Management apparatus, management method, and management program

Abstract

SOLUTION: A management apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communication unit receives first data and second data, the first data including at least one of main input data including the amount of production target objects to be supplied, sub input data including the amount of materials for production used, and sub output data including the amount of by-products generated, the second data including main output data including the amount of products produced, the first data and the second data being stored in the storage unit. The control unit includes a designation receiving unit and a display control unit. The designation receiving unit receives a designation of periods for the first data and the second data to be displayed. The display control unit performs control to display the first data in the period at intervals of first time, and display the second data at intervals of second time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a management device, a management method, and a management program. [Background technology]

[0002] Patent Document 1 discloses a greenhouse gas emission management device. [Prior art document] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] JP2012-247954 Summary of the Invention [Means for solving the problem]

[0004] A management device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communication unit receives first data including at least one of main input data including an input amount of a production object, side input data including an amount of production material used, and side output data including an amount of a production by-product generated, and second data including main output data including an amount of a production output. The first data and the second data are stored in the storage unit. The control unit includes a designation receiving unit and a display control unit. The designation receiving unit receives designation of a period for the first data and the second data to be displayed. The display control unit controls displaying the first data at a first time interval and the second data at a second time interval during the period.

[0005] In the above management device, the control unit further includes a derivation unit that converts the usage amount of the secondary input data included in the first data into a generation amount of secondary output data using conversion data stored in the storage unit, and sums the converted amount with the generation amount of the secondary output data included in the first data. The display control unit controls to display the summed generation amount at the first time interval.

[0006] In the management device, the communication unit receives third data related to the production facility, and the display control unit controls to display the third data in a manner that allows comparison with the first data and the second data.

[0007] In the above management device, the first data includes at least one of the usage amounts of electricity, water, oil, and gas, the second data includes the production amount of a product, and the first time interval and the second time interval are both 10 minutes.

[0008] In the management device, the designation receiving unit receives designation of at least one of a target factory, a product, a process, a counting method, and a type of first data, and the display control unit controls display of the first data and the second data according to at least one of the designated factory, the product, the process, the counting method, and the type of first data.

[0009] In the above-mentioned management device, the control unit further includes an identification unit and a response instruction unit. The identification unit identifies a part of data based on a predetermined flow or a user operation in response to the display by the display control unit or the derivation result by the derivation unit. The response instruction unit transmits a signal instructing the identification unit to respond to the identification based on the predetermined flow or the user operation.

[0010] In a management method according to one aspect of the present invention, a computer receives first data including at least one of main input data including an input amount of a production object, side input data including an amount of production material used, and side output data including an amount of a production by-product generated, and second data including main output data including an amount of a production result. The first data and the second data are stored in a storage unit. A designation of a period for the first data and the second data to be displayed is accepted. Control is performed to display the first data at a first time interval and the second data at a second time interval during the period.

[0011] A management program according to an aspect of the present invention causes a computer to execute the above-described management method.

[0012] The above summary of the invention does not list all of the features of the present invention. Also, subcombinations of these features may also be inventions. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0013] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of an overall configuration of a management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. [Diagram 2] FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional block of a management device according to the present embodiment. [Diagram 3] FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation flow of a management device according to the present embodiment. [Figure 4] FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between inputs, processes, and outputs according to the embodiment. [Diagram 5] 4A to 4C are diagrams illustrating an example of first data and second data received according to the embodiment. [Figure 6] FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a designation receiving screen according to the embodiment. [Figure 7] FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to the embodiment. [Figure 8] 4A to 4C are diagrams showing examples of displaying first data, second data, a first time interval, and a second time interval according to the present embodiment. [Figure 9] 10A to 10C are diagrams showing other examples of displaying the first data, the second data, the first time interval, and the second time interval according to the embodiment. [Figure 10] FIG. 11 is a diagram showing another example of the display screen according to the embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0014] The present invention will be described below through embodiments of the invention, but the following embodiments do not limit the scope of the invention according to the claims. Furthermore, not all of the combinations of features described in the embodiments are necessarily essential to the solution of the invention.

[0015] In recent years, in order to reduce costs associated with the traditional production of goods and provision of services, companies and organizations are being asked to take various measures for sustainable growth, such as efficient operation of facilities, use of materials and energy, and provision of services, in addition to addressing the urgent issues of climate change, preserving biodiversity, and addressing environmental issues including the transition to a circular economy, addressing social issues including the working environment, human rights, gender equality, and human capital, and addressing governance issues including corporate ethics and accountability. In addressing these various issues, there is an increasing need to utilize data related to the activities of companies, organizations, etc., such as the production of goods and provision of services.

[0016] The management device 100 according to this embodiment realizes management that contributes to the utilization of data.

[0017] FIG. 1 shows an example of the overall configuration of a management system 10 according to the present embodiment. The management system 10 includes a management device 100, a terminal 200, and a plurality of transmission devices 300. The management device 100 communicates with the terminal 200 and the transmission devices 300 via a network 50. The management device 100 may directly receive an operation, or may receive an operation through the terminal 200. The management device 100 manages data received from at least one of the plurality of transmission devices 300. In the present embodiment, an example in which the management system 10 includes one management device 100 will be described. However, the management system 10 may include a management device 100 for each different company, for example. Data may be exchanged between the plurality of management devices 100. The management system 10 may be configured within one facility, or may be configured between different facilities (different organizations).

