Patent ID: 9740747
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A similar design case example search apparatus for evaluating conditions satisfying requirement specification values and specifications relevant to procurement and manufacture of a target product on the basis of past design case examples and searching a matching design case example, the apparatus comprising: a design case example storage configured to store each specification value of design case examples of past products and each specification category value relevant to procurement and manufacture necessary for manufacturing the target product; a recommended weight storage configured to store specification values and recommended weight for every design case example corresponding to each specification category relevant to procurement and manufacture; a requirement specification receiving circuit configured to receive requirement specification values of the target product from a user; an order receiving policy receiving circuit configured to receive an order receiving policy for the target product, the order receiving policy comprising selection of requirement specification categories relevant to procurement and manufacture of the target product from the user, wherein an importance value is associated with each of the selected requirement specification categories selected by the user based on a level of importance of the respective selected requirement specification category in the procurement and manufacture of the target product; a requirement specification satisfaction degree calculation circuit configured to: a recommended degree calculation circuit configured to: a search result display configured to display the design case example read from the design case example storage and evaluated in a list of design case example search results for one of the requirement specification satisfaction degrees, the recommended degree, or total evaluation in the order of higher evaluation value.