Operation supporting apparatus, operation supporting method, and program

An operation supporting method by an operation supporting apparatus that supports an operation of a manufacturing facility that manufactures a product, the opera method comprising:

• acquiring operation process data that is process data related to the operation of the manufacturing facility and that includes first process data as a performance value which is set based on an operation by an operator in the manufacturing facility and second process data including data related to a quality of the product or a quality of the operation;
• storing, in an operation process data storage arrangement of the operation supporting apparatus, past operation process data in past operations of the manufacturing facility that is stored in the past and current operation process data in a current operation of the manufacturing facility, the past operation process data and the current operation process data being the operation process data acquired in the operation process data acquisition step;
• searching past operation process data similar to the current operation process data from the past operation process data based on the first process data or the second process data in the current operation process data;
• determining whether there is an action of an operation by the operator in the operation in the first process data based on the first process data;
• storing, in an action data storage arrangement of the operation supporting apparatus, action data related to the action determined in the action determination step;
• searching the action data related to the past operation process data searched in the similar operation search step from the action data stored in the action data storage arrangement;
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• evaluating the action data searched in the action past operation search step using the second process data.

A computer readable medium having a computer program, which is executable by a processor, comprising:

• a program code arrangement having program code for causing execution of an operation supporting task by an operation supporting apparatus that supports an operation of a manufacturing facility that manufactures a product, by performing the following:
• acquiring operation process data that is process data related to the operation of the manufacturing facility and that includes first process data as a performance value which is set based on an operation by an operator in the manufacturing facility and second process data including data related to a quality of the product or a quality of the operation;
• storing, in operation process data storage arrangement of the operation supporting apparatus, past operation process data in past operations of the manufacturing facility that is stored in the past and current operation process data in a current operation of the manufacturing facility, the past operation process data and the current operation process data being the operation process data acquired in the operation process data acquisition step;
• searching past operation process data similar to the current operation process data from the past operation process data based on the first process data or the second process data in the current operation process data;
• determining whether there is an action of an operation by the operator in the operation in the first process data based on the first process data;
• storing, in action data storage arrangement of the operation supporting apparatus, action data related to the action determined in the action determination step;
• searching the action data related to the past operation process data searched in the similar operation search step from the action data stored in the action data storage arrangement;
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• evaluation step of evaluating the action data searched in the action past operation search step using the second process data.