Patent ID: 7822499

Claim:
Production design support facility designed to be capable of performing a production design of a prescribed product present in a real space and formed by assembling prescribed components, by displaying the components in a virtual space, comprising: said production design support facility receives an input from a user to arrange a plurality of component objects by copying the component objects within a virtual space configured as a working space; cooperation management means for associating assembly procedure data showing combination of the assembly enabled components and assembling order thereof with data for each of the plurality of component objects so that each of the component objects are configured for display in the virtual space, said cooperation management means managing the component objects; object display means for displaying each of the component objects in the virtual space based on the data for each of the plurality of component objects; coordinate data acquisition means for acquiring coordinate data of each of the component objects arranged within the virtual space based on the received input from the user and displaying each of the component objects in the virtual space by the object display means; and element working time output means for outputting an element working time required for an assembly of one component object with other component object in the working space on the basis of a distance between these component objects arranged within the virtual space, said distance is computed from the acquired coordinate data, and assembly procedure data related to the objects and cooperatively managed by the cooperation means.