WO2020053991A1 - Manufacturing system design assistance apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a manufacturing system design assistance apparatus characterized by comprising: a manufacturing requirement setting unit (111) which sets manufacturing requirements when a product is manufactured in a manufacturing system; a manufacturing system design plan generating unit (21) which generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements; an evaluation index setting unit (112) which sets an evaluation index of the manufacturing system design plan; a manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit (22) which calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan on the basis of the evaluation index; and an evaluation result display unit (121) which displays an evaluation result. Thus, the present invention can generate a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements, and compare and display the evaluation result of the design plan.

Description

Manufacturing system design support equipment

The present invention relates to a manufacturing system design support device that generates a design plan of a manufacturing system for manufacturing a product and presents the evaluation result.

In the related art, for example, as in Patent Literature 1, in order to generate a suitable process design plan in which a process organization and a process layout are associated with each other, work element information is required for a production process of producing a plurality of similar products. A process design apparatus for repeatedly updating a process design by a process organization generating means and a process layout generating means based on equipment information, worker information, and the like, and a process layout evaluation value.

JP 2004-355147 A

In such a manufacturing system design support apparatus, one set of process organization and process layout that satisfies a preset evaluation target value at the time of manufacturing execution can be generated. However, it has not been possible to present a plurality of suitable manufacturing system designs in terms of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), including the start-up and execution of the manufacturing system.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and is capable of generating and comparing a plurality of manufacturing system design plans that satisfy manufacturing requirements. It is an object of the present invention to display a list of evaluation results at the time of start-up of a manufacturing system and at the time of manufacturing execution, so that a more suitable manufacturing system design from a factory management viewpoint can be determined by a simulation before actual machine operation.

A manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the present invention includes a manufacturing requirement setting unit that sets manufacturing requirements when manufacturing a product in a manufacturing system, a manufacturing system design plan generating unit that generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements, An evaluation index setting unit that sets an evaluation index of the manufacturing system design plan, a manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index, and an evaluation result display unit that displays the evaluation result A manufacturing system design support apparatus characterized by the following.

According to the manufacturing system design support apparatus of the present invention, a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements can be generated, and the evaluation results of the design plan can be compared and displayed.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a manufacturing system design support device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an image diagram of a screen for setting an evaluation index of the manufacturing system design support device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a logic of the manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is an image diagram of a screen displaying an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design support device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is an image figure which shows learning of the design rule of the manufacturing system design support apparatus by Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a manufacturing system design support device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The manufacturing system design support apparatus includes an input / output unit 1 serving as a user interface and an arithmetic processing unit 2 for performing internal processing. The arithmetic processing unit 2 includes a CPU (central processing unit) and a storage device such as a hard disk. The input / output unit 1 includes an input unit 11 and an output unit 12. The manufacturing requirement setting unit 111 of the input unit 11 sets manufacturing requirements when manufacturing a product in the manufacturing system, and the evaluation index setting unit 112 of the input unit 11 sets an evaluation index of a manufacturing system design plan.

The manufacturing requirement setting unit 111 includes a manufacturing requirement including at least one of a specification of a product manufactured by the manufacturing system, a specification of a production facility which is a component of the manufacturing system, and a production plan for manufacturing the product using the manufacturing system. Set. Further, the evaluation index setting unit 112 sets one or more evaluation indexes for evaluating a design plan of the manufacturing system.

FIG. 2 is an image diagram of a screen for setting an evaluation index of the manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As an evaluation index at the time of startup, for example, required time, required man-hours, and required cost can be selected. Further, as the evaluation index at the time of operation, for example, it is possible to select, for example, total facility efficiency, net facility efficiency, non-defective product rate, delivery date compliance rate, facility effectiveness, and labor productivity. As the predetermined evaluation period, a start date and an end date can be selected.

The evaluation index setting unit 112 sets the content of the evaluation index on a setting screen on which a type of evaluation index value can be selected and a start date and an end date of the evaluation target period can be specified as shown in FIG. 2, for example.

The arithmetic processing unit 2 includes a manufacturing system design plan generation unit 21 and a manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit 22. The manufacturing system design plan generation unit 21 generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements, and the manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit 22 calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index. The evaluation result display unit 121 of the output unit 12 displays the evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit 22.

