Information Processing Apparatus for Design Change Policy Feedback

Solution Overview

Problem

Design changes in product development often lead to adverse effects on production, such as diminished productivity or deteriorated product quality, due to the lack of consideration for prerequisites, constraints, or know-how during the design phase, especially when transitioning from design to production.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that acquires and identifies design drawing information, associates it with basic policy information representing design and production guidelines, and outputs relevant policy information when a design change is made, enabling evaluation of the change's impact on production processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If design changes are made during product development, then product design flexibility is improved, but production stability deteriorates due to lack of consideration for prerequisites and constraints

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidproduction stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring and storing basic policy information (prerequisites, constraints, know-how) associated with design drawings before design changes are made. When a design change is detected, the system proactively identifies the changed portions and retrieves relevant basic policy information in advance, allowing designers to evaluate potential production impacts before finalizing design decisions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by detecting design changes in drawing information and automatically providing relevant basic policy information back to designers. This feedback loop enables designers to understand how their design decisions affect production processes, allowing them to adjust designs to maintain production stability while still achieving design flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If design changes are made without considering production constraints, then design innovation is improved, but product quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign innovationVSAvoidproduct quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring and storing basic policy information (prerequisites, constraints, know-how) associated with design drawings before design changes are made. When a design change is detected, the system proactively identifies the changed portions and retrieves relevant basic policy information in advance, allowing designers to evaluate potential production impacts before finalizing design decisions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by detecting design changes in drawing information and automatically providing relevant basic policy information back to designers. This feedback loop enables designers to understand how their design decisions affect production processes, allowing them to adjust designs to maintain production stability while still achieving design flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Speed

If design changes are made without production knowledge, then design speed is improved, but productivity diminishes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign speedVSAvoidproduction productivity

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically detecting design changes in drawing information and autonomously identifying and retrieving relevant basic policy information without requiring designers to manually search for production constraints. This automated process maintains fast design speed while ensuring designers receive necessary production knowledge to avoid future productivity issues.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by detecting design changes in drawing information and automatically providing relevant basic policy information back to designers. This feedback loop enables designers to understand how their design decisions affect production processes, allowing them to adjust designs to maintain production stability while still achieving design flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10936763B2Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

Publication Date: 2021.03.02 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a first drawing information acquiring unit that acquires first drawing information used for design, a second drawing information identifying unit that identifies second drawing information associated with the first drawing information, a basic policy information acquiring unit that acquires basic policy information associated with the second drawing information, the basic policy information representing a basic policy for at least one of design and production, and an output unit that, in response to acquisition of information instructing that a design change be made to the first drawing information, outputs a basic policy corresponding to the design change from the basic policy information.