Inter-apparatus movement time estimation device, inter-apparatus movement time estimation method and operation schedule proposal system

An inter-apparatus movement time estimation device comprising processing circuitry:

• to receive, from a plurality of apparatuses, a plurality of operation notification packets each containing operation time information which is information about an operation time of an operator for each of the apparatuses;
• to generate a plurality of combinations of an operation time of a first apparatus among the plurality of apparatuses and an operation time of a second apparatus among the plurality of apparatuses from the operation time information contained in each of the plurality of operation notification packets that are received;
• to compute a difference between the operation time of the first apparatus and the operation time of the second apparatus as an inter-apparatus operation time difference for each of the plurality of combinations that are generated;
• to output an exclusion result in which an inter-apparatus operation time difference whose occurrence probability is relatively low or whose size is relatively small is excluded from a plurality of the inter-apparatus operation time differences that are computed;
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• to estimate time required for the operator to move between the first apparatus and the second apparatus as a necessary inter-apparatus movement time on the basis of the exclusion result that are outputted.