Production management system, non-transitory recording medium, and production management method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYuzo Obata
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Abstract
A production management system includes circuitry to store in a memory profile information on a plurality of production companies, each production company owning at least one production site having production equipment connected to a network, display the profile information of the plurality of production companies to be viewed by a user of the production equipment, and receive selection of one of the plurality of production companies with which an order of a product to be produced is placed.
Claims20
A production management system comprising circuitry configured to:
- store in a memory profile information on a plurality of production companies, each production company owning at least one production site having production equipment connected to a network;
- display the profile information of the plurality of production companies to be viewed by a user of the production equipment;
- and
- receive selection of one of the plurality of production companies with which an order of a product to be produced is placed,
- wherein the memory further stores operating state information of production equipment,
- wherein the selection is performed by the user based on the operating state information and production capacity, and
- wherein the production management system further comprises:
- communication circuitry to continuously or periodically obtain the operating state information from dedicated equipment monitoring systems located at the production sites via a network connection, and
- another communication circuitry to transmit the operating state information received by the communication circuitry for the selection by the user.
A non-transitory recording medium carrying computer readable codes for controlling a computer system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- storing in a memory profile information on a plurality of production companies, each production company owning at least one production site having production equipment connected to a network;
- displaying the profile information of the plurality of production companies to be viewed by a user of the production equipment;
- and
- receiving selection of one of the plurality of production companies with which an order of a product to be produced is place,
- wherein the storing further stores operating state information of production equipment,
- wherein the selection is performed by the user based on the operating state information and production capacity, and
- wherein the production management method further comprises:
- continuously or periodically obtaining the operating state information from dedicated equipment monitoring systems located at the production sites via a network connection, and
- transmitting the operating state information which has been received for the selection by the user.
A production management method comprising:
- storing in a memory profile information on a plurality of production companies, each production company owning at least one production site having production equipment connected to a network;
- displaying the profile information of the plurality of production companies to be viewed by a user of the production equipment;
- and
- receiving selection of one of the plurality of production companies with which an order of a product to be produced is placed,
- wherein the storing further stores operating state information of production equipment,
- wherein the selection is performed by the user based on the operating state information and production capacity, and
- wherein the production management method further comprises:
- continuously or periodically obtaining the operating state information from dedicated equipment monitoring systems located at the production sites via a network connection, and
- transmitting the operating state information which has been received for the selection by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.