[0018] FIG. 2 shows an example of a functional block of the management device 100. The management device 100 may be configured as a computer as hardware. The computer may execute the management method described in the present specification by a management program. The management device 100 includes a control unit 110, a communication unit 120, and a storage unit 130. The control unit 110 may be configured by a microprocessor such as a CPU or MPU, a microcontroller such as an MCU, or the like. The communication unit 120 manages communication between each component in the management device 100. In addition, the communication unit 120 communicates with external computers such as the terminal 200 and the transmission device 300 via a network 50 such as the Internet. The storage unit 130 stores information received from each terminal 200 and data received from the transmission device 300, and the like.

[0019] The control unit 110 includes a designation receiving unit 112, a display control unit 114, and a derivation unit 116. The designation receiving unit 112 receives a designation regarding the display of data, and stores information regarding the designation in the storage unit 130. The display control unit 114 displays the data received from the transmission device 300 on an output device such as a display connected to the management device 100 or an output device of an external computer such as a terminal 200 with which the management device 100 communicates, according to the designation. The derivation unit 116 derives other data from the data received from the transmission device 300 and the data stored in the storage unit 130 as described below, and stores the other data in the storage unit 130. The derivation unit 116 may use the conversion data stored in the storage unit 130 to convert the usage amount of secondary input data included in the first data described below into the generation amount of secondary output data, and add it to the generation amount of secondary output data included in the first data.

[0020] FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an operation flow of the management device 100 according to this embodiment.

[0021] The communication unit 120 receives first data including at least one of main input data including the amount of input of production objects, secondary input data including the amount of production materials used, and secondary output data including the amount of production by-products generated, as well as second data including main output data including the production amount of production results, and the first data and the second data are stored in the memory unit 130 (S100).

[0022] Here, specific examples of the main input data, the sub input data, the main output data, and the sub output data will be described with reference to Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between the input, the process, and the output according to this embodiment.

[0023] Fig. 4 shows production processes 1 to 3 for product A. Each process is equipped with facilities 401 to 403 for processing, assembly, etc. In this figure, facilities 401 and 402 perform processing to manufacture parts from materials, and facility 403 performs assembly to assemble products from the parts. Note that the facilities may include not only manufacturing equipment used for processing and assembly, but also various machinery and tools attached to the manufacturing equipment, such as clean rooms and conveyor belts.

[0024] In process 1, materials a1 and a2, etc. are input into equipment 401 (main input 1), and electricity, gas, water, etc. (secondary input 1) are used to produce processed part a6 (main output 1), while greenhouse gases (GHG), waste, by-products, etc. (secondary output 1) are generated during the processing. Similarly, in process 2, materials a3 to a5, etc. are input into equipment 402 (main input 2), and electricity, gas, water, etc. (secondary input 2) are used to produce processed part a7 (main output 2), while greenhouse gases (GHG), waste, by-products, etc. (secondary output 2) are generated during the processing. In process 3, parts a6 (primary output 1) and a7 (primary output 2) produced in processes 1 and 2 are input into equipment 403 as primary input 3, and assembled product A (primary output 3) is produced using electricity, gas, water, etc. (secondary input 3) in the same way as in processes 1 and 2. At the same time, it is shown that greenhouse gases (GHG), waste, by-products, etc. (secondary output 3) are generated during the assembly process.

[0025] In FIG. 4, the terms material, part, and product are used in the main input and main output, but are not limited to these. For example, the material may be a raw material, a main component, etc., the part may be a single part, a component part, a processed product, an intermediate material, etc., and the product may be a finished product, a final material, a composite, a compound, etc. Information on various raw materials, materials, parts, etc. to be manufactured may be acquired by linking with databases of each industry. For example, IMDS (trademark), which is a material database for the automobile industry, may be used as the database. In addition, in FIG. 4, the equipment 401 to 403 are shown as machinery equipment for processing, assembly, etc., but are not limited to this. For example, in this embodiment, the equipment 401 to 403 may be instruments, media, etc. used in chemistry or bioengineering, and steps 1 to 3 may be performed by methods such as chemical reactions and cell culture. Similarly, in FIG. 4, some examples related to machinery equipment are shown in the secondary input and secondary output, but are not limited to this. In other embodiments, each input and output may be related to other activities. For example, each input and output may be the input (movement of people and vehicles, working hours, etc.) and output (service content such as transportation, wages and fees, etc.) of activities in the provision of a service. In what follows, "production" will mainly be explained as the production of goods, but it also includes activities of an organization that do not produce goods, such as the provision of services.

[0026] Here, the main input data, sub input data, main output data, and sub output data may be acquired by measurements using measuring instruments installed in the equipment, values ​​previously determined as the performance of the equipment, or input by an operator. The main input data is data related to objects (production objects) such as materials and raw materials that are processed or assembled. In particular, the main input data may include the input amount of production objects such as objects input in a certain period of time. The sub input data is data related to power sources such as electricity, gas, water, steam, or oil, energy, and other objects (production objects) used in production in the equipment that performs processing or assembly. In particular, the sub input data may include the usage amount of production objects such as energy used in a certain period of time. The main output data is data related to objects (production deliverables) such as parts, intermediate materials, products, and final materials that are directly related to the production of products among objects generated by processing or assembly of the equipment. In particular, the main output data may include the production amount of production deliverables produced in a certain period of time. The production amount may include a predetermined quantity related to the produced objects, such as the number of production lots, in addition to the number of production items. By-output data is data on greenhouse gases, waste, by-products, and other items (production by-products) that are generated by the processing or assembly of equipment, other than the product. In particular, by-output data may include the amount of production by-products generated over a certain period of time. Note that the above terms input, usage, production, and generation are used for convenience, but in this specification, even when it would be more appropriate to simply say "use" rather than "input" for the product being produced, they are referred to as "input."

