Production Chart Visualization for Multi-Model Retention Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing production management systems struggle to effectively visualize and manage production processes where multiple product models are produced, with varying sequential orders of steps, leading to difficulties in identifying retention issues and productivity problems.
Innovation Solution
A production management supporting system that analyzes past record information to detect retention situations and performs accentuated displays on a diagram chart, allowing for better visualization of retention periods and productivity issues across different product models and steps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a visualization technique displays production period and wait period for each step in a line production system, then production management for single-model sequential production is improved, but the system cannot support multi-model production with varying step sequences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the production management visualization by creating separate display regions for different product models. Each model's production steps and timelines are displayed independently in their own region, allowing the system to handle multiple models with different step sequences without creating a complex unified visualization. This segmentation enables the system to adapt to various production configurations while maintaining manageable display complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension in the visualization by adding a product model dimension to the existing time-step matrix. Instead of trying to fit all models into a single flat timeline, the system creates multiple two-dimensional display regions stacked or arranged in space, where each region represents a different product model. This dimensional approach allows the system to accommodate varying step sequences for different models without increasing the complexity of individual visualizations.
2Loss of information
If production management chart displays all steps for all product models, then comprehensive production overview is achieved, but retention issues and productivity problems become difficult to identify
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different display characteristics for different regions of the production management chart. Each product model's display region can be customized to highlight specific metrics relevant to that model, such as retention periods or productivity indicators. This allows comprehensive information to be displayed while maintaining the ability to easily detect specific issues in each model's dedicated region, as the visualization quality is optimized locally for each model rather than uniformly across all models.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a single sequential order of steps is used for visualization, then simple line production management is enabled, but mixed sequential orders for different product models cannot be represented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the visualization structure adaptable to different product models' step sequences. Each product model's display region dynamically adjusts to reflect its specific sequential order of steps, rather than forcing all models into a fixed sequence. This dynamic configuration allows the system to represent mixed sequential orders for different models while maintaining ease of operation, as each model's visualization automatically adapts to its production requirements without requiring complex manual reconfiguration.
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AI summary
The production management support system analyzes, on the basis of one or more attentional perspectives on a plurality of different models of products, past record information that includes information as a past record which shows, for each product loaded in a production system in which the plurality of different models of products are loaded and a sequential order of two or more of a plurality of steps is different depending on the model, an execution time of each of the steps and that serves as a basis for a production management chart showing a production situation, to detect, among display objects displayed in the production management chart, a display object satisfying one or more requirements associated with the one or more attentional perspectives. The system performs accentuated display on at least one of the detected display objects.