Production Activity Support System for Component Mounting Maintenance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing maintenance work support systems in component mounting systems face challenges in efficiently executing medium- and long-term maintenance plans due to limitations in predicting maintenance needs across diverse facilities and units, leading to inefficient maintenance operations.

Innovation Solution

A production activity support system that includes a production information acquirer, storage for maintenance relevant information, a maintenance work plan creation unit, a setting unit for scheduling maintenance, and a display for notifications, which calculates maintenance priorities based on historical data and production plans to create and execute efficient maintenance work plans.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional maintenance work support systems are used in component mounting systems, then maintenance plans can be drafted for individual devices or groups, but efficient execution of medium- and long-term maintenance work across diverse facilities cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance execution efficiencyVSAvoidapplicability to diverse facilities
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The maintenance work support system is designed to universally support diverse facilities including component mounting devices, printing apparatus, and other equipment within the component mounting system. The system integrates multiple maintenance planning functions (individual device plans, group plans, and system-wide plans) into a single unified platform that can handle various maintenance scenarios across different facility types, thereby achieving both efficiency and adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If maintenance work is executed based on simple scheduling without considering production plans, then maintenance operations can be planned, but maintenance needs cannot be accurately predicted leading to inefficient maintenance execution

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance need prediction accuracyVSAvoidmaintenance planning time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring facility operation data, maintenance history, and production plan changes. This feedback loop enables the system to dynamically adjust maintenance predictions and schedules based on actual facility conditions and production requirements, improving prediction accuracy without requiring excessive manual planning time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of facility usage patterns, production schedules, and historical maintenance data to predict future maintenance needs before they actually occur. This advance prediction allows maintenance to be scheduled proactively based on predicted needs rather than reacting to failures, improving reliability while optimizing the use of planning time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10684615B2Production activity support system
Publication Date: 2020.06.16 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A production activity support system for supporting production activity in a component mounting system, comprises: a production information acquirer obtaining production information including a production plan of a production operation executed in the component mounting system and production performance information; a storage storing maintenance relevant information regarding execution history information indicating a history of the maintenance work executed on each of the maintenance targets; a maintenance work plan creation unit creating a work plan of the maintenance work executed on at the maintenance targets; and a display displaying a notification that the maintenance work indicated by the work plan created by the maintenance work plan creation unit is executed at the set maintenance execution date and time along with the production plan.