[0027] In addition, each data may also include offsetting data for subtracting or offsetting input amounts, usage amounts, production amounts, generation amounts, etc. For example, if the amount of greenhouse gas generated is included as secondary output data, the secondary output data may further include, as offsetting data, the measured amount of the greenhouse gas captured by equipment that captures, absorbs, stores, fixes, etc. the generated greenhouse gas, or the amount captured as a predetermined performance, and in displaying the secondary output data, the amount generated and the amount captured may be displayed separately, or may be displayed as a value obtained by subtracting the amount captured from the amount generated.

[0028] Returning to S100 in FIG. 3, the first data and the second data are stored in the storage unit 130.

[0029] Here, referring to FIG. 5, an example of the received first data and second data is shown. In this embodiment, the first data and the second data may be transmitted from the transmitting device 300. In FIG. 5, the column "received date and time" indicates the date and time when the communication unit 120 of the management device 100 received the data of each row transmitted from the transmitting device 300. Also, "acquisition source" indicates how the data of each row was acquired. For example, "meters 1 to 10" indicates that the data was acquired from the measuring instruments numbered as meter 1, meter 2, ... meter 10 among various measuring instruments (e.g., smart meters, ammeters, voltmeters, clocks, frequency meters, barometers, thermometers, spectrophotometers, semiconductor detectors, radars, etc.) installed in each facility. Meanwhile, "(manual input)" indicates that, for example, the number of produced items was visually confirmed by an operator or the like and acquired and input as data. "Acquisition interval" indicates how often the data of each row was acquired. For example, "10 minutes" indicates that each data was acquired at 10-minute intervals.

[0030] "Acquired Data 1" and "Acquired Data 2" indicate the contents of the data. Here, "Acquired Data 1" represents the data for Meter 1 out of the data for "Meters 1-10," or the data for "(Manual Input)." "Acquired Data 2" represents the data for Meter 2 out of the data for "Meters 1-10." Although omitted in this diagram, data for Meters 3-10 is also acquired in each row as Acquired Data 3-10. Furthermore, when comparing the "Receiving Date and Time" and "Acquisition Source," the data acquired from "Meters 1-10" and "(Manual Input)" is all received approximately every hour, and the "Acquisition Interval" for both is 10 minutes. Therefore, "Acquired Data 1" is shown as an array of data acquired every 10 minutes in the hour immediately preceding the receiving date and time. For example, the acquired data 1 [13, 15, 14, 16, 18, 10] of "Meters 1 to 10" with the reception date and time of "2023-04-01 14:01:12" indicates that the data acquired on Meter 1 every 10 minutes from 13:00 on April 1, 2023 (i.e., 6 frames at 13:00, 13:10, 13:20, 13:30, 13:40, and 13:50) are 13, 15, 14, 16, 18, and 10, respectively. Note that the unit of each data is not shown in this figure, but the unit of data acquired by various measuring instruments, etc. may be added to each data and transmitted and received, or if the unit of the data to be transmitted and received is predetermined, only the numerical value may be transmitted and received as described above, and the unit may be supplemented by the receiving side.

[0031] Returning to FIG. 3, the designation receiving unit 112 receives a designation of the period of the first data and the second data to be displayed (S102).

[0032] The operation of the designation receiving unit 112 will now be described with reference to Fig. 6. Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a designation receiving screen according to this embodiment. This screen may be displayed on a display device connected to the management device 100, or may be displayed on a display device of the terminal 200 connected to the management device 100 via the network 50. The designation receiving unit 112 may then receive the designation input through this screen.

[0033] 6, the designation receiving unit 112 receives the display period for displaying the first data and the second data by designating a "start date" and an "end date." In FIG. 6, since both the start date and the end date are designated as "April 1, 2023," the designation receiving unit 112 accepts the display period as April 1, 2023 (display of one day's worth of data).

[0034] In addition, other items accepted by the designation accepting unit 112 are also shown in FIG. 6. "Counting method" indicates the designation of the counting method of data displayed at the same time interval in the display period. For example, when "total" is designated, data displayed at the same time interval in the display period is shown as a total value. In addition, when "average" is designated, data displayed at the same time interval in the display period is shown as an average value. Similarly, statistical methods such as median, mode, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, and variance may be designated as the counting method. In addition, "factory", "product", and "process" indicate the designation of the factory, product, and process for displaying the first data and the second data. For example, FIG. 6 indicates that process F of product P of factory K is designated. In addition, in FIG. 6, one factory, one product, and one process are designated, but multiple factories, products, and processes may be designated. The factory may be represented as a facility, and may operate on any working day in a month, and may produce different products or a single product on each working day. The product may be any product, such as daily necessities, electrical appliances, chemical products, industrial products, vehicles, and food. The process may include processing, assembly, firing, sorting, packaging, etc., and in the fields of chemical and biotechnology, may include production, reaction, separation, seeding, culturing, storage, etc.

