heart 100 is magnetically expanded and contracted to improve the pumping function.

Abstract: A workflow management system capable of directly capturing image information transmitted by a facsimile machine is disclosed. The workflow management system includes an object identifying unit identifying an object to be associated with image information received by a facsimile machine, the object being defined in the workflow management system; and a related document registering unit associating the image information with the identified object, and registering the image information associated with the identified object.

Abstract: A workflow management system for managing a workflow constituted of plural hierarchically segment tasks is disclosed. The workflow management system includes a storage unit that stores task information; a calculation unit that acquires the task information from the storage unit and calculates a critical path of the workflow from information on structures of the plural tasks, dependence between the plural tasks, statuses of the plural tasks, and schedules of the plural tasks contained in the task information; and a display control unit that causes the critical path calculated by the calculation unit to be displayed on a screen.

Abstract: A work flow system executing a process comprising an activity which is a particular job and a transition which defines an order of the activities, includes a means for stopping the processes on execution; a means for editing the thus-stopped process; a means for checking a consistency of the thus-edited process; a means for determining a re-start position in the process; and a means for re-starting the process from the re-start position.

Abstract: In a document management device, a document-management unit manages documents, and an access control management unit manages information of a taking-over relation between groups of an access right of a document. The document-management unit acquires, in response to a document acquisition request from a client, both information of a currently valid group to which a user who has sent the document acquisition request belongs and information of a past group from which the currently valid group takes over an access right of the document, from the access control management unit. And the document-management unit determines whether information of group IDs of groups allowed to access the document is contained in the acquired information of the currently valid group and the past group.

Abstract: A process management apparatus capable of editing a process is disclosed that includes a log recording part recording the result of execution of the process as a log and a process definition entering part entering a process definition reconfigured based on the log, the process definition being the template of the process.

Abstract: A process management apparatus is disclosed that includes a process execution control part configured to control execution of a process. The process execution control part retrieves multiple process definitions that are process templates based on context information relating to the execution of the process, and merges the retrieved process definitions into a process definition or reconfigures a process definition based on the retrieved process definitions, so as to allow a user to proceed with the process without selecting the process definition.

Abstract: A process editing apparatus is disclosed that includes an editing part that edits a process in execution.

Abstract: A tool management method in a factory automation (FA) system uses an FA computer and machining cells. An FA computer such as a cell controller is connected with computer numerically-controlled units via bi-directional communication lines. When data on a tool service life or the like is changed on the cell controller (S1, S2), the changed data on the tool service life is sent to a computer numerically-controlled unit (S3) to update the data on the tool service life stored in the computer numerically-controlled unit (CNC) (S4). Similarly, when the computer numerically-controlled unit changes the number of times the tool has been used or the like, the changed data is sent to the cell controller in the same way. This enables the cell controller to be always informed of the most recent tool management data. And as the computer numerically-controlled units can immediately obtain tool management data that has been changed at the cell controller, a more efficient tool management is ensured.