The manufacturing system design plan generation unit 21 includes a manufacturing system design plan extraction unit 211, an evaluation result storage unit 212, a manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213, and a manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214. The manufacturing system design plan extracting unit 211 extracts a manufacturing system design plan from the manufacturing requirements set by the manufacturing requirement setting unit 111 and the evaluation indexes set by the evaluation index setting unit 112. Further, the manufacturing system design plan extracting unit 211 extracts a manufacturing system design plan using the manufacturing system design rule of the manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214 that holds the learning result of the manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213 as a manufacturing system design rule. I do. In other words, the manufacturing system design plan extracting unit 211 extracts the manufacturing system design plan with reference to the manufacturing system design rules.

The manufacturing system design plan generation unit 21 generates one or more manufacturing system design plans that satisfy the manufacturing requirements, and the manufacturing system design plan extraction unit 211 extracts one or more manufacturing system design plans in consideration of the evaluation index. .

The evaluation result storage unit 212 receives a plurality of combinations of the manufacturing requirements, the evaluation index, the manufacturing system design plan, and the evaluation result from the manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit 22 and stores them. The manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213 learns a rule for deriving a highly evaluated manufacturing system design plan for a set of a manufacturing requirement and an evaluation index based on the combination result stored in the evaluation result storage unit 212. The manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214 stores the learning result of the manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213 as a manufacturing system design rule.

The manufacturing system design plan evaluating unit 22 includes a manufacturing system evaluation calculating unit 221, a manufacturing system start-up evaluating unit 222, a manufacturing system execution evaluating unit 223, a production scheduler 224, a production simulator 225, and a control system interface 226. Here, the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223 includes a production scheduler 224 that performs an operation plan of a manufacturing facility that manufactures a product and an arrangement plan of workers, a production simulator 225 that simulates a manufacturing facility and a production by a worker, and a manufacturing facility. The production execution is evaluated by using at least one of the control system interfaces 226 that obtains the production performance data.

The evaluation index setting unit 112 sets a start-up evaluation index for evaluating the start-up work and a manufacturing system execution evaluation index for evaluating the production execution during operation, and transmits them to the manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221. Further, the manufacturing system design plan extracting section 211 extracts the manufacturing system design plan with reference to the manufacturing system design rule, and transmits the extracted manufacturing system design plan to the manufacturing system evaluation calculating section 221.

The manufacturing system start-up evaluation section 222 evaluates start-up of the manufacturing system based on the start-up evaluation index. The production system execution evaluation unit 223 includes a production scheduler 224 that performs an operation plan of a production facility that manufactures a product and a placement plan of workers, a production simulator 225 that simulates production by the production facilities and workers, and a production record of the production facility. Manufacturing execution is evaluated using at least one of the control system interfaces 226 that acquire data. Further, the evaluation result display unit 121 ranks and displays the manufacturing system design plans based on the evaluation index in a predetermined period.

The manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221 ranks the evaluation results of the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit 222 and the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223 by using the evaluation index in a predetermined period according to the evaluation index, and evaluates the evaluation result display unit 121. Send to

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the logic of the manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is realized as an application program on a computer on which logic is mounted, and outputs a design plan of a manufacturing system suitable for given conditions.

The manufacturing system design support apparatus starts from step S1, inputs a manufacturing requirement in the manufacturing requirement setting unit 111 in step S2, and inputs an evaluation index in the evaluation index setting unit 112 in step S3.

(4) In step S4, the existence of a design rule capable of deriving a manufacturing system design plan from a set of manufacturing requirements and evaluation indexes is confirmed. If there is a design rule in step S4, the process proceeds to step S5. If there is no design rule, the process proceeds to step S6. In step S5, a design plan to which the design rule is applied is generated. More specifically, a manufacturing system design plan is generated from a set of manufacturing requirements and evaluation indices based on design rules. After step S5, the process proceeds to step S7.

に て Generate an initial design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements in step S6. In other words, an initial design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements is generated as a manufacturing system design plan. After step S6, the process proceeds to step S7.

(4) After the production system design plan is generated in step S5 or step S6, the design plan is evaluated and calculated in step S7. More specifically, an evaluation based on the evaluation index input in step S3 for the manufacturing system design plan is calculated.

