Patent ID: 9146827
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A design support system for presenting components to be affected by design change of a component in an existing product, said design support system comprising: a component name database which stores the names of components making up the product; a relevant information database which stores data which is generated based on past failure events of the product, the data at least including, in relation to each of the failure events, the name of a tier-one component having failed and the name of a tier-two component having presumably affected the failure of the tier-one component or been affected thereby; a component network generator which, based on the data stored in said component name database and said relevant information database, generates data of a component network covering the names of the components making up the product as well as relevance between these components; a component network database which stores the data generated by said component network generator; and a component network diagram display controller which reads data from said component network database and causes a screen display unit to display a component network diagram based on the read data.