Twin Model Visualization for Cross-Process Knowledge Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques face challenges in promoting deep mutual understanding among users with different task allocations in the manufacturing industry, as knowledge remains tacit and is difficult to share effectively across different work processes.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes a server device and terminal devices, allowing users to accept and update visualization screens of a twin model representing manufacturing and distribution processes, enabling users to add evaluation indices, change control and display conditions, and add comments, which are then notified to other users for reflection in their visualization screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional techniques present models representing each work process and deliverables, then each user can access information within their own task range, but deepening mutual understanding among users with different task allocations remains difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual work process models into a single integrated visualization screen that displays all work processes and deliverables simultaneously. This allows users with different task allocations to view and understand the complete workflow together, transforming tacit knowledge into shared explicit knowledge without requiring complex separate systems for each user.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization screen serves multiple functions: it displays models of different work processes, shows deliverables, allows users to add their own interpretations and comments, and enables mutual understanding across different task allocations. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate information systems for each user group.
2Productivity
If users accumulate knowledge within their own allocated work ranges, then local optimizing work improvement can be expected, but knowledge remains as tacit knowledge and deepening mutual understanding is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by allowing users to add interpretations and comments to the visualization screen, which are then reflected in the display for all users to see. This creates a continuous loop where users can share their tacit knowledge through interpretations, and others can provide feedback through their own interpretations and comments, gradually converting tacit knowledge into shared explicit knowledge while maintaining local optimization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization screen acts as an intermediary that captures and displays users' interpretations and comments. Instead of direct user-to-user communication which may be difficult across different task allocations, the system mediates knowledge sharing by recording each user's interpretations and making them visible to all, thereby converting tacit knowledge into explicit, shareable information.
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AI summary
To promote appropriate mutual understanding among a plurality of users, an information processing device accepts, as a first instruction, a change instruction for changing a visualization screen that visualizes a model representing preset physical entities, the change instruction including at least one instruction of an index addition instruction, a control change instruction, a display change instruction, and a comment addition instruction. The device displays a visualization screen according to the accepted first instruction on a preset display unit. After the display of the visualization screen corresponding to the first instruction, the device accepts, as a second instruction, at least one instruction of the index addition instruction, the control change instruction, the display change instruction, and the comment addition instruction. When the second instruction has been accepted, the device notifies the fact that the visualization screen has been changed to a preset notification destination.