(4) In step S8, the calculation result of the evaluation is displayed as the evaluation result, and subsequently, in step S9, the evaluation result is recorded. In step S10, a design rule is learned based on an evaluation result that a manufacturing system design plan is derived from a combination of a manufacturing requirement and an evaluation index. In step S11, the design rules stored in the manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214 are updated.

{Circle over (4)} If the manufacturing system design plan is not adopted in step S12, the process returns to step S2, where the manufacturing requirements and the evaluation index are changed as necessary, and the manufacturing system design plan is generated again. When the manufacturing system design plan is adopted in step S12 with reference to the evaluation result in step S8, the logic is ended in step S13.

The specifications of a product manufactured by the manufacturing system include at least one of the material, dimensions, function, performance, component configuration, and manufacturing process of the product to be manufactured. For example, dimensions that represent the material of the product and the three-dimensional shape of the product Includes data, accuracy tolerances of dimensional data, a list of parts that make up the product, the process of manufacturing the product, and the like.

The specifications of the production equipment, which is a component of the manufacturing system, include at least one of the dimensions, functions, performances, and component configurations of the equipment used for production of the product, and represent, for example, the three-dimensional shape of the production equipment. It includes dimensional data, installation area of production equipment, types of processing that the production equipment can handle, processing accuracy of the production equipment, and the like.

(3) As means for expressing a three-dimensional shape corresponding to a product or a production facility, three-dimensional CAD data stored as digital data may be used. The production plan is a plan for the types and quantities of products manufactured using the manufacturing system during a certain manufacturing period such as monthly, weekly, or daily.

(4) The evaluation index includes an evaluation index at the time of starting the manufacturing system and an evaluation index at the time of operation when the design proposal of the manufacturing system is applied. As the evaluation index at the time of start-up, for example, time, man-hours, costs, and the like required for starting the manufacturing system can be selected.

As the evaluation index at the time of operation, for example, KPI (Key Performance Indicator) index defined in ISO22400, such as the total equipment efficiency of a factory, net equipment efficiency, and the percentage of non-defective products, the evaluation of the delivery date compliance rate of products similar to KPI, etc. At least one index value of the index can be selected. As the evaluation target period, a predetermined target period is set according to the start and end dates of the period according to the production plan.

The manufacturing system design plan is a design plan including at least one of the configuration of the production facility, the layout of the production facility, and the arrangement of the workers. The manufacturing system design plan is evaluated by the manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit 22 based on the evaluation index. The manufacturing system evaluation calculating unit 221 calculates an evaluation value for each evaluation index for the manufacturing system design plan.

Evaluation values are calculated using the evaluation results of the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit 222 and the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223. The evaluation value calculated by the manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221 is displayed on the evaluation result display unit 121 of the output unit 12.

For example, when two types of products, product a and product b, are manufactured by a manufacturing system, a manufacturing method including one or more manufacturing processes for the product a and the product b is defined. The manufacturing process is performed by using any one or more of production facilities having a manufacturable function and performance.

The manufacturing system design plan is defined by the layout of production equipment and the arrangement of workers, which are required to achieve the production plan for the product a and the product b. For the defined manufacturing system design plan, an evaluation value is calculated by the manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221. The calculation of the evaluation value by the manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221 uses the evaluation by the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit 222 and the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223.

(4) The manufacturing system start-up evaluation section 222 evaluates the work at the start of the manufacturing system. When starting up a manufacturing system, for example, purchasing new production equipment, moving or discarding unnecessary production equipment, changing the layout of production equipment, mechanically adjusting production equipment, designing and developing a control program for production equipment And operations necessary for operating the manufacturing system, such as checking the operation of the production equipment.

In the evaluation by the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit 222, a numerical value for the evaluation index selected by the evaluation index setting unit 112 is calculated from the time, man-hours, and cost required for starting the manufacturing system in consideration of each of these operations. .

The manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223 evaluates the operation of the manufacturing system during production execution. The operation during the production execution of the manufacturing system is to execute the production based on the production plan by the operation by the production equipment and the operation by the operator. The work performed by the production facility includes, for example, work performed based on a program stored in a control device of the production facility, such as processing by a machine tool, transport by a transport device, and inspection by an inspection device.

