Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise.

Abstract: The present invention calculates a predicted accumulative import amount for each chemical substance for each month by using information on a predicted monthly shipping amount and the amount of a chemical substance contained in the product and specifies the chemical substance whose predicted accumulative import amount exceeds a regulation threshold and the time when the import amount exceeds the regulation threshold. The present invention specifies the product containing the chemical substance, calculates the predicted shipping amount of the product from the threshold excess time of the chemical substance to the end of the year, and calculates the loss amount caused by the loss of sales opportunities from the profit per unit sales amount for each product when any regulation measures are not executed on the chemical substance. The present invention finally calculates the ratio of the expense necessary for the measures and the summed value, and displays the ratio.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for documenting environmental information are to be provided to facilitate environmental load evaluation of the whole life cycles of system products and to reduce the length of time required for evaluation. Environmental information is documented by computing the environmental load level of each of individual life cycles and their totals by estimating environmental load factors and the quantities thereof with a section for inputting indicators representing costs correlated to the environmental load levels and the scales of use of system products together with indicators representing the class of the system products and a section for storing evaluating conditions found in existing cases of such evaluation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise.

Abstract: A method comprises the steps of: from member information of a trading partner as an object to be evaluated and order information on product items, estimating a supply chain associated with the member information and the item information; narrowing or screening the estimated supply chain by using attribute information associated with the item information; evaluating the response periods of individual members from the information request date and the information delivery date in the environment information exchange history of individual members in the narrowed supply chain; totaling the evaluated response periods of individual members according to the narrowed supply chain; and answering a user request by sending the totaled response period of the company being evaluated to a user computer.

Abstract: A product design support method and system are disclosed in which assuming that a globally distributed commodity is disposed of as a waste product by different recycle methods in different regions or countries, the recycle cost and environmental load accrued by different processing methods are quantified using the product design information thereby to assist in the design improvement. The product information and the regional recycle characteristics are input to determine the recycle method by region. Further, the recycle cost/environmental load by region are quantified based on the product design information using the basic unit information of the recycle cost and environmental load by region.

Abstract: In a physical distribution model of the circulation type, synchronization is established between a reuse plan and a delivery/fabrication plan to thereby reasonably reduce the excess and deficiency of inventory articles at a confluence point of regenerated reusable articles and newly delivered component parts. With regard to newly delivered lower-level items, predict a variation or fluctuation of stock quantity based on at least a delivery schedule of them and a present stock amount along with usage plans in manufacturing processes. As for lower-level items of regenerated articles, predict a delivery due date and an expected number of such regenerated lower-level items based on at least a stock quantity of recovered items collected for reuse purposes and a lead time for taking regenerated lower-level items out of the collected items, thereby controlling, based on the both prediction results, the stock quantity of the lower-level items in manufacturing processes.

Abstract: The present invention calculates a predicted accumulative import amount for each chemical substance for each month by using information on a predicted monthly shipping amount and the amount of a chemical substance contained in the product and specifies the chemical substance whose predicted accumulative import amount exceeds a regulation threshold and the time when the import amount exceeds the regulation threshold. The present invention specifies the product containing the chemical substance, calculates the predicted shipping amount of the product from the threshold excess time of the chemical substance to the end of the year, and calculates the loss amount caused by the loss of sales opportunities from the profit per unit sales amount for each product when any regulation measures are not executed on the chemical substance. The present invention finally calculates the ratio of the expense necessary for the measures and the summed value, and displays the ratio.

Abstract: In the case of providing a new information apparatus purchased for the replacement of or for the use in addition to a currently used information apparatus, the present invention enables a user to use the new information apparatus immediately after the delivery by providing the user with the new information apparatus in such a state that the setups and/or data of the currently used information apparatus are stored therein. The new information apparatus is delivered in the aforementioned state by: receiving from the user an order of a service for transferring setups, data and the like at the same time with receiving an order of the new information apparatus; transmitting from the user to an administrative information apparatus the setups, data and the like to be transferred by using a setups/data transfer-dedicated tool; and transmitting and setting up the contents transmitted to the administrative information apparatus to the new information apparatus to be produced according to the user's order.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which is capable of supporting a designer in confirming constituent information of a component at early stages of design. The system has a functional configuration, in which constituents contained in a target component and a content of each of the constituents are calculated referring to a constituent information table based on identification information of the target component. Conformity of the constituent to environmental regulations is evaluated based on the content. A component similar to the target component is extracted referring to an environmental qualification information table to calculate constituents contained in the similar component and a content of each of the constituents; and credibility of evaluation of the conformity to environmental regulations is evaluated based on a difference between the content of the constituent in the target component and the content of the constituent in the similar component.

