Production Line Design Device, Production Line Design System, and Production Line Design Method

A production line design system including a production line design device and an external device, wherein

• the production line design device includes
• a storage unit configured to store product CAD information pertaining to a shape of a product, component attribute information pertaining to an attribute of a component, module group specification information pertaining to a specification of a module group constituted by combining attributes of modules as a production resource of the product for respective work processes of the component, and module specification information pertaining to a specification of the module, and
• a computation unit configured to design a production line by executing an equipment design, a control design, a process design, and an arrangement design in this order,
• the computation unit includes a candidate module group extraction unit that is a functional unit configured to use the information stored in the storage unit to perform the equipment design, and that is configured to extract a configuration pattern of a candidate module group obtained by combining a candidate of the module group that is work-compatible for each component of the product and the module configured that is handled in the candidate of the module group,
• the production line design device further includes a communication unit configured to transmit screen information for displaying a configuration of the designed production line and a predetermined type KPI to the external device, and
• the external device transmits an instruction pertaining to processing of the production line design device and acquires the screen information from the production line design device.

A production line design method performed by a production line design device, the production line design method comprising:

• by the production line design device,
• a storage step of storing a product CAD information pertaining to a shape of a product, a component attribute information pertaining to an attribute of a component, a module group specification information pertaining to a specification of a module group constituted by combining attributes of modules as a production resource of the product for respective work processes of the component, and module specification information pertaining to a specification of the module, and
• a computation step of designing a production line by executing an equipment design, a control design, a process design, and an arrangement design in this order, wherein
• in the computation step, in the equipment design performed using the information stored in the storage step, a candidate module group extracting step of extracting a configuration pattern of a candidate module group obtained by combining a candidate of the module group that is work-compatible for each component of the product and the module that is handled in the candidate of the module group is performed.