[0035] 6, the designation receiving unit 112 may also receive designations of other items. For example, the "organization" that owns the above-mentioned factory, etc. (including a company or group, each company or group may include group companies, affiliated companies, etc., and groups may include public groups (government, ministries, local governments, etc.) or private groups, and the relationships between organizations that make up the supply chain may be supplier and buyer, Tier 0, Tier 1, Tier 2, etc.), "base" (for example, a unit when multiple divisions are made within one factory, or a location unit such as a supply point or a receiving point for electricity), "production line" (for example, a unit that groups together common processes), "process division" (production process, auxiliary process, preparation process, etc.), "activity division" (division directly related to production, division indirectly related to production, etc.), etc. The following specifications may be accepted: "category of data to be used for production, etc.," "product allocation" (e.g. allocation of which product each process, manufacturing line, etc. was used to produce), "product status" (e.g. good product, defective product, test product, etc.), "operation status" (e.g. operation (including test operation, production operation, etc.), suspension, stop (including temporary stop, planned stop, etc.), preparation, setup, cooling, maintenance, replacement, etc.), "data quality" (primary data, secondary data, directly measured data, calculated data, data unique to an calculator or item, etc., alternative data, etc.), "cutoff" (whether to exclude inputs and outputs below a certain percentage of the acquired data from the tabulation, etc.), and "first time interval" and "second time interval" as described in FIG. 7, etc.

[0036] The display control unit 114 may control the display according to each of the above-mentioned specifications. Here, the display control unit 114 may control the display of quantitative data to show quantitative relationships using various pictorial graphs, bar graphs, histograms, line graphs, curve graphs, box and whisker plots, scatter plots, radar charts, etc., and may control the display of qualitative data to show qualitative relationships using various pie charts, bar graphs, etc. Furthermore, the display control unit 114 may control the display of each data using a specified graph, regardless of whether the data is quantitative or qualitative. As an example, in response to the specification of the above-mentioned "product state", the display control unit 114 may control the display of the ratio of the "product state" received as the first data or the third data in a predetermined period as a yield rate in a stacked bar graph in a first time interval, or the ratio of the product state in a pie chart.

[0037] Returning to FIG. 3, the display control unit 114 performs control to display the first data in a specified period at a first time interval, and the second data at a second time interval (S104).

[0038] Here, an example of display control by the display control unit 114 will be described with reference to Figs. 7 to 10. Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to this embodiment. This screen may be displayed on a display device connected to the management device 100, or may be displayed on a display device of the terminal 200 connected to the management device 100 via the network 50. The display control unit 114 controls the display device to display the data stored in the storage unit 130. In addition, of the two graphs, the upper graph 702 shows a graph of the first data, and the lower graph 704 shows a graph of the second data. In Fig. 7, the values ​​of the first data and the second data are shown in a histogram, but this is not limited to this. In this embodiment, the first data and the second data may be shown in other graphs showing a quantitative relationship or a qualitative relationship, or both, or may be shown as in the table shown in Fig. 5, or each value may be shown in another comparable form. In Fig. 7, the first data and the second data are displayed in a form that allows comparison by arranging them vertically, but this is not limited to this. In this embodiment, the first data and the second data may be displayed in other comparable forms such as within the same display, left and right, front and back, time change, etc. The same applies to Figs. 8 to 10 below.

[0039] In FIG. 7, the first time interval of the first data and the second time interval of the second data are both set to one hour. The numbers written under the horizontal axis of each graph in FIG. 7 represent time, with "0" representing midnight, "1" representing 1 o'clock, ... and "23" representing 11 o'clock ("..." indicates that there are other similar times / cases, etc., as below). The data (values) of each graph are shown in a histogram, and for example, a histogram between 0 and 1 indicates the value of the data between 0 and 1 o'clock (the height is the direct value of each data, and the area is the total value of each data at each time interval, etc.). Although not shown, the period specified in FIG. 7 may be one day or multiple days. When the specified period is one day, each piece of data between 0 and 1 o'clock, 1 and 2 o'clock, ... and 23 and 24 o'clock (0 o'clock) indicates the value of the data acquired for that one day. On the other hand, if the specified period consists of multiple days, each piece of data between 0:00 to 1:00, 1:00 to 2:00, ... 23:00 to 24:00 (0:00) may represent a value processed by a statistical method such as the sum, average, median, mode, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, variance, etc. of the values ​​of the data obtained for the multiple days.

[0040] In FIG. 7, the first time interval of the first data and the second time interval of the second data are both set to one hour, but in this embodiment the first time interval and the second time interval are not limited to this. For example, the first time interval and the second time interval may be 0.X seconds (decimals are arbitrary, and any decimal points below include arbitrary decimal points), ...1 second, ...2 seconds, ...3 seconds, ...4 seconds, ...5 seconds, ...6 seconds, ...10 seconds, ...30 seconds, ...1 minute, ...2 minutes, ...3 minutes, ...4 minutes, ...5 minutes, ...6 minutes, ...10 minutes, ...20 minutes, ...30 minutes, ...40 minutes, ...50 minutes, ...1 hour, ...2 hours, ...3 hours, ...4 hours, ...5 hours, ...6 hours, ...8 hours, ...10 hours, ...12 hours, ...24 hours, ...2 days, ...3 days, ...4 days, ...5 days, ...6 days, ...7 days, ...10 days, ...20 days, ...30 days, ...1 month, ...2 months, ...1 year, ...2 years, or other time intervals. 7, the first time interval of the first data and the second time interval of the second data are set to the same time interval, but may be set to different time intervals as shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9. Although not shown, the first time interval and the second time interval may be set by a direct operation on the management device 100, or may be set by the designation receiving unit 112 receiving designation of each time interval from the designation receiving screen shown in Fig. 6 or the like.

