Method of acquiring environment consideration condition information

US6829743B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · JP

Inventors

• Akinori Hongu · Odawara, JP
• Kazuhito Haruki · Yokohama, JP
• Miho Takahashi · Yokohama, JP
• Hideki Shimada · Tokyo, JP
• Kazuhiko Nishimura · Fukuoka, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 9, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 7, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Supplier-specific data of material items are extracted from data of various material items used for the manufacture of a product. Tabular data having a structure that allows various pieces of environment consideration condition information about the extracted data to be input is created by using general-purpose spreadsheet software. The tabular data is laid out to locate an item whose contents are likely to change at an end of a table so as to minimize a change in data structure in the event of a change in contents of environment consideration condition items. The tabular data is provided to the supplier. Environment consideration condition information about each material item is acquired by using the tabular data containing the environment consideration condition information added to the tabular data on the supplier side.