Automated Quality Confirmation for Printing Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing printing systems lack an efficient method to automate the confirmation of printed deliverables satisfying customer-defined quality requirements, leading to inefficiencies in work processes and complexities in exchanging quality requirements and reports across different information formats.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that receives quality request data, analyzes it, generates job information for quality adjustments, and transmits it to a production system, while also receiving and generating quality report data in standardized formats (PRX and PQX) to streamline the quality confirmation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If quality confirmation processes are performed manually for each printed deliverable, then quality requirements can be verified, but work man-hours increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic self-confirmation of quality requirements through automated data exchange between the order-receiving system and production system. The quality requirement data is automatically transmitted, processed, and confirmed without manual intervention, allowing the system to serve itself in the quality verification process.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual quality confirmation processes are replaced with automated information processing systems. The mechanical/manual operations of quality checking are substituted with electronic data transmission, automatic analysis, and systematic processing, eliminating the need for manual labor while maintaining quality verification.
2Adaptability or versatility
If quality requirements are exchanged in various information formats, then customer-specific requirements can be accommodated, but data exchange complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal data exchange mechanism that can handle multiple quality requirement formats through a unified information processing framework. The automatic transmission and analysis system is designed to process various formats universally, eliminating the need for separate handling procedures for each format while maintaining adaptability to different customer requirements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple data formats are used for quality data exchange, then flexibility is maintained, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Manual format conversion and processing operations are replaced with automated electronic data transmission and machine-based analysis. The system automatically receives, processes, and analyzes quality requirement data in various formats without manual intervention, dramatically reducing processing time while maintaining format flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary automatic processing of quality requirement data upon receipt, analyzing and preparing the data for quality confirmation before production begins. This preliminary automated action eliminates subsequent manual processing steps and reduces overall processing time while maintaining the ability to handle multiple formats.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor that causes the information processing apparatus to receive image data and quality request data from an order system, transmit the image data to a production system, and receive a measurement result obtained by the production system about a measurement item specified by the quality request data from among items that are able to be notified by quality data. In addition, the quality data including the measurement result about the measurement item specified by the quality request data based on the measurement result is generated, and the quality data is transmitted to the order system.