[0041] As shown in FIG. 7, the display control unit 114 can perform control to display the relationship between the two data with good visibility using a histogram of the first data by the first time interval, which is the upper graph 702, and a histogram of the second data by the second time interval, which is the lower graph 704. This makes it possible to check whether the first data has a value between 1:00 and 7:00, when there is no value of the second data, and whether there is any waste in the value indicated by the first data during this period. In addition, for example, the first data has a peak between 16:00 and 17:00, while the second data has no peak before or after this period, it is possible to check whether the value indicated by either the first data or the second data includes an abnormal value during this period. Note that, as described later, the control unit may further include an identification unit (not shown), and the identification unit may identify the first data during the period when there is no value of the second data, or the first data at the peak, or the time interval of these first data (and second data) according to a predetermined flow or a user operation.

[0042] FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of display of the first data, the second data, the first time interval, and the second time interval according to this embodiment. In FIG. 8(a), the first time interval and the second time interval are the same, and the first data and the second data are each shown as a histogram of a single value. This allows the relationship between the first data and the second data to be confirmed with good visibility by the same first time interval and second time interval. On the other hand, in FIG. 8(b), the first time interval is set to 1 / 2 the second time interval. This allows the first data to be confirmed at a finer granularity relative to the second data. Also, in FIG. 8(c), the first time interval is set to twice the second time interval. This allows the first data to be confirmed at a larger granularity relative to the second data. Note that, although 1 / 2 and 2 times are used as examples for FIG. 8(b) and FIG. 8(c), the magnification is not limited to these in this embodiment. For example, any magnification such as 1 / 3, 1 / 4, ..., 3 times, 4 times, ..., etc. may be set.

[0043] FIG. 8(d) shows an example in which the first time interval and the second time interval are the same but have different starting points (and end points). For example, if the first time interval and the second time interval are both 10 minutes, the first data may start at 00:00, 00:10, ..., while the second data may start at 00:05, 00:15, .... Note that, although an example in which the first time interval and the second time interval are the same is shown in FIG. 8(d), they may be different time intervals. If the acquisition times and time intervals of the first data and the second data are different, the display control unit 114 can control the display of both data at their respective acquisition times and time intervals.

[0044] FIG. 9 is a diagram showing another example of display of the first data, the second data, the first time interval, and the second time interval according to the present embodiment. FIG. 9(e) shows the first data and the second data in one graph. For example, FIG. 9(e) may show a value obtained by dividing the value of the first data by the value of the second data (the value of the first data per unit of the value of the second data). Also, FIG. 9(e) may show a value obtained by adding, subtracting, or multiplying the value of the first data and the value of the second data, or a value processed by a statistical method such as the average, median, mode, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, or variance, or a combination of these. The first time interval and the second time interval may be the same or different. When the first time interval and the second time interval are different, they may be set based on either the first time interval or the second time interval. For example, if the first time interval is 10 minutes and the second time interval is 5 minutes, and the time interval in Fig. 9(e) is set to 10 minutes, the ratio of the second data to the first data may be displayed on a graph by calculating the ratio of the total value of the two time intervals (5 minutes x 2 = 10 minutes) of the second data to one time interval (10 minutes) of the first data. This makes it easier to understand the relationship between the first data and the second data.

[0045] FIG. 9(f) is an example in which the first time interval of the first data is set at a very short time or point. The first data is shown as a curve, but in other examples, it may be shown in other forms such as a line. Here, it is assumed that the first data in FIG. 9(f) is processed to show the acquired value of the first data as a continuous value (for example, a relational expression is calculated and a graph is drawn as a function, etc.), but the first data may be shown as a discrete value (dot plot) rather than a continuous value. In this case, the value of the first data is shown only for the time of the acquired first data. Also, in FIG. 9(f), only the first time interval of the first data is set at a very short time or point, but only the second time interval of the second data, or both the first time interval of the first data and the second time interval of the second data may be set in the same way. This makes it possible to visually confirm the relationship between the first data and the second data in consideration of the continuity or discreteness of the data.

[0046] Fig. 9(g) is an example in which the first data includes two different types of values. For example, the acquired data 1 and the acquired data 2 shown in Fig. 5 may be displayed overlapping each other at the same first time interval. Fig. 9(g) is an example in which only the first data includes two different types of values, but as shown in Fig. 9(h), the second data may also include two different types of values. In addition, the number of different types of data is not limited to two, and for example, ten types of data may be displayed at the same time interval, such as meters 1 to 10 shown in Fig. 5, or any other number of types of data may be displayed.

[0047] FIG. 10 is a diagram showing another example of the display screen according to the present embodiment. Here, the communication unit 120 may receive data (third data) related to the production equipment, and the display control unit 114 may perform control to display the third data so as to be comparable to the first data and the second data. The third data may include data of items received by the designation receiving unit 112 described above in relation to FIG. 6. The third data may include, for example, the organization, factory, base, manufacturing line, and activity category to which the production equipment belongs, the contents of the products to be produced, product allocation, product status, data quality, the process to be used, cutoff, operation status, first time interval, and second time interval. For example, the communication unit 120 may receive the third data including the operation status of the production equipment, and the display control unit 114 may perform control to display the proportion of the operation status of the equipment in the period. FIG. 10 includes a pie chart 1002 showing the proportion of the operation status of the equipment in the specified period. As shown in FIG. 10, the equipment is mostly in operation during the period of the upper graph 702 showing the first data and the lower graph 704 showing the second data, but about 2 / 3 is out of operation. The display control unit 114 may perform various display controls for the third data. For example, as described above, the display control may be performed for quantitative data to show quantitative relationships using various pictorial graphs, bar graphs, histograms, line graphs, curve graphs, box and whisker plots, scatter plots, radar charts, etc., and the display control may be performed for qualitative data to show qualitative relationships using various pie charts, band graphs, etc. The display control unit 114 may also perform display control for each data using a designated graph, regardless of whether the data is quantitative or qualitative. In this way, according to this embodiment, the first data and the second data for a designated period and the relationship with the production equipment can be confirmed with good visibility.

