Patent ID: 7844433

Claim:
A system for designing a utility facility, the system comprising: a central processing unit comprising: a state analyzer configured to analyze operational states of a plurality of tools included in a production line for producing products, respectively, each of the operational states being assumed based on production information of the products, the production information including a production plan for the products; an extraction module configured to extract an operational period and a standby period of each of the tools, based on a result of the state analysis; a calculator configured to calculate changes in a quantity of utilities consumed by each of the tools with respect to time, based on quantities of utilities consumed by each of the tools in operation and in standby during the operational periods and the standby periods; and a facility design module configured to design at least any of a utility facility for supplying utilities to each of the tools and a utility facility for disposing of utilities discharged from each of the tools, based on the changes in the quantity of utilities consumed by all of the tools; and a memory configured to store the production information of the products, the result of the state analysis, information of the operational periods and the standby periods, and information of the changes in the quantity of utilities consumed by the tools.