Abstract: To ensure robustness to a production variation. A control rule generating device for generating a control rule of a production facility including at least a production device, includes: a rule storage unit configured to store candidates of a dispatching rule serving as the control rule usable for each of the production facility and a control program for implementing the dispatching rule; and a control rule assigning unit configured to specify, for each of the production facility, the dispatching rule corresponding to a predetermined production plan among the candidates of the dispatching rule as the dispatching rule to be applied, and transmit the control program corresponding to the specified dispatching rule to the production facility.

Abstract: A work instruction system includes: a production progress management device including a communication unit configured to communicate with a work instruction device, a product signal storage unit that stores a product signal including position information of a product, a product in-progress process estimation unit configured to estimate an in-progress process of the product using the position information, and a production progress estimation and update unit configured to estimate production progress of the product in accordance with a change in the position information and update production progress information; and the work instruction device including a communication unit configured to communicate with the production progress management device, a production progress storage unit that stores the production progress information, a data collection unit configured to obtain progress management information updated from the production progress management device, a recommended work generation unit configured to gen

Abstract: The production management system includes: a first storage unit which stores actual production information including actual production values of the production of products in the production facility; a second storage unit which stores status information indicating a status of the production facility; a third storage unit which stores master information including a first threshold for detecting an abnormality in the production of products in the production facility; a calculation unit which calculates a correction term according to the status of the production facility based on the status information, and calculates a second threshold in which the calculated correction term is set to a first threshold included in the master information stored in the third storage unit; and a detection unit which detects an abnormality in the production of products in the production facility by using the actual production value included in the actual production information and the second threshold.

Abstract: The apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store a production instruction serving as an operation instruction for a production element including a production facility of a factory, a production resource, and an operator, production state information including an occurrence state of an abnormality of the production element, and facility-process relation information for identifying, for each process to be performed by the production element, another production element capable of alternatively performing the process; a planning change necessity determination unit configured to, when an abnormality in execution of the production instruction occurs in the production element, determine that planning change is unnecessary when the production instruction can be complied in consideration of a stop period of the production element that is caused by the abnormality; a distributed planning range calculation unit configured to include the another alternative production element in a re-planning target range; and

Abstract: Provided is a technique for executing production planning having appropriate responsiveness even when the number of participating companies accommodating resources is increased. A resource accommodation device includes: a resource registration receiving unit that stores a resource registration request including a type of an available resource and an available date and time in a schedule storage unit of a predetermined resource upon receiving the resource registration request; and a resource candidate presentation unit that searches through resources stored in the schedule storage unit upon receiving a type of a requested resource and a date and time of using the resource, selects a resource satisfying a predetermined criterion, and presents the resource as a resource candidate having been selected.

Abstract: A production plan supporting apparatus and method capable of effectively supporting making of a production plan for a product whose production process has a branch(es). According to the production plan supporting apparatus and method when sequentially inputting a work(s) on a production unit basis to a production process in accordance with a predetermined input plan, first models regarding each of which probability of existence of the work in each time slot of each process is calculated are generated for respective production units, and a second model in which all the generated first models for the respective production units are stacked over one another is generated; and the time slot of the process which will become a bottleneck is identified and displayed on the basis of the second model.

Abstract: What is provided includes a storage unit configured to store a production result, a production plan and user information for each manufacture manufactured in a manufacturing site, an improvement target extraction unit configured to analyze a combination of the production result and the production plan and extract an element which becomes a target to be improved, an improvement measure estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement measure effective for the element which becomes the target to be improved from an analysis result of the production result and the production plan, and an analysis result generation unit configured to specify predetermined layout using attribute information included in the user information and generate a screen which provides the target to be improved and an improvement measure to a user in accordance with the layout.

Abstract: A production loss is reduced using shop-floor data. A work instruction device includes: a storage unit configured to store shop-floor data including production performance information for each manufactured object manufactured at a manufacturing shop-floor, worker dynamics information obtained from a sensor attached to a worker at the manufacturing shop-floor, and information on an operation history of a facility at the manufacturing shop-floor; a production loss occurrence pattern extraction unit configured to analyze the shop-floor data based on a predetermined method to generate a production loss occurrence pattern; and a work instruction generation unit configured to estimate occurrence of a production loss based on a work plan for a work corresponding to a date and time, a facility, and a worker corresponding to the production loss occurrence pattern to generate work instruction information including information on a cause of the production loss.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to quickly provide an effective recovery plan for a delay problem occurring at a manufacturing site. A dynamic production planning system includes a dynamic production planning device, and the dynamic production planning device includes a process actual result storage unit that includes a record of time spent on production for each item and process, a process plan actual result storage unit that includes a production facility of which usage is planned and assumed work time thereof for each item and process, and a recovery scenario generating unit configured to calculate, for each item and process, an index indicating a risk of a delay using the time spent on production and the production facility of which usage is planned and the assumed work time thereof for each item and process.

Abstract: The time required to modify order allocation rules is shortened in a production planning system. A performance rule is generated, in which a manufacturing condition is set as the input and a manufacturing facility is set as the output, based on allocation performance data representing a performance of allocating the manufacturing facility for the manufacturing condition. A comparison table is generated representing a difference between the performance rule and an existing rule in which the manufacturing condition is set as the input and the manufacturing facility is set as the output. A modification rule is generated in which the existing rule is modified according to a user operation on the comparison table; and an evaluation index is calculated for production plan data corresponding to each of the existing rule and the modification rule. The rule modification unit generates the comparison table including a modification plan for the existing rule.