[0048] In addition to the above-described embodiment, the present invention can be realized in the following multiple other embodiments.

[0049] As another embodiment, the derivation unit 116 may derive the secondary output data by multiplying at least one of the usage amounts of electricity, water, oil, and gas included in the first data by the conversion data stored in the storage unit 130. For example, when deriving greenhouse gas emissions as secondary output data, the greenhouse gas emissions may be derived by multiplying each usage amount of the first data by a basic unit (conversion data) indicating the greenhouse gas emissions per unit of each usage amount. Furthermore, when deriving the waste amount as secondary output data, the waste amount may be derived by multiplying each usage amount of the first data by a basic unit (conversion data) indicating the waste amount per unit of each usage amount. Furthermore, when deriving the by-product amount as secondary output data, the by-product amount may be derived by multiplying each usage amount of the first data by a basic unit indicating the waste amount per unit of each usage amount. In addition, the derivation unit 116 may derive the amount of each secondary output data by using a basic unit indicating the amount per unit of each usage amount for each secondary output as conversion data, such as the amount of substance such as CO2, SO2, NOx, BOD, COD, etc., air pollution, indoor air pollution, harmful chemicals, ozone layer depletion, acidification, noise, global warming, photochemical oxidants, eutrophication, resource consumption, ecotoxicity, fuel consumption, land use, and other impact areas, human health based on damage assessment, social estimates, biodiversity, primary production, and other protected targets.

[0050] The above secondary inputs may include the consumption of fuels for the operation of the equipment. Fuels may include solid fuels (coking coal, steam coal, anthracite, coke, petroleum coke, briquettes or charcoal briquettes, wood, charcoal, and other solid fuels), liquid fuels (coal tar, petroleum asphalt, condensate, crude oil (excluding condensate (NGL)), gasoline, naphtha, jet fuel oil, kerosene, diesel, heavy oil A, heavy oil B and C, lubricating oil, and other liquid fuels), and gaseous fuels (liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), petroleum hydrocarbon gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural gas (excluding liquefied natural gas (LNG)), coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, converter gas, city gas, and other gaseous fuels). Activities carried out in relation to the manufacture of products may be activities that consume at least one of heat and steam.

[0051] The data managed by the management device 100 may include at least one of greenhouse gas emissions related to production, human rights measures, and disaster risk measures. The human rights measures may indicate whether or not measures are being taken to prevent child labor in the manufacture of products (including all processes related to the manufacture of products, such as not only the assembly of the product itself, but also the assembly of parts that make up the product, and the processing of materials (including raw materials, etc.) that make up each part). The disaster risk measures may indicate whether or not measures are being taken to prevent the manufacture of products from being affected in the event of a disaster. The data managed by the management device 100 may include anything else that the company wishes to request from its affiliated companies to input, in addition to the above. For example, data may include various types of damage calculation-type environmental impact assessments, product carbon footprints related to climate change for the environment, biodiversity, land use, and raw material procurement for natural resources, hazardous materials, waste management, packaging materials, and waste such as home appliances for waste disposal, chemical substances contained in the environment, air pollutants, water quality, and soil pollution for environmentally regulated substances, and other data on technology, energy, noise, vibration, and odors for the environment. In addition, regarding society, data on human resources such as human rights (child labor, forced labor, working hours, wages, labor rights, discrimination, etc.), labor management and health and safety, human capital, safety and quality of products and services, safety of each substance, privacy and data security, relations with the local community, diversity, equity and inclusion, well-being and engagement, compliance and ethics, and other data on society may be included. In addition, regarding governance, data on ethics and compliance with laws and regulations regarding corporate behavior, anti-corruption, risk management, disaster prevention, tax transparency, and other data on governance may be included. In addition, data on due diligence for each of the above items may be included.

[0052] As another embodiment, the first data may include at least one of the usage amounts of electricity, water, oil, and gas, the second data may include the production amount of the product, and the first time interval and the second time interval may be 10 minutes. The designation receiving unit 112 may receive a display period, and the display control unit 114 may control the display of the first data and the second data received by the communication unit 120 during the display period. The communication unit 120 may receive third data including the operating status of the equipment related to the first data and the second data. The designation receiving unit 112 may receive designation of at least one of the target factory, product, process, tallying method, and type of first data, and the display control unit 114 may control the display of the first data and the second data according to at least one of the designated factory, product, process, tallying method, and type of first data. The management device according to claim 1. For example, the specification receiving unit 112 may receive specifications of K2 factory, P2 product, F2 process, total as the tallying method, and electricity as the type of first data, and the display control unit 114 may perform control to display the values ​​of the specified factory, product, process, tallying method, and first data type. This allows the relationship between the production deliverable and the production materials used in the production to be confirmed at a fine granularity and within a specified arbitrary range every 10 minutes. In addition, the quantitative trends of the production deliverable and the production materials and the operating status of the equipment can be confirmed with good visibility.