The work performed by the worker is directly performed by a worker at the manufacturing site, for example, picking a part, fixing a jig or a processing target part to a machine tool, manually assembling a part, setting conditions for an inspection device, and the like. Work is included.

According to the evaluation by the manufacturing system execution evaluating unit 223, when the production execution of the manufacturing system is operated by the work by the donation equipment and the work by the worker, the total equipment efficiency of the factory, the net equipment efficiency, the non-defective product rate, the product A numerical value for the evaluation index selected by the evaluation index setting unit 112 from the evaluation indexes such as the delivery date compliance rate is calculated.

For the calculation of the evaluation value, the result of simulating the production schedule calculated by the production scheduler 224 with the production simulator 225 simulating the manufacturing system design plan in a virtual space is used by allocating production equipment and workers based on the production plan. I do. To determine the production schedule, a production scheduler 224 generally sold as a software product can be used.

(4) When a manufacturing system based on the manufacturing system design plan is actually constructed and manufacturing based on the production scheduler 224 is performed, the actual manufacturing system is used instead of the production simulator 225. In this case, the evaluation value is calculated by acquiring the production result data from the control device of the production facility via the control system interface 226.

The manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit 221 calculates an evaluation value for one or more evaluation indexes for each of one or more manufacturing system design plans based on the evaluation results of the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit 222 and the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit 223. Output to the evaluation result display unit 121.

FIG. 4 is an image diagram of a screen displaying an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. For each design proposal, for example, the time at start-up, the number of man-hours and costs, the overall equipment efficiency and the delivery date compliance rate during operation, and the overall evaluation are shown as evaluation results. FIG. 4 shows an example in which the start-up and operation-time selection items are selected in accordance with the items selected in FIG.

(4) As shown in FIG. 4, the evaluation result display unit 121 outputs the evaluation result in a table format in which a vertical axis indicates a manufacturing system design plan and a horizontal axis indicates an evaluation index. As the evaluation index on the horizontal axis, the evaluation index at startup and the evaluation index during operation set by the evaluation index setting unit 112 are displayed. As the evaluation result, an evaluation value for the evaluation index on the horizontal axis is displayed. As a comprehensive evaluation of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index at start-up and the operation evaluation index used as the evaluation index on the horizontal axis, the average value of the evaluation order between the manufacturing system design plans is calculated. Display in addition to the head of the axis evaluation index. Further, the manufacturing system design plan to be evaluated can be sorted in the order of the evaluation value for each evaluation index listed on the horizontal axis. This makes it possible to generate a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements, and to compare and display the evaluation results.

As described above, a manufacturing requirement setting unit that sets manufacturing requirements when manufacturing products in a manufacturing system, a manufacturing system design plan generation unit that generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements, and an evaluation of the manufacturing system design plan A manufacturing system design support apparatus comprising: an evaluation index setting unit that sets an index; a manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index; and an evaluation result display unit that displays the evaluation result Therefore, a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements can be generated, and the evaluation results of the design plan can be compared and displayed.

The evaluation index setting unit sets a start-up evaluation index for evaluating the start-up work and a production system execution evaluation index for evaluating the production execution during operation. A manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit that evaluates start-up of a manufacturing system based on an index, a manufacturing system execution evaluation unit that evaluates manufacturing execution based on a manufacturing system execution evaluation index, a manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit, and a manufacturing system execution The evaluation result of the evaluation unit is calculated.

Further, the manufacturing system design plan generating section extracts the manufacturing system design plan from the manufacturing requirements and the evaluation index, and the manufacturing system design plan extracting section extracts the manufacturing result, the evaluation index, and the combination result of the manufacturing system design plan and the evaluation result. A plurality of evaluation result storage units, a manufacturing system design rule learning unit for learning rules for deriving a manufacturing system design plan with high evaluation for a set of manufacturing requirements and an evaluation index based on the combination result, and a manufacturing system design rule A manufacturing system design rule storage unit that stores a learning result of the learning unit as a manufacturing system design rule.

(4) The manufacturing system design plan extracting section extracts the manufacturing system design plan with reference to the manufacturing system design rules. Further, the evaluation result display unit ranks and displays the manufacturing system design proposals by the evaluation index in a predetermined period.

