Information processing apparatus and method and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a first receiver that receives a first quality function deployment chart having at least three axes, items which are formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each of the axes, an axis name being appended to each of the axes, and an item name being appended to each of the items;
• a second receiver that receives a second quality function deployment chart, which is different from the first quality function deployment chart;
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• an integrating unit that integrates the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart into a third quality function deployment chart, wherein, concerning an axis of the first quality function deployment chart and an axis of the second quality function deployment chart having the same axis name, as a result of sequentially extracting items associated with the axes of the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart starting from a highest hierarchical level of the items, if an item name positioned in a certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart coincides with an item name in the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart and if an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart does not coincide with an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart, the integrating unit sets the consistent item names to be a common item name in the certain hierarchical level of items on an associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart and disposes the inconsistent item names in parallel in a corresponding hierarchical level of items on the associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart.

An information processing method comprising:

• receiving a first quality function deployment chart having at least three axes, items which are formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each of the axes, an axis name being appended to each of the axes, and an item name being appended to each of the items;
• receiving a second quality function deployment chart, which is different from the first quality function deployment chart;
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• integrating the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart into a third quality function deployment chart, wherein, concerning an axis of the first quality function deployment chart and an axis of the second quality function deployment chart having the same axis name, if part of an item name positioned in a highest hierarchical level of items associated with the axis of the first quality function deployment chart coincides with part of an item name positioned in a highest hierarchical level of items associated with the axis of the second quality function deployment chart and if a remaining part of the item name of the first quality function deployment chart does not coincide with a remaining part of the item name of the second quality function deployment chart, the consistent parts are set to be an item name in a highest hierarchical level of items on an associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart and the inconsistent parts are set to be item names in a second highest hierarchical level of items on the associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart.

An information processing method comprising:

• receiving a first quality function deployment chart having at least three axes, items which are formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each of the axes, an axis name being appended to each of the axes, and an item name being appended to each of the items;
• receiving a second quality function deployment chart, which is different from the first quality function deployment chart;
• and
• integrating the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart into a third quality function deployment chart, wherein, concerning an axis of the first quality function deployment chart and an axis of the second quality function deployment chart having the same axis name, as a result of sequentially extracting items associated with the axes of the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart starting from a highest hierarchical level of the items, if an item name positioned in a certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart coincides with an item name in the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart and if an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart does not coincide with an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart, the consistent item names are set to be a common item name in the certain hierarchical level of items on an associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart and the inconsistent item names are disposed in parallel in a corresponding hierarchical level of items on the associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

• receiving a first quality function deployment chart having at least three axes, items which are formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each of the axes, an axis name being appended to each of the axes, and an item name being appended to each of the items;
• receiving a second quality function deployment chart, which is different from the first quality function deployment chart;
• and
• integrating the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart into a third quality function deployment chart, wherein, concerning an axis of the first quality function deployment chart and an axis of the second quality function deployment chart having the same axis name, if part of an item name positioned in a highest hierarchical level of items associated with the axis of the first quality function deployment chart coincides with part of an item name positioned in a highest hierarchical level of items associated with the axis of the second quality function deployment chart and if a remaining part of the item name of the first quality function deployment chart does not coincide with a remaining part of the item name of the second quality function deployment chart, the consistent parts are set to be an item name in a highest hierarchical level of items on an associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart and the inconsistent parts are set to be item names in a second highest hierarchical level of items on the associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

• receiving a first quality function deployment chart having at least three axes, items which are formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each of the axes, an axis name being appended to each of the axes, and an item name being appended to each of the items;
• receiving a second quality function deployment chart, which is different from the first quality function deployment chart;
• and
• integrating the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart into a third quality function deployment chart, wherein, concerning an axis of the first quality function deployment chart and an axis of the second quality function deployment chart having the same axis name, as a result of sequentially extracting items associated with the axes of the first quality function deployment chart and the second quality function deployment chart starting from a highest hierarchical level of the items, if an item name positioned in a certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart coincides with an item name in the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart and if an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the first quality function deployment chart does not coincide with an item name positioned in a hierarchical level lower than the certain hierarchical level of the second quality function deployment chart, the consistent item names are set to be a common item name in the certain hierarchical level of items on an associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart and the inconsistent item names are disposed in parallel in a corresponding hierarchical level of items on the associated axis of the third quality function deployment chart.