A production system for garments or other products includes a plurality of work stations for performing a series of work operations in which parts of a garment or other product are progressively manufactured. A conveyorized transport system extends between the various work stations and the flow of work between the various stations is regulated by assigning class codes to each operation required for a garment and each operation available at the various work stations. The class codes for a given garment order are read sequentially from a data memory and as a requirement for each code or work operation arises in the course of producing the garment, the scheduler searches a second data memory to locate the work stations which offer the work operations corresponding to the class code sought. The scheduler then determines from among the available work stations the specific work station to which the garment pieces are sent for performing the required work operation.
A production management method includes the steps of: managing parallel production in a plurality of production lines to acquire an order model name and a production type name; acquiring a production record; acquiring order information; allocating products in process in the plurality of production lines in chronological order of delivery time based on the order information; reading production condition data or the like when allocation shortage arises; calculating a conversion-estimated number of good products based on a product yield; calculating a scheduled good product completion date for each new input lot in consideration of a customer authentication acquiring date and a temporary cease period; and allocating the new input lot to shortage of volume in process.
A system and method for managing the workflow for processing Service Orders among a variety of organizations within a telecommunications company. The system and method coordinates all of the tasks and activities related to order processing among the various entities within the telecommunications company. Workflows are used to model business procedures used for processing Service Orders. Each workflow comprises a plurality of workflow steps. Business process models are depicted as workflow diagrams. Upon receipt of a Service Order, an appropriate Work Plan is selected based on information within the Service Order. Each workflow step is assigned a Resource and is scheduled for completion. The Workflow steps are then placed in In-boxes associated with the selected Resource. Once the processing steps have been scheduled, a current work step is calculated. Notification messages are sent to the appropriate systems to notify them to begin activity associated with the current work step. The system is automatically notified when the current work step is complete, so that the next work step can be processed in a similar fashion. Detailed statistical information is maintained for audit and reporting purposes. Users log-on to remote workstations coupled with a company-wide Intranet or the like. From the remote workstations, users from various organizations view their In-boxes and other detailed information about Service Orders according to selectable requests. Workflow steps can be transferred and re-assigned using the remote workstations. Detailed statistical information is maintained for audit and reporting purposes. Reports reflecting the effectiveness of workforce management and work administration is obtained.
A controller of a conveyance system efficiently conveys parts. The controller includes an input/output interface receiving data related to the position and loading state of data of each vehicle; receiving carry-in/out requests from each job shop; and outputting carry-in/out instructions to each vehicle. The controller also includes a ROM storing a control program; a RAM storing job shop positional data, carry-in/out requests, vehicle loading state data; and a processing section computing values of a carriage instruction (e.g., origin, destination, carrier to be carried, carrying route) given to each vehicle using the carry-in/out request data from each job shop and the data stored in the RAM based on the program stored in the ROM.
Production schedules are executed for production machines and lots having high importance or priority from among lots being objects of production process by the production machines, and progress of production process is managed by a scheduler based on the production schedules. For those lots whose progresses are delayed, the production schedules are automatically adjusted by the scheduler so that the delays can be eliminated.
A machining system having a workpiece storage for storing plural workpieces to be machined each of which are machined in plural machining stages. A computer of the system memorizes first information indicating the membership of plural machine tools in plural machine groups suitable for plural different machinings, and second information indicating plural machining stages for machining each of the workpieces and machine groups which can carry out the machinings in respective machining stages. When one of the machine tools becomes empty, the computer finds out what kind of machining is required in the next machining stage of each workpiece so as to find a workpiece which can be machined by a machine group to which the empty machine tool belongs, and the found workpiece is then transferred to the empty machine tool.