The production system execution evaluation unit includes a production scheduler that performs an operation plan of a production facility that manufactures a product and a placement plan of workers, a production simulator that simulates production by production facilities and workers, and production performance data of production facilities. Is evaluated using at least one of the control system interfaces that obtain

Embodiment 2 FIG.
Embodiment 2 has the same configuration as Embodiment 1. The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213 uses reinforcement learning and learns a neural network.

For the learning in the manufacturing system design rule learning unit 213, for example, reinforcement learning can be used. Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that deals with a problem in which an agent in a certain environment observes the current state and decides what action to take. Agents get rewards from the environment for choosing actions. Reinforcement learning learns ways to get the most reward through a series of actions. The algorithm of reinforcement learning is an algorithm similar to dynamic programming. Reinforcement learning is unsupervised learning that updates future reward estimates by experiencing a set of states and actions in order to learn suitable actions in a certain state. There is known a method of causing a user to experience the simulation.

The combination of the manufacturing requirements set by the manufacturing requirement setting unit 111 with the current layout of the manufacturing system and the arrangement of workers is given by “state”, and the change of the layout of the manufacturing system and the arrangement of workers is given by “action”. As a result of the “action” of the period, the reinforcement learning in which the evaluation result calculated based on the evaluation index is set as the “reward” is executed. In the learning process of reinforcement learning, when an action is performed, the state changes. As a result, various combinations of the state and the action are experienced, and a reward is obtained, whereby the evaluation of the combination is determined.

By executing the learning process of reinforcement learning using the production simulator 225, an action of changing or not changing the layout of the manufacturing system and the layout of the workers to different layouts and different layouts with respect to the manufacturing requirements, respectively. Is obtained. The rules obtained by the reinforcement learning in this manner are stored in the manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214.

When the layout of the manufacturing system and the arrangement of the workers are applied to the actual factory, the evaluation is calculated based on the evaluation index from the data obtained through the control system interface 226, reflected in the reinforcement learning, and stored in the manufacturing system design rule. It can be stored in the unit 214.

Based on the rules stored in the manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214, the manufacturing system design plan extracting unit 211 extracts the evaluation indices set by the evaluation index setting unit 112 from the manufacturing requirements set by the manufacturing requirement setting unit 111. Extract a manufacturing system design plan that is highly evaluated.

In addition, if reinforcement learning is repeatedly executed and cases of a combination of the output of a suitable manufacturing system design plan with respect to the input of the manufacturing requirement and the evaluation index can be collected, a neural network that obtains an output from the input using the collected example as a teacher signal is obtained. Can be learned.

FIG. 5 is an image diagram showing learning of design rules of the manufacturing system design support apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and is a diagram showing an image of a neural network to be learned. The items of the manufacturing requirement and the item of the evaluation index are set as the input of the neural network, and the item of the previous term manufacturing system design plan is set as the output of the neural network. The neural network is learned by giving a plurality of examples of the manufacturing system design plan suitable for the combination of the manufacturing requirement and the evaluation index to the neural network as a teacher signal.

学習 The learning result of the neural network can also be stored in the manufacturing system design rule storage unit 214 as a rule, and can be used for extracting the manufacturing system design plan by the manufacturing system design plan extraction unit 211.

As described above, a manufacturing requirement setting unit that sets manufacturing requirements when manufacturing products in a manufacturing system, a manufacturing system design plan generation unit that generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies manufacturing requirements, and an evaluation of the manufacturing system design plan A manufacturing system design support apparatus comprising: an evaluation index setting unit that sets an index; a manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index; and an evaluation result display unit that displays the evaluation result Therefore, a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements can be generated, and the evaluation results of the design plan can be compared and displayed.

The evaluation index setting unit sets a start-up evaluation index for evaluating the start-up work and a production system execution evaluation index for evaluating the production execution during operation. A manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit that evaluates start-up of a manufacturing system based on an index, a manufacturing system execution evaluation unit that evaluates manufacturing execution based on a manufacturing system execution evaluation index, a manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit, and a manufacturing system execution The evaluation result of the evaluation unit is calculated.