[0053] The display control unit 114 may perform control to display the sub-output data derived by the derivation unit 116 as first data at a first time interval. For example, the derivation unit 116 may derive greenhouse gas emissions from the amounts of electricity, oil, and gas used, and the display control unit 114 may perform control to display the sum of these greenhouse gas emissions as the first data at a first time interval. In addition, if the communication unit 120 has received greenhouse gas emissions in the same process as the first data, the display control unit 114 may perform control to display the sum of the received greenhouse gas emissions and the greenhouse gas emissions derived by the derivation unit 116 as the first data at a first time interval. In addition, the display control unit 114 may control the display of the secondary output data derived by the derivation unit 116 using the conversion data as "secondary data", and the secondary output data received by the communication unit 120 as "primary data" (or, if the secondary output data includes information on data quality and the information is identified as "primary data" or "secondary data", the identified data).

[0054] As another embodiment, the management device 100 may include an identification unit (not shown) and a response instruction unit (not shown). The identification unit identifies some data based on a predetermined flow or a user operation for the display by the display control unit 114 or the derivation result by the derivation unit 116. The response instruction unit transmits a signal to instruct various systems, devices, equipment, etc. to respond to the identification by the identification unit based on a predetermined flow or a user operation. For example, in FIG. 7, the upper graph shows the amount of electricity used as the first data in a specified period, and the lower graph shows the amount of product production as the second data. The identification unit is predetermined to identify the time interval in which the amount of electricity used is the highest in the first data. The response instruction unit is predetermined to suppress the use of other equipment such as air conditioners from the next period for the time interval identified by the identification unit (for example, the set temperature of the air conditioner is set close to the outside temperature to suppress the amount of electricity used). In this case, the response instruction unit may instruct the control devices of the other devices to suppress the use of the other devices during the next period from 16:00 to 17:00, which is the time interval in which electricity usage is highest in FIG.

[0055] As another example, the response instruction unit may instruct other control devices, etc., to use electricity derived from renewable energy (e.g., hydroelectric, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc.) stored for the production of products during the time interval in which the production volume is the highest in the second data. A storage battery of a storage device, an electric vehicle, etc. may be used for storing electricity. Similarly, the response instruction unit may instruct other control devices (distribution board, control board), etc., to use the power supplied from the solar power generation device for the specified equipment. The solar power generation device connects the power generated by the solar power generation module (solar panel, perovskite solar cell, etc.) to the power system of the power company via an inverter, and supplies the power generated by the solar power generation module to the equipment with priority. The response instruction unit may instruct other control devices, etc., to operate the equipment by receiving a supply (purchased power) from the power system side to cover the power shortage that could not be covered by the power generated by the solar power generation module alone, or to supply the surplus power to the power system for reverse power flow or to power consumers (sold power). In addition, the response instruction unit may issue instructions to other devices, etc., such as reporting abnormalities, recommending reduction actions (replacing old equipment with the latest models, energy saving activities, introduction of renewable energy, energy management, demand response, electricity trading, etc.) and reverse auctions in selecting vendors, giving rewards to users for actions during specific time periods (for example, power saving, energy saving, using public transportation instead of private cars, etc.), reserving the purchase of environmental value or credits, etc. by investing in businesses that purchase and create environmental value or credits, etc., and displaying the difference between a target and the current situation.

[0056] As another embodiment, the derivation unit 116 may derive the value of the first data per unit of the second data. For example, in FIG. 7, the upper graph shows the usage amount of the production material as the first data in a certain specified period, the lower graph shows the production amount of the production result as the second data, and the first time interval and the second time interval are both set to the time interval required for the production of one production result. In this case, the usage amount of the production material used in one time interval of the first data represents the usage amount used for the production of the production result of the second data in the time interval following the said time interval. Therefore, for example, FIG. 9(e) may show a value obtained by dividing the production amount by the usage amount for the first time interval of the use of the production material corresponding to the second time interval of the production of the production result (i.e., the first time interval one time before the second time interval). As described above, the derivation unit 116 can derive the value of the first data per unit of the second data by dividing the value of the first data in one of the first time intervals by the value of the second data in the second time interval that is the next time interval to the first time interval. This makes it possible to visually display, for example, the carbon footprint (amount of greenhouse gas emissions among the secondary output data) per production result.

[0057] In the above description, the first data and the second data are mainly quantitative data, and the third data is mainly qualitative data, but each data may include both quantity and quality. In addition, the quantitative data may be a physical quantity such as weight, mass, density, specific weight, work, length, distance, time, area, volume, angle, angular velocity, acceleration, moment, stress, pressure, energy, power, current, heat, temperature, luminous intensity, economic value such as a circle, or other units, and each unit may be an artificially defined unit such as a functional unit or a declared unit. In the case of a functional unit, it may be defined as a quantified performance or degree of utility regarding the provision of the intended function of the product. In the case of a declared unit, it may be defined as the number or amount of products required to realize a specified function. In addition, the qualitative data may include the operating state of the equipment, as well as the performance such as the useful life, manufacturer, rated power, years of use, thermal efficiency, continuous operation time, and insulation of the equipment.

