Patent ID: 8196054
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G06Q,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An on-site system building support tool for building an on-site system on a screen of a display unit to simulate the on-site system, the on-site system including a plurality of machines, each of which is self-propelled, travelable, or transportable, and the on-site system processing an object to be processed in situ where the object to be processed has been produced, wherein computing means performs the steps of: displaying a layout creation screen on the display unit, the layout creation screen including: displaying, in the canvas area, an icon selected in the icon area according to an operation signal from an operation device based on GUI operation; after the plurality of icons are positioned in the canvas area, displaying, in the canvas area, a mark indicating, in a discriminable manner, how each process which is associated with the plurality of icons selected in the canvas area is connected to a previous or next process of each process; when an icon is selected and clicked in the canvas area, displaying, on the display unit, a model setting screen used to specify a model of a machine to be used in a process associated with the selected icon, and to specify the number of the machines, and a workload of the machine; and on the basis of information about the number of machines corresponding to the model and the workload of the machine specified on the model setting screen and about fuel consumption provided beforehand, calculating a load which the on-site system virtually built on the canvas area applies to environment, and then displaying the result of the calculation on the display unit;