Management Apparatus for Grouped Product Scheduling and Task Visualization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing a task schedule for multiple products in a production process becomes complex and difficult to grasp when there are many products to be manufactured, leading to inefficiencies in production planning and execution.

Innovation Solution

A management system that groups products based on predetermined conditions such as delivery destination and date, creates schedules for each group, and displays the schedules with task information on a display unit, using a Gantt chart and list views to facilitate easier planning and execution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple base stations perform random access procedures simultaneously, then communication service is provided, but access conflicts occur and communication quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess capacityVSAvoidcommunication quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The invention segments the random access resources by associating different downlink data channels with different uplink data channels. This segmentation allows user terminals to perform random access procedures on different uplink channels based on their assigned downlink channels, thereby dividing the shared resource space and reducing access conflicts while maintaining high access capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If downlink data channel resources are increased, then communication service quality is improved, but resource waste occurs due to lack of corresponding uplink resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication service qualityVSAvoidresource waste
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The invention applies preliminary action by pre-configuring the association relationship between downlink data channels and uplink data channels before random access occurs. This allows the system to prepare appropriate uplink resources in advance for each downlink channel, ensuring that when downlink resources are allocated, corresponding uplink resources are already available, thus preventing resource waste while maintaining high communication quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4030364A1Management apparatus, management system, and program
Publication Date: 2022.07.20 KOBAYASHI MANUFACTURING CO LTD
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AI summary

A group creation unit creates in accordance with predetermined conditions at least one group that includes at least one of a plurality of products to be manufactured. A schedule creation unit creates a schedule for manufacturing the plurality of products for each of the at least one group. A display control unit displays on a display unit the schedule for each of the at least one group, together with information on a task for manufacturing each of the at least one of the plurality of products included in the at least one group.