Manufacturing Process Timeline Display with Facility Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods struggle to effectively visualize the influence of manufacturing routes on productivity in manufacturing systems where multiple facilities are involved in a single process, leading to difficulties in understanding the impact on production performance.
Innovation Solution
A display method that aligns time axes for each manufacturing process and displays symbols representing manufacturing facilities within segments, allowing for the visualization of manufacturing routes by connecting symbols corresponding to facilities in each process, enabling clear representation of the manufacturing route's influence on productivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a timeline display is used to show manufacturing processes, then production performance can be visualized, but the influence of different manufacturing routes on productivity cannot be visualized when multiple facilities are involved in one process
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple lanes, with each lane representing a different manufacturing facility within a process. This segmentation allows the timeline to show not only the chronological progression of manufacturing but also the specific facility used at each stage, thereby visualizing different manufacturing routes without significantly increasing overall display complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an additional dimension to the traditional timeline by adding vertical lanes for different facilities. Instead of a single linear timeline, the display now has multiple parallel lanes that represent different manufacturing routes, allowing viewers to compare productivity and identify route differences while maintaining a clear visual structure.
2Productivity
If all individual bodies are displayed in the same manufacturing route assumption, then the timeline display remains simple, but it becomes difficult to identify the actual impact of different manufacturing routes on productivity
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the timeline into multiple facility-specific lanes, the display preserves and visualizes the actual manufacturing facility information for each individual body. This segmentation enables productivity analysis by allowing direct comparison of processing times and routes across different facilities while maintaining information accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies of the timeline structure for each manufacturing facility, with each lane being a copy that displays the same temporal information but filtered to show only the facility-specific data. This copying approach allows comprehensive productivity analysis across all facilities while keeping each individual lane simple and interpretable.
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AI summary
A display method includes: displaying a line segment indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process, with time axes aligned in a same direction, based on information of a start time and an end time of a manufacturing process of a product in each process of a manufacturing system that manufactures a product through a plurality of processes sequentially, in a state being segmented for each process in order of execution of the process, for each of one or more products manufactured by the manufacturing system, by a processor; and displaying a symbol representing a manufacturing facility belonging to a corresponding process in a segment matched with a separating position of the segment, by the processor.