Method for assisting analysis of production process, program for making computer execute that method, program product, and storage medium
US6973363B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 24, 2005 |
| Grant date | Dec 6, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 24, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P90/02
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of assisting analysis of a production process assisting work for analyzing the relationship between quality factors and characteristic of a product and a program product and a recording medium for the same, comprising receiving a designation of a factor from a user at a computer, arranging images corresponding to said image data related to the received factor in a virtual space in a display device connected to the computer (S13), displaying the virtual space in which the images are arranged in the display device (S14), repeating the designation reception, arrangement, and display until the user judges that there is similarity between adjoining images in the displayed images, receiving designation of at least one image by the user from images having similarity between adjoining images (S15), automatically extracting common factors among factors of the designated image (S16), receiving a hypothesis of a relationship between the common factors designated by the user and quality of products, and verifying the relation hypothesis (S17) so as to thereby assist work for analyzing the relationship between factors selected by the user and the product characteristic and adding to fa…
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