Method and system of managing construction-related information and production-related information

A method of totally managing a plurality of sets of construction-related information and a plurality of sets of production-related information, each of said plurality of sets of construction-related information relating a constructional relationship between a corresponding one of a plurality of products to be produced and a plurality of parts which constitutes said each product, while said plurality of sets of production-related information relating production of said products, respectively, said method comprising the steps of:

• determining each of said plurality of sets of construction-related information and said plurality of sets of production-related information as a corresponding one of a plurality of objects, each of said objects being constituted according to an object-oriented concept by substantially encapsulating an attribute and a method;
• describing a substance of said each object by a cooperative combination of a set of data and a procedure to be applied to said set of data;
• defining said set of data and said procedure of of said each object as said attribute and said method of said each object, respectively;
• extracting at least one relationship of each of said plurality of objects with the other of said objects;
• classifying said plurality of objects into a plurality of classes on the basis of the extracted at least one relationship of said each object;
• defining a substance of said each object and a substance of said at least one relationship of said each object as said attribute, and defining an action of said object as said method of said each object;
• generating a plurality of sets of object data including first data indicative of the substantially encapsulated attribute and method of said each object, and second data indicative of said extracted at least one relationship of said each object, said first data and said second data being related to each other;
• storing said plurality of sets of object data for said each object in a product information memory;
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• retrieving at least one of said plurality of sets of object data from said product information memory, and outputting each of the retrieved at least one set of object data.

A system for totally managing a plurality of sets of construction-related information and a plurality of sets of production-related information, each of said plurality of sets of construction-related information relating a constructional relationship between a corresponding one of a plurality of products to be produced and a plurality of parts which constitutes said each product, while said plurality of sets of production-related information relating production of said products, respectively, said system comprising:

• a product information memory for storing said plurality of sets of construction-related information and said plurality of sets of production-related information as a plurality of subjects which can be processed similarly and which are classified into a plurality of classes on the basis of extracted at least one relationship of each of said plurality of subjects with the other of said subjects;
• a data storing device operable to store a set of subject data incorporating a plurality of sets of element data for each of said plurality of subjects in relation to each other, in said product information memory, in response to a first data storing operation by a user of the system, said plurality of sets of element data for said each subject including at least one set of subject substance data indicative of a substance of said each subject and at least one set of relationship substance data indicative of a substance of each of said extracted at least one relationship of said each subject;
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• a subject data output device for retrieving at least one of said plurality of subject data from said product information memory and outputting each of the retrieved at least one set of subject data, in response to an operation by said user.