Component Accommodating Body Management for Storage Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing component supply systems lack efficient management of component accommodating bodies, particularly in ensuring the right number and type of components are stored and prepared for mounting boards, leading to inefficiencies in space utilization and production processes.

Innovation Solution

A component accommodating body managing apparatus that includes a preparation component extractor, management storage, and a storage instructing unit to generate and transmit instructions for the component accommodating body storeroom, ensuring the correct number and type of components are stored and prepared, utilizing integration and splitting processes to optimize storage and retrieval.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If component accommodating bodies are stored without systematic management, then storage space is occupied, but component availability and production efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidmanagement system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts preparation component information from production planning information in advance, determining component types and quantities needed before actual production. This preliminary action allows the storeroom to prepare and store the correct components beforehand, ensuring high production efficiency without requiring complex real-time management operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The management storage stores and tracks component information, comparing prepared components against actual production needs. This feedback mechanism ensures that the right components are available in the right quantities, improving productivity while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated tracking and verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Area of stationary object

If multiple component accommodating bodies are stored randomly, then storage capacity is utilized, but space utilization efficiency and retrieval efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestorage space utilizationVSAvoidretrieval time

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system assigns specific storage locations to component accommodating bodies based on their component types and preparation requirements. Each storage location has specialized characteristics optimized for its designated components, enabling efficient retrieval while maximizing space utilization. The storeroom controller manages this localized organization systematically.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

Component accommodating bodies are stored in predetermined locations based on advance extraction of preparation information. This preliminary placement action eliminates the need for random searching during retrieval, reducing time loss while maintaining high storage capacity utilization through systematic pre-organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If component storage is not optimized according to production plans, then storage operations are simple, but component availability and production readiness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomponent availabilityVSAvoidstorage management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary extraction of component types and quantities from production planning information, then uses this data to guide storage operations. The storeroom controller automatically manages component placement based on these pre-determined requirements, ensuring high component availability while keeping management complexity manageable through automated decision-making algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The management storage and storeroom controller work together in a self-service manner, automatically tracking component information and generating storage instructions without requiring complex external intervention. This self-managing system ensures reliable component availability while maintaining operational simplicity through automated processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10373643B2Component accommodating body managing apparatus, component accommodating body storeroom, and component storage instructing method

Publication Date: 2019.08.06 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

AI summary

A component accommodating body managing apparatus includes a preparation component extractor, a management storage, and a storage instructing unit. The storage instructing unit generates and transmits storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components, which is extracted by the preparation component extractor, and the accommodating number of components, which is stored in the management storage. Further, the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that the accommodating number of components in the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth satisfies the preparing number of components.