Further, the manufacturing system design plan generating section extracts a manufacturing system design plan from the manufacturing requirements and the evaluation index, and a combination of the manufacturing requirements, the evaluation index, the manufacturing system design plan, and the evaluation result. A plurality of evaluation result storage units, a manufacturing system design rule learning unit for learning rules for deriving a manufacturing system design plan with high evaluation for a set of manufacturing requirements and an evaluation index based on the combination result, and a manufacturing system design rule A manufacturing system design rule storage unit that stores a learning result of the learning unit as a manufacturing system design rule.

(4) The manufacturing system design plan extracting section extracts the manufacturing system design plan with reference to the manufacturing system design rules. Further, the evaluation result display unit ranks and displays the manufacturing system design proposals by the evaluation index in a predetermined period.

The production system execution evaluation unit includes a production scheduler that performs an operation plan of a production facility that manufactures a product and a placement plan of workers, a production simulator that simulates production by production facilities and workers, and production performance data of production facilities. Is evaluated using at least one of the control system interfaces that obtain

1 {input / output section, 2} arithmetic processing section, 11} input means, 12 # output means, 21} manufacturing system design plan generation section, 22 {manufacturing system design plan evaluation section, 111} manufacturing requirement setting section, 112 # evaluation index setting section, 121 # evaluation result display Section, 211 {production system design plan extraction section, 212} evaluation result storage section, 213} production system design rule learning section, 214} production system design rule storage section, 221} production system evaluation calculation section, 222} production system start-up evaluation section, 223} production system Execution evaluation unit, 224 production scheduler, 225 production simulator, 226 control system interface.

Claims (7)

A manufacturing requirement setting unit for setting manufacturing requirements when manufacturing products in the manufacturing system;
A manufacturing system design plan generation unit that generates a manufacturing system design plan that satisfies the manufacturing requirements,
An evaluation index setting unit that sets an evaluation index of the manufacturing system design plan,
A manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation result of the manufacturing system design plan based on the evaluation index,
A manufacturing system design support device, comprising: an evaluation result display unit for displaying the evaluation result. The manufacturing system design support apparatus according to claim 1,
The evaluation index setting unit sets a start-up evaluation index for evaluating the start-up work and a manufacturing system execution evaluation index for evaluating the production execution when operated.
The manufacturing system design plan evaluation unit is a manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit that evaluates start-up of the manufacturing system based on the start-up evaluation index, and a manufacturing system that evaluates manufacturing execution based on the manufacturing system execution evaluation index. A manufacturing system design support apparatus comprising: an execution evaluation unit; and a manufacturing system evaluation calculation unit that calculates the evaluation results of the manufacturing system start-up evaluation unit and the manufacturing system execution evaluation unit. The manufacturing system design support apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The manufacturing system design plan generation unit,
A manufacturing system design plan extraction unit that extracts a manufacturing system design plan from the manufacturing requirements and the evaluation index,
An evaluation result storage unit that stores a plurality of combination results of the manufacturing requirement, the evaluation index, the manufacturing system design plan, and the evaluation result,
A manufacturing system design rule learning unit that learns a rule for deriving the manufacturing system design plan having a high evaluation for a set of the manufacturing requirement and the evaluation index based on the combination result;
A manufacturing system design rule storage unit for storing a learning result of the manufacturing system design rule learning unit as a manufacturing system design rule. The manufacturing system design support device according to claim 3, wherein
The manufacturing system design support device, wherein the manufacturing system design plan extracting unit extracts a manufacturing system design plan with reference to the manufacturing system design rule. The manufacturing system design support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
The manufacturing system design support apparatus, wherein the evaluation result display unit ranks and displays the manufacturing system design plans based on the evaluation index in a predetermined period. The manufacturing system design support apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 5, which is dependent on claim 2 and claim 2,
The production system execution evaluation unit includes a production scheduler that performs an operation plan and a placement plan of a manufacturing facility that manufactures the product, a production simulator that simulates production by the manufacturing facility and the worker, and a production simulator. A manufacturing system design support device, wherein the manufacturing execution is evaluated using at least one of a control system interface for acquiring production performance data. The manufacturing system design support apparatus according to any one of claims 3 and 4, and claims 5 and 6, which are dependent on claim 3.
A manufacturing system design support device, wherein the manufacturing system design rule learning unit uses reinforcement learning.

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