Supplied Article Asset Timing in Components Management

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing management systems face challenges in efficiently managing supplied articles as assets when production plans change, leading to increased asset inventory due to prolonged storage of these articles.

Innovation Solution

A components management system that includes a reception section for registering storage location information for supplied articles and a supplied article appropriating section that appropriates the article's price as an asset at a predetermined timing after the article is unloaded for production use.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the supplied article is registered as an asset upon receipt, then the asset management is complete and straightforward, but the supplied article may stay on the asset for a long period due to production plan changes, increasing asset inventory

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of asset managementVSAvoidasset inventory

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the supplied article as an asset upon receipt, but delays the actual asset appropriation until the article is unloaded from storage. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare for asset management while avoiding the problem of long-term asset inventory accumulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The asset status of the supplied article is made dynamic rather than static. The article transitions from a registered state to an appropriated asset state only when it is unloaded from storage, allowing the asset inventory to fluctuate based on actual production needs and reducing unnecessary asset accumulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the supplied article is kept in storage for a long time, then the customer can have flexibility in production timing, but the asset inventory increases and management becomes less appropriate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduction plan flexibilityVSAvoidasset inventory

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the supplied article as an asset upon receipt, but delays the actual asset appropriation until the article is unloaded from storage. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare for asset management while avoiding the problem of long-term asset inventory accumulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The asset status of the supplied article is made dynamic rather than static. The article transitions from a registered state to an appropriated asset state only when it is unloaded from storage, allowing the asset inventory to fluctuate based on actual production needs and reducing unnecessary asset accumulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of manufacture

If the supplied article is appropriated as an asset early, then the asset management is simplified, but corrections are needed when the article is returned to the customer without being used

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of asset managementVSAvoidasset information correction

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the supplied article as an asset upon receipt, but delays the actual asset appropriation until the article is unloaded from storage. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare for asset management while avoiding the problem of long-term asset inventory accumulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts the asset appropriation action from the initial receipt process and separates it into a distinct event that occurs only when the article is unloaded from storage. This separation eliminates the need for corrective actions when articles are returned without being used.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP3951522B1Components management system

Publication Date: 2025.02.19 FUJI CORP

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AI summary

The components management system that performs a management of a component used in production of a product by a production device includes a reception section configured to, in a case where a supplied article supplied from a customer of the product is received as the component, perform reception processing of registering information on a storage location at which the supplied article is stored for each handling unit in association with component information; and a supplied article appropriating section configured to appropriate a price of the supplied article as an asset at a predetermined timing after the supplied article is unloaded from the storage location for use in the production by the production device.