Patent ID: 7283939
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting an operator who performs mechanical design of a given product, by means of a computer, said method comprising: a setup step registering in a database information about design specifications, components, design items, the correlations between said design specifications and said components, and the correlations between said design items and said design specifications or between said design items and said components, which are required for the mechanical design of said product, while giving given definitions to said informations on a computer; a design-specification determination step presenting said design specifications to the operator so as to prompt the operator on a computer to determine the content of said design specifications required for said specific version of said product while performing addition, alteration and/or deletion on design specifications on the computer if required; a component determination step extracting components for said specific version from said database in accordance with said design specification-component correlations registered in said setup step, and presenting said extracted components to the operator on a computer so as to prompt said operator to determine components required for said specific version while performing addition, alteration and/or deletion on components if required; a design-item determination step using a computer to extract design items in accordance with said design item-design specification correlations or said design item-component correlations registered in said setup step, presenting said extracted design items to the operator, and then prompting said operator to determine design items required for said specific version while performing addition, alteration and/or deletion on design items if required; and a design-item execution step using a computer to present to the operator specific job content of each of said design items determined in said design-item determination step, and to navigate and to prompt said operator to execute said job content.