JPH10149376A - Design data management apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide a design data management device capable of extracting data having a good track record from a large number of accumulated design data groups. SOLUTION: A design data storage area 1 storing a large number of design data to be managed, an attribute data storage area 2 storing attribute data corresponding to each design data, and a predetermined design data for each of the design data Quality data collection means 3 and 4 for collecting quality data representing the evaluation results of the evaluated evaluation items
And a quality data storage area 5 in which the quality data is stored and the contents of which are appropriately updated by the quality data collection means 3 and 4, and a narrowing down ranking is performed based on the designated attribute data and the search condition of the quality data. And design data processing means 6 for extracting the design data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a design data management apparatus and method for searching a design data group stored in a data storage area and extracting proven design data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a design data management apparatus used in product development design, etc., as shown in FIG. 3, a large number of design data such as drawings are stored in a design data storage area 1, The attribute data such as the corresponding classification, creation date and time, and the keyword are appropriately registered and accumulated in the attribute data storage area 2 by the external input means 17, and the search of the attribute data designated by the input means 9 is performed at the time of design data search. The attribute data storage area group 2 is searched by the design data processing means 16 based on the condition, design data corresponding to the attribute data adapted to the search condition is extracted, and the output means 8 displays or outputs the design data.

[0003]

However, in the above-described conventional design data management apparatus, the probability that there is available design data increases as the data storage amount increases. At the time of search, it is not known whether the design data extracted under the condition has a good track record. Also, if there are many extracted design data,
Really necessary design data is buried in a lot of inconvenient design data, and it is difficult to extract the most effective data only with attribute data.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a design data management apparatus capable of extracting data having a good track record from a large number of accumulated design data groups.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a design data management apparatus according to the present invention has a design data storage area storing a large number of design data to be managed, and an attribute corresponding to each design data. An attribute data storage area storing data, quality data collecting means for collecting quality data representing an evaluation result by a predetermined evaluation item for each of the design data, and the quality data collecting means storing the quality data And a design data processing unit for extracting design data that has been narrowed down and ranked based on specified attribute data and search conditions for quality data. I do.

In the design data management method of the present invention, when design data is stored, design data is input to a design data storage area, attribute data corresponding to the design data is input to an attribute data storage area, and design data evaluation is performed. Sometimes, quality data representing an evaluation result based on a predetermined evaluation item for each of the design data is appropriately input to a quality data storage area by a quality data collection unit, and at the time of design data search, search of designated attribute data and quality data is performed. The design data is narrowed down and / or ranked and extracted by the design data processing means based on the condition.

According to the design data management apparatus and method of the present invention, the design data stored in the design data storage area has attribute data corresponding to each design data stored in the attribute data storage area. Since each evaluation item is evaluated by the quality data appropriately input to the quality data storage area, the design data is processed by the design data processing means based on the designated attribute data and the search condition of the quality data at the time of design data search. Narrow down,
Furthermore, it can be extracted by ranking.
Therefore, data having a good track record can be extracted from a large number of accumulated design data groups.

In the design data management device according to the present invention, the design data processing means is a design data reviewing means for deleting from the design data storage area the design data determined to be unneeded to be stored based on the specified quality data availability determination condition. Is preferable because the amount of design data that is not expected to be used in the design data storage area does not greatly increase, so that the capacity of the design data storage area and the design data search time can be saved.

In the design data management device of the present invention, the quality data collecting means converts the evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data into quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other. If it is configured to have quality data conversion means to perform, for example, qualitative evaluation data for each evaluation item of the product or intermediate product can be converted to quantitative quality data and quantitatively compared and evaluated, At the time of data search, it is possible to easily narrow down and rank the design data by the design data processing means.

[0010] In the design data management device of the present invention, the quality data collecting means is a measuring means for measuring and taking in quantitative evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data. Statistical processing means for statistically processing the evaluation data taken in by the measuring means to obtain quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other, whereby the measuring means evaluates each evaluation item of the product or intermediate product. This is preferable because it facilitates data acquisition, and the statistical processing means converts the evaluation data into statistically processed quality data, so that the reliability of narrowing down and ranking the design data by the design data processing means is improved. Can be.

