Production Line Dashboard Widgets for Unified Status Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques require users to browse multiple windows or applications to grasp the state of a production line, making it difficult to collectively understand the overall status.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system and method that integrates multiple applications onto a single screen, displaying widgets that summarize key production line data, allowing users to easily navigate and access detailed information through interactive transitions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple control applications are used to manage production line, then functional capability is improved, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple control applications into a single unified application that displays widgets from different applications on one screen. This merging approach maintains the functional capabilities of multiple applications while eliminating the need for users to switch between separate windows or applications, thereby reducing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal control application that can display widgets from multiple different control applications simultaneously. This multi-functional interface allows users to access and monitor various production line aspects through a single application, improving ease of operation while preserving diverse functional capabilities.
2Loss of information
If multiple windows are displayed to show production line data, then information completeness is improved, but visual clarity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple windows displaying production line data into a single consolidated screen with widgets. This integration maintains complete information display while improving visual clarity by presenting all data in one unified view, eliminating the need for users to switch between multiple windows.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a multi-window spatial arrangement to a single-screen widget-based layout. This dimensional reorganization allows comprehensive information display within a unified visual space, improving both information completeness and visual clarity by eliminating window switching and overlapping issues.
3Measurement precision
If detailed information is provided for each production tool, then measurement precision is improved, but information overload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments detailed production tool information into individual widgets that can be displayed separately on the screen. Each widget presents specific data points in a condensed format, maintaining measurement precision while preventing information overload by organizing data into manageable, discrete units that users can selectively focus on.
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AI summary
To achieve the object of making it easier to collectively grasp the state of the production line, an information processing method includes a first screen displaying step and a second screen displaying step. A first screen displaying step displays a first screen including a plurality of widgets. Each of the widgets is configured based on information outputted from application software which is associated with each of the widgets among a plurality of pieces of application software that manage a state of a production line. A second screen displaying step, when an operation performed on any widget of the plurality of widgets has been accepted, displays a second screen of application software which is associated with the widget.