Color-Coded Work Instruction Sheets for Parent-Child Job Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems struggle to accurately manage jobs divided into multiple work processes, particularly in managing the storage locations and progress of parent and child jobs, especially when the number of products or parts produced increases, leading to difficulties in tracking and integrating the production of final products.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that utilizes work instruction sheets with color-coded borders and labels to identify and manage parent and child jobs, using cameras to capture and track the progress of these jobs through various processes, enabling precise location and status updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a barcode printed on a work instruction sheet is used to manage job progress, then the job progress can be tracked, but when the job is divided into multiple child jobs, it becomes difficult to accurately manage both parent and child jobs and their storage locations
Solution Approach 1:
The work instruction sheet is segmented into multiple child work instruction sheets, each associated with a specific child job. Each sheet contains a barcode that can be independently scanned to track the progress of individual child jobs while maintaining linkage to the parent job through the work process management system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a nested structure where child jobs are contained within the parent job framework. The work process management system stores hierarchical relationships between parent and child jobs, allowing comprehensive tracking of both levels simultaneously through a unified management interface.
2Productivity
If the number of products or parts produced in a given work process is increased, then production capacity is improved, but it becomes difficult to manage storage locations and track progress of multiple parent and child jobs
Solution Approach 1:
The work instruction sheets automatically generate and update their own status information through barcode scanning at various work processes. The system self-updates the progress of parent and child jobs, storage locations, and production quantities without requiring manual intervention, thereby maintaining accurate information even as production volume increases.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback mechanisms where barcode scanners at each work process automatically update the management information. The work process management system receives real-time data on job progress, storage locations, and production quantities, enabling dynamic tracking and coordination of multiple jobs simultaneously.
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AI summary
An information processing system includes a generation unit that generates image data of a first form including a predetermined area having a predetermined color associated with one or more parts constituting a final product of a job and generates image data of one or more second forms that inherit the predetermined color of the predetermined area from the first form; an instruction unit that instructs printing of the first form and the one or more second forms using the image data of the first form and the one or more second forms; a printing unit that prints the first form and the one or more second forms; and a management unit that manages the job identified by the first form and the one or more second forms by using the predetermined color of the predetermined area of the first form and the one or more second forms.