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AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Mito, Hideyuki Tanaka, Naoaki Nonaka, Masataka Yamamoto, Masashi Suzuki
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In an equipment application calculating apparatus, a product variation calculating section determines a product variation table based on variations of a product and specification of each of the product variations, the product variation table correlating each of the product variations and equipments related to the specifications of the product variations. A part applying section determines a part property table for each of items from the product variation table based on combinations of selected ones of the equipments to be mounted on the item. The part property table correlates each of the combinations of the selected equipments and a part. A part table calculating section determines a part table for the item from the product variation table and the part property table to correlate each of the product variations and the part.
An equipment application calculating apparatus comprising:
A designing support method comprising the steps of:
A program stored in a recording medium and executed by a computer, said program comprises the functions of:
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an equipment application calculating apparatus and a designing support method, in which application of parts in a part table of a product are. 2. Description of the Related Art
In designing an apparatus such as an automobile having a complex structure and composed of a number of parts, the parts are managed by using a part table. Here, the part table is the table for managing parent parts, i.e., main parts constituting the automobile, and child parts, i.e., parts constituting each parent part, a number of each part, data peculiar to each part such as a design change history of the part, an assembling unit in a product, a usage state and the like.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an equipment application calculating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2A is a diagram showing an type based equipment specification table, and FIG. 2B is a diagram showing a type-based equipment table;
FIG. 3A is a diagram showing an equipment-part number table, FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a type-based equipment table for explaining an extraction product variation, and FIG. 3C is a diagram showing a part table;
Hereinafter, an equipment application calculating apparatus and a designing support method according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the attached drawings. The equipment application calculating method according to the present invention functions as a designing support apparatus using the equipment application calculating apparatus. Below, the present invention will be described using the design of an automobile as an example. However, the present invention can be also applied to a design of another apparatus having a complex structure and composed of a number of parts.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the equipment application calculating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The equipment application calculating apparatus is a data processing apparatus exemplified as a workstation and a personal computer. The equipment application calculating apparatus includes an equipment application processing unit 1, a storage unit 2 and an input and output unit 3. The equipment application processing unit 1 operates based on a program which is loaded into the unit 1 from a recording medium.
The equipment application processing unit 1 will be described. In this embodiment, a kind of a product designates a kind of an automobile. A type designates a grade of the kind of the automobile such as 20E, 20T and 25S or EX, DX and LX. The specification of the product contains designation of equipments to be provided in each type of each model. The equipments are such as a transmission (MT (manual transmission), AT (automatic transmission)), an air bag (SRS: supplemental restraint system), an antilock brake system (ABS), and a cruise control (C/C) and whether each of the equipments should be provided is designated based on the specification of the product.