Patent ID: 7942322
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A work instruction management system, managing work instruction sheets at the time of manufacturing products, comprising: a first table defining correspondences between stored information in radio frequency IC tags provided to products or accompanying objects moving along with the products and product information including color information indicating a color of the products; a second table defining correspondences between radio frequency IC tag readers provided to manufacturing processes of the products and the manufacturing processes to which the respective radio frequency IC tag readers are provided; a third table defining correspondences between the manufacturing processes for each of the products and work instruction sheets for the respective manufacturing processes; a tag information obtaining unit configured to obtain the stored information in each of the radio frequency IC tags read by each of the radio frequency IC tag readers and information on the radio frequency IC tag reader itself by performing data communications with the radio frequency IC tag reader and to store the information in a memory; a tracking support unit configured to read the stored information and the information on the radio frequency IC tag reader from the memory, then to obtain product information of the given product by matching the stored information with the first table, then to specify a manufacturing process by matching the information on the radio frequency IC tag reader with the second table and to store the obtained product information on the product and the information on the specified manufacturing process in the memory; an instruction sheet form generation support unit configured to read the product information on the product and the information on the manufacturing process from the memory, then to specify a work instruction sheet for the given manufacturing process of the given product by matching the information with the third table, as well as to create work instruction sheet data by setting either a background color or font color of the specified work instruction sheet to the color of the product as indicated by the color information included in the product information, and then to store the work instruction sheet data in the memory; a work instruction support unit configured to read the work instruction sheet data from the memory and then to perform output processing for outputting the work instruction sheet data to an output interface; an electronic paper: the electronic paper including: the electronic paper further includes: