Patent ID: 7962235
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: G05B,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An operation instructing system for a production system comprising a plurality of production lines, a respective production process including manual steps to be carried out by an operator being carried out in each of the plurality of production lines, a number of production elements being successively entered into the production system for the production in the plurality of production lines, the operation instructing system notifying the operator of an instruction of a next manual step to be performed by the operator next, the operation instructing system comprising: a process information retaining section retaining in advance, for each of the plurality of production lines, process information about a respective production process to be carried out in each of the plurality of production lines; an individual process information obtaining section obtaining, each time each of the production elements is entered into the production system, the process information about one of the plurality of the production lines that is used to produce the entered production element; a state information obtaining section obtaining, for each of the production elements currently in the production system, state information about remaining production process that is to be performed on each production element, on the basis of the process information obtained by the individual process information obtaining section; a completion report obtaining section obtaining an operation completion report representing that the operator has completed one of the manual steps; a determining section determining, each time the completion report obtaining section obtains the operation completion report, the next manual step that is to be performed next by the operator, as a next operation step, on the basis of the state information obtained by the state information obtaining section; and a notifying section notifying the operator of the next operation step determined by the determining section.