Abstract: A manufactured article treatment processing method and system includes reading out from a manufactured article being subjected to treatment information of component parts of the article and specific properties of the component parts, extraction of the component parts to be separated on the basis of predetermined specific properties serving as information for detachment and specific properties of the component parts, and treatment of the component parts to be separated and other components parts through different processes, respectively.

Abstract: A manufactured article treatment processing method and system includes reading out from a manufactured article being subjected to treatment information of component parts of the article and specific properties of the component parts, extraction of the component parts to be separated on the basis of predetermined specific properties serving as information for detachment and specific properties of the component parts, and treatment of the component parts to be separated and other components parts through different processes, respectively.

Abstract: The movement of products, information and costs is efficiently managed at low cost in the collection and recycling of home products. A system is provided where, for managing the flow of collection and recycling of home products, required information is managed between a center which manages the whole, a collection applicant, a collection company, a disassembly company and a manufacturer, and required information is exchanged between the parties concerned. The collection applicant transmits information such as information about home products which it is desired to have collected and information about the location from which they are to be collected, the management center requests the collection company to collect the products, the collection company performs the collection and recovers a fee, the collection items are delivered to a disassembly company, and the disassembly company performs appropriate re-use and recycling, while analyzing the recycle rate and lowering costs.

Abstract: The present invention gives techniques for using an information system, including a computer, to provide a user, such as a manufacturer, with reusable parts for use in the building of or maintaining a product. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method, using a computer, for buying a reusable part for use in manufacturing a product is provided. The method includes a user sending to a supplier requirements for the reusable part; Next the users receives information on a plurality of available reusable parts meeting or exceeding said requirements from the supplier (or broker). The information includes individual historical information for each available reusable part. The user then orders an available reusable part and uses the reusable part in manufacturing the product.

Abstract: A product design support method and system are disclosed in which assuming that a globally distributed commodity is disposed of as a waste product by different recycle methods in different regions or countries, the recycle cost and environmental load accrued by different processing methods are quantified using the product design information thereby to assist in the design improvement. The product information and the regional recycle characteristics are input to determine the recycle method by region. Further, the recycle cost/environmental load by region are quantified based on the product design information using the basic unit information of the recycle cost and environmental load by region.

Abstract: According to a lower limit value of the recycling ratio of collected used products in a storage, constitution of raw materials of collected used products in a storage, constitution of products utilizing recycled materials in a storage, a lower limit value of a recycled material utilization ratio in a storage, a predicted supply amount of raw materials to a recycle process in a storage, and a production plan of products utilizing recycled materials of a production process in a storage, a calculation module creates a production plan of recycled materials in a recycle process to minimize the total of a before-recycle stock in the recycle process and a before-production stock in the production process. Using the production plan of recycled materials, the calculation module obtains a change plan of a recycled material utilization ratio to create a production plan of products utilizing recycled materials in the production process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which is capable of supporting a designer in confirming constituent information of a component at early stages of design.

Abstract: A method is established which, through the use of a parts table, makes it possible to recognize amounts of chemical substances contained in in-company manufactured parts. This establishment allows implementation of the compliance with regulations on the chemical substances based on laws or the like. Taking advantage of the following four types of data, types and amounts of chemical substances contained within a product are computed and displayed, thereby presenting laws or the like which regulate the chemical substances: Parts data indicating a list of parts and in-company manufactured parts used in the product and chemical substances contained in the manufacturing processes, supply-maker data indicating supply sources of the parts and materials, parts chemical-substance data indicating the chemical substances contained in the parts, and law-and-others regulated-substance data indicating contents of the law-based regulations, client-based safety criterions, or the like.

Abstract: A design change support system constructed to store profile data containing information of products and members, alternative relevant data containing the relation between a old member and a new member and data of the inventory, consumption and delivery of each member, to read out a delivery lead time of each member contained in the profile data, to, when a product test due date is entered, order necessary members and calculate a consumption schedule of alternative members on the basis of the product test due date, and to contrive one or more schemes of the test configuration containing the member constitution of a product capable of being tested on a day near the product test due date and the test start date by using the delivery and stock status data and alternative relevant data of each member.

Abstract: A method of paying the fee of recycling a used product is disclosed, which includes the steps of managing ID information of a recycle certificate issued and sales information indicating the recycle certificate sold to a discharger in a corresponding relation with each other to form a recycle certificate information, calculating a recycle certificate sales price based on contents of the recycle certificate information and demanding and receiving the calculated recycle certificate sales price, and paying the demanded recycle certificate sales price. As a result, the account for the fees of the product recycle among plural entities involved in the product recycle can be settled both accurately and properly.