[0058] As another embodiment, the management device 100 may include an estimation unit (not shown). In the present embodiment, the display control unit 114 and the derivation unit 116 perform calculation processing such as display control or conversion of data stored in the storage unit 130. On the other hand, the estimation unit may perform various estimations based on the data. For example, the estimation unit may perform statistical processing such as regression analysis on the data stored in the storage unit 130 to perform data interpolation, prediction, etc. In addition, the estimation unit may perform machine learning (deep learning, reinforcement learning, etc.) based on the data stored in the storage unit 130 to perform various estimations, classifications, predictions, etc. A learning model may be stored in the storage unit 130, and the learning model may be a learning model generated by machine learning using each data as teacher data. For example, the prediction of power demand may be realized by a learning model generated based on information such as weather, temperature, power plant outage information, power supply reserve margin, available interconnection capacity, forward curves (including those related to electricity, coal, crude oil, and LNG), coal import prices, crude oil import prices, LNG import prices, and past fluctuations in electricity trading prices in the electricity spot market, or by a statistical method based on such information. For classification, the machine learning model or algorithm solves classification problems and may include, for example, logistic regression (including ridge regularization and lasso regularization), random forest, support vector machine, neural network (including multilayer perceptron), etc. The accuracy of these classification predictions may be evaluated by one or more of the mean square error of the estimated conditional probability, the AUC (Area Under the Curve) quantified as the area under the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve, the logarithmic loss in the minimization problem of the Kullback-Leibler divergence, and a calibration plot that plots actual values ​​and predicted values. Here, the accuracy of classification prediction of a machine learning algorithm or model varies depending on the number of training data and feature amounts (for example, the number of days for which the power consumption data used for learning was acquired and the attribute information to be added), etc.Therefore, the selection of the learning model may be performed by comparing the evaluation results of the classification accuracy of each machine learning algorithm or model under predetermined conditions. In addition, in selecting the learning model, a model with a low computational cost required for learning and classification may be prioritized. As described above, the estimation unit allows the management device to perform display control, identification, derivation, response instructions, etc. by prediction, classification, etc. for related data other than the data received by the communication unit.

[0059] Although the present invention has been described above using the embodiments, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiments. It is clear to those skilled in the art that various modifications and improvements can be made to the above embodiments. It is clear from the description of the claims that such modifications and improvements can also be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

[0060] It should be noted that the order of execution of each process, such as operations, procedures, steps, and stages, in the devices, systems, programs, and methods shown in the claims, specifications, and drawings is not specifically stated as "before," "prior to," etc., and may be realized in any order unless the output of a previous process is used in a later process. Even if the operational flow in the claims, specifications, and drawings is explained using "first," "next," etc. for convenience, it does not mean that it is essential to perform the process in this order.

[0061] Also, aspects of each embodiment may be embodied in whole or in part by a computer. As an example of the computer, a program installed on the computer may cause the computer to perform operations associated with an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention or one or more "parts" of the apparatus. Alternatively, the program may cause the computer to execute the operations or one or more "parts". The program may cause the computer to execute a process or steps of the process according to an embodiment of the present invention. Such a program may be executed by a CPU to cause the computer to execute specific operations associated with some or all of the blocks of the flowcharts and block diagrams described herein. [Explanation of symbols]

[0062] 10 Management Systems 50 Network 100 Management device 110 Control section 112 Designated Reception Department 114 Display control unit 116 Derivation part 120 Communications Department 130 Storage section 200 terminals 300 Transmitting device 702 Graph showing first data 704 Graph showing the second data 1002 Graph showing the third data

Claims

1. A management device including a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit, The communication unit receives first data including at least one of main input data including an input amount of a production object, secondary input data including an amount of a production object used, and secondary output data including an amount of a production by-product generated, and second data including main output data including an amount of a production result; the first data and the second data are stored in the storage unit; The control unit includes a designation receiving unit and a display control unit, the designation receiving unit receives a designation of a period of the first data and the second data to be displayed; the display control unit controls displaying the first data in the period at a first time interval and the second data in the period at a second time interval. The management device.

2. The control unit further includes a lead-out unit. The derivation unit converts the usage amount of the sub input data included in the first data into a generation amount of sub output data using conversion data stored in the storage unit, and adds the converted amount to the generation amount of the sub output data included in the first data; The display control unit performs control to display the summed generation amount at the first time interval. The management device according to claim 1 .

3. The communication unit receives third data related to the production equipment, The display control unit controls displaying the third data so as to be comparable with the first data and the second data. The management device according to claim 1 .

4. The first data includes usage of at least one of electricity, water, oil, and gas, and the second data includes production of a product; The first time interval and the second time interval are both 10 minutes. The management device according to claim 1 .

5. the designation receiving unit receives designation of at least one of a target factory, a product, a process, a counting method, and a type of first data; the display control unit controls display of the first data and the second data in accordance with at least one of a specified factory, a specified product, a specified process, a specified tabulation method, and a specified type of the first data; The management device according to claim 1 .

6. The control unit further includes a determination unit and a response instruction unit, The identification unit identifies a portion of data based on a predetermined flow or a user operation with respect to the display by the display control unit or the derivation result by the derivation unit; The response instruction unit transmits a signal instructing the identification unit to respond to the identification based on a predetermined flow or a user operation. The management device according to claim 2 .

7. A step in which a computer receives first data including at least one of primary input data including an input amount of a production object, secondary input data including an amount of a production object used, and secondary output data including an amount of a production by-product generated, and second data including primary output data including an amount of a production output; storing the first data and the second data in a storage unit; receiving a designation of a period of the first data and the second data to be displayed; controlling the display of the first data at a first time interval and the second data at a second time interval during the period; A management method comprising:

8. On the computer, A management program for executing the management method according to claim 7.

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