Spray Work Planning With Feedback-Based Status Alerts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional work management systems fail to accurately reflect current work status and do not properly account for spray work parameters, leading to incomplete or improper execution of work plans, especially in spray operations.

Innovation Solution

A work management method and system that acquires and displays spray work plans, calculates and shows the required spray amount and time, and creates work plans based on these parameters to ensure accurate and proper execution of spray work.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If conventional work management systems store pre-registered work plans and send notifications to workers, then workers can check work content before execution, but the current work status cannot be reflected in the work plan when workers fail to accomplish or forget work

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvework status informationVSAvoidwork plan execution reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by automatically detecting whether work has been accomplished through work history information and notifying workers of upcoming work plans based on actual completion status. This closes the information loop between work execution and plan management, ensuring workers receive accurate notifications about what work remains to be done.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If conventional systems do not display spray amount and spray time when creating work plans, then operators can create work plans quickly, but spray work cannot be done as planned and improper spray matter may be applied

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespray work precisionVSAvoidwork plan creation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary calculation of spray amount and spray time based on the target route before the work plan is executed. By pre-calculating these parameters and making them available during work plan creation, the system eliminates the need for manual calculation while ensuring accurate spray parameters are incorporated into the plan.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary calculation process that automatically determines spray parameters based on the target route. This intermediary function bridges the gap between the work plan creation interface and the actual spray execution, ensuring that accurate spray amount and time information is provided to operators without requiring them to perform complex calculations manually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If workers are not notified of upcoming work plans after failing to accomplish scheduled work, then work instructions are not updated, but workers cannot accurately know the work status that accords to the work plan

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvework status trackingVSAvoidwork completion efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors work completion status through work history information and provides feedback notifications to workers about upcoming work plans. This feedback mechanism ensures workers are always informed of their current work status and what work needs to be accomplished next, maintaining both ease of operation and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP4180896A1Work management method, work management system, and work management program
Publication Date: 2023.05.17 YANMAR HLDG CO LTD
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AI summary

[Problem] To provide a work management method, a work management system, and a work management program that enable a worker to know a work status which accords to a work plan. [Solution] An operation management method does: acquiring a work plan that mutually associates a farm field F where a work vehicle 10 does work, work content of the work to be done by the work vehicle 10 at the farm field F, and a scheduled work day of the work; determining whether or not a first work plan that needs to be alerted for the work vehicle 10 to do the work as planned in the work plan is present in plural work plans that include the work plan; and notifying work information on the first work plan, when the first work plan is present in the plural work plans.