Inspection Level Setting System for Aligning Device Criteria with User Determination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Inspection devices often incorrectly classify output materials as either good or defective due to overly strict or loose inspection levels, leading to mismatches between user determination and device assessment.

Innovation Solution

An inspection level setting system that adjusts the inspection level based on user input, where the management server displays inspection results and receives user determination, changing the inspection level to align with the user's criterion when there is a mismatch, thereby refining the determination criterion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the inspection level is set strictly, then the inspection device can identify more defective products, but it incorrectly classifies good products as defective

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedefective product identification accuracyVSAvoidgood product classification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system displays inspection results to the user and receives feedback on whether each inspected output material is actually good or defective. This feedback is used to iteratively adjust the inspection level, creating a closed-loop system that learns from user corrections to improve classification accuracy over time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The inspection level is treated as an adjustable parameter that can be dynamically changed based on user feedback. The system modifies the inspection level parameter to bring it closer to the user's determination criterion, resolving the contradiction between strict and loose inspection by making the parameter adaptive rather than fixed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If the inspection level is set loosely, then the inspection device accepts more good products, but it incorrectly classifies defective products as good

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegood product acceptance accuracyVSAvoiddefective product rejection accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system receives user feedback on misclassified defective products and uses this information to adjust the inspection level. When users correct misclassifications, the system learns to tighten the inspection criteria appropriately, maintaining high good product acceptance while improving defective product rejection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The inspection level is made dynamic rather than static. The system adapts the inspection level based on accumulated user feedback, allowing it to respond to the specific characteristics of different output materials and user requirements, thereby resolving the contradiction between acceptance and rejection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If the inspection level is fixed, then the device operation is simple, but it cannot adapt to user determination criteria

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice operation simplicityVSAvoiduser criterion adaptation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-adjustment of the inspection level based on user feedback without requiring manual reconfiguration. The automatic adjustment mechanism allows the device to adapt to user criteria while maintaining operational simplicity, as users only need to provide feedback rather than manually tune parameters.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system prepares for adaptation by collecting and processing user feedback in advance. By accumulating feedback data and performing preliminary analysis, the system can make informed adjustments to the inspection level, balancing operational simplicity with adaptability to user criteria.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240357043A1Inspection level setting system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and inspection level setting method

Publication Date: 2024.10.24 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An inspection level setting system includes a processor configured to display an inspection result of inspecting whether an output material output from an output apparatus is a good product in an inspection device in which an inspection level serving as a reference for determining whether the output material is the good product is set, receive, from a user, an input of a determination result as to whether the output material inspected by the inspection device is the good product, and change, in a case where the inspection result by the inspection device does not match the determination result of the user, the inspection level set in the inspection device to be brought close to a determination criterion of the user.