Abstract: A work instruction system includes: a production progress management device including a communication unit configured to communicate with a work instruction device, a product signal storage unit that stores a product signal including position information of a product, a product in-progress process estimation unit configured to estimate an in-progress process of the product using the position information, and a production progress estimation and update unit configured to estimate production progress of the product in accordance with a change in the position information and update production progress information; and the work instruction device including a communication unit configured to communicate with the production progress management device, a production progress storage unit that stores the production progress information, a data collection unit configured to obtain progress management information updated from the production progress management device, a recommended work generation unit configured to gen

Abstract: A production plan supporting apparatus and method capable of effectively supporting making of a production plan for a product whose production process has a branch(es). According to the production plan supporting apparatus and method when sequentially inputting a work(s) on a production unit basis to a production process in accordance with a predetermined input plan, first models regarding each of which probability of existence of the work in each time slot of each process is calculated are generated for respective production units, and a second model in which all the generated first models for the respective production units are stacked over one another is generated; and the time slot of the process which will become a bottleneck is identified and displayed on the basis of the second model.

Abstract: A CPU 501 of a production management support apparatus 500 is configured to execute: a process of acquiring capability information of a plurality of workers; a process of acquiring work information of a plurality of kinds of work; a process of acquiring work performance information including a work status of a plurality of kinds of work actually executed by the plurality of workers; a process of accepting a designation of a target worker and target work; a process of acquiring the work performance information of the plurality of workers related to the plurality of kinds of work, and generating a predictive model which adopts a work status in the work performance information of each work as a target variable, and which adopts any plurality of feature amounts among feature amounts included in the work information and the capability information as an explanatory variable; a process of applying the predictive model to the capability information of the target worker and the work information of the target work, to

Abstract: An object of the invention is to quickly provide an effective recovery plan for a delay problem occurring at a manufacturing site. A dynamic production planning system includes a dynamic production planning device, and the dynamic production planning device includes a process actual result storage unit that includes a record of time spent on production for each item and process, a process plan actual result storage unit that includes a production facility of which usage is planned and assumed work time thereof for each item and process, and a recovery scenario generating unit configured to calculate, for each item and process, an index indicating a risk of a delay using the time spent on production and the production facility of which usage is planned and the assumed work time thereof for each item and process.

Abstract: A working equipment specification support apparatus includes: a storage device that stores workable equipment candidate information which is information of a workable equipment candidate for each process, and workable item attribute condition information which is a workable item attribute condition for each equipment or each combination of equipment and a process; and an operation device that executes processing of specifying a workable equipment candidate related to a predetermined process from the workable equipment candidate information, processing of determining whether or not a predetermined item attribute satisfies regulations in the workable item attribute condition information for each specified equipment candidate or for each combination of the specified equipment candidate and the predetermined process, and processing of specifying an equipment candidate that whose item attribute is determined to satisfy the regulations in the determination as equipment that can perform working on an item correspond

Abstract: A CPU 501 of a production management support apparatus 500 is configured to execute: a process of acquiring capability information of a plurality of workers; a process of acquiring work information of a plurality of kinds of work; a process of acquiring work performance information including a work status of a plurality of kinds of work actually executed by the plurality of workers; a process of accepting a designation of a target worker and target work; a process of acquiring the work performance information of the plurality of workers related to the plurality of kinds of work, and generating a predictive model which adopts a work status in the work performance information of each work as a target variable, and which adopts any plurality of feature amounts among feature amounts included in the work information and the capability information as an explanatory variable; a process of applying the predictive model to the capability information of the target worker and the work information of the target work, to

Abstract: Provided is a technique for executing production planning having appropriate responsiveness even when the number of participating companies accommodating resources is increased. A resource accommodation device includes: a resource registration receiving unit that stores a resource registration request including a type of an available resource and an available date and time in a schedule storage unit of a predetermined resource upon receiving the resource registration request; and a resource candidate presentation unit that searches through resources stored in the schedule storage unit upon receiving a type of a requested resource and a date and time of using the resource, selects a resource satisfying a predetermined criterion, and presents the resource as a resource candidate having been selected.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device, a system, and a method for setting standard work times that take real-world manufacturing capabilities into account. Provided is a standard work time calculation device (10), which analyzes fluctuations in production line assessment indices on a per time period basis, and computes standard work times for each region, as classified according to the degree of fluctuation. The standard work time calculation device (10) comprises a fluctuation coefficient computation unit (111), which computes coefficients of fluctuation for the assessment indices, a fluctuation region identification unit (112), which identifies regions of fluctuation with coefficients of fluctuation that are greater than or equal to predetermined thresholds, and a standard work time computation unit (113), which computes standard work times for regions of fluctuation.

Abstract: A dynamic maintenance planning apparatus including a maintenance planning device and a priority calculating device is provided. The maintenance planning device determines a maintenance date and time on and at which the throughput of a manufacturing system is maximum from among possible maintenance dates and times based on a simulation result in which a specific manufacturing apparatus on a manufacturing system is stopped at a specified maintenance date and time, and, for the maintenance at the determined maintenance date and time, specifies a lot whose completion is predicted to be delayed. The priority calculating device calculates a priority of the lot whose completion is predicted to be delayed so as to prevent waiting time of the lot during the maintenance.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device, a system, and a method for setting standard work times that take real-world manufacturing capabilities into account. Provided is a standard work time calculation device (10), which analyzes fluctuations in production line assessment indices on a per time period basis, and computes standard work times for each region, as classified according to the degree of fluctuation. The standard work time calculation device (10) comprises a fluctuation coefficient computation unit (111), which computes coefficients of fluctuation for the assessment indices, a fluctuation region identification unit (112), which identifies regions of fluctuation with coefficients of fluctuation that are greater than or equal to predetermined thresholds, and a standard work time computation unit (113), which computes standard work times for regions of fluctuation.