Work Improvement Support Apparatus, and Work Improvement Support System

A work improvement support system comprising:

• a work improvement support apparatus;
• a production facility at a manufacturing site;
• a sensor provided at the manufacturing site;
• and a site terminal provided at a site and configured to display an output result of the work improvement support apparatus, wherein
• the production facility transmits history of an operating state to the work improvement support apparatus,
• the sensor transmits detection information to the work improvement support apparatus, and
• the work improvement support apparatus includes:
• a communication unit configured to perform communication with each of the production facility, the sensor and the site terminal;
• a storage unit configured to store a collected history of the operating state, the detection information, a production plan and user information;
• an improvement target extraction unit configured to analyze the history of the operating state and the production plan in combination and extract an element which becomes a target to be improved;
• an improvement measure estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement measure effective for the element which becomes the target to be improved from an analysis result of the history of the operating state and the production plan;
• and
• an analysis result generation unit configured to specify predetermined layout using attribute information included in the user information and generate a screen which provides the target to be improved and an improvement measure to a user in accordance with the layout.

A work improvement support method using a work improvement support system which includes:

• a work improvement support apparatus;
• a production facility at a manufacturing site;
• a sensor provided at the manufacturing site;
• and a site terminal provided at a site and configured to display an output result of the work improvement support apparatus,
• the production facility transmitting history of an operating state to the work improvement support apparatus,
• the sensor transmitting detection information to the work improvement support apparatus,
• the work improvement support apparatus including:
• a communication unit configured to communicate with each of the production facility, the sensor and the site terminal;
• and
• a storage unit configured to store a collected history of the operating state, the detection information, a production plan and user information, the work improvement support method comprising:
• an improvement target extraction step of analyzing the history of the operating state and the production plan in combination and extracting an element which becomes a target to be improved;
• an improvement measure estimation step of estimating an improvement measure effective for the element which becomes the target to be improved from an analysis result of the history of the operating state and the production plan;
• and
• an analysis result generation step of specifying predetermined layout using attribute information included in the user information and generating a screen which provides the target to be improved and an improvement measure to a user in accordance with the layout.