[0011]

1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention.
This will be described below based on

The design data management device of the present invention stores a design data storage area 1 for storing a large number of design data such as drawings and specifications, and attribute data corresponding to each design data. An attribute data storage area 2, a manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 and a market quality data collecting means 4 for collecting quality data representing evaluation results based on evaluation items predetermined for each of the design data, and storing the quality data; A quality data storage area 5 whose contents are appropriately updated by the manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 and the market quality data collecting means 4, and narrowing down and / or ranking based on attribute data and quality data search conditions specified by the input means 9. A design data processing means 6 for extracting the attached design data and displaying or outputting the design data to the output means 8.

Here, the design data is data to be managed, such as drawings and specifications, which are designed and managed. The attribute data is data for managing design data such as product classification, keywords, creation date and time, and revision / deletion progress in accordance with individual design data by drawing numbers or the like. Evaluation items are items for which quality evaluation is predetermined for each design data. Specifically, evaluation items such as actual measurement values, yields, and costs of design characteristics at the manufacturing stage, and user-friendliness in the market. And evaluation items such as failure rate and sales volume. The quality data is data representing the quality of the design data based on the evaluation result of each evaluation item. The availability determination condition of quality data is a determination condition of quality data for which certain design data does not satisfy a certain determination criterion, and the corresponding design data is not expected to be used in the future and storage is determined to be unnecessary.

The design data processing means 6 includes an input means 9 for designating a processing instruction, a search condition, or a utilization judgment condition,
Output means 8 for displaying or outputting the result of processing according to the instruction or condition specification, and further temporarily stores a preliminary search result searched based on the search condition of the attribute data specified by the input means 9 Deleting attribute design result storage means 7 and design data determined to be unnecessary to be stored based on the specified usability determination condition from design data storage area 1;
A design data reviewing unit for updating attribute data in the attribute data storage area corresponding to the design data;

The manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 measures the actual measured values of the design characteristics of a product or an intermediate product at the manufacturing stage and inputs the measured values online, and the actual measured values, yield, and cost of the design characteristics which are difficult to input online. Input means 12 for manually inputting evaluation data such as data, etc .; and statistical processing means 1 for statistically processing input actual measurement values and evaluation data to obtain quality data.
And 3.

The market quality data collecting means 4 inputs input data 14 for evaluation data such as usability, failure rate, sales volume, etc. of the product in the market, and quantitatively determines the qualitative data of the input evaluation data. And quality data conversion means 15 for converting the data into quality data which can be compared with each other.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, one embodiment of the design data management method of the present invention includes four steps of design data accumulation, design data evaluation, design data review, and design data search. Have.

In the procedure for storing design data, the design data is input to the design data storage area 1 by the external input means 17,
Attribute data corresponding to the design data is input to external input means 1
7 to the attribute data storage area 2.

In the design data evaluation procedure, for each of the design data, the quality data indicating the evaluation result at the manufacturing stage by the manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 and the evaluation result in the market by the market quality data collecting means 4 are expressed. The quality data is appropriately input to the quality data storage area 5, and the contents of the quality data storage area 5 are updated as appropriate. At this time, in the manufacturing quality data collecting means 3, in the manufacturing stage, the measured values of the design characteristics of the product or the intermediate product are measured by the measuring means 11 and inputted online, and the measured values of the design characteristics which are difficult to input online, the yield, the cost And the like by manually inputting evaluation data such as
Statistical processing means 1
The statistical data is obtained in step 3 to obtain quality data. In the market quality data collection means 4, evaluation data such as usability, failure rate, and sales volume by the user of the product is manually input by the input means 14 in the market. Data conversion means 15 converts the data into quality data that can be quantitatively compared with each other.

In the procedure for reviewing the design data, the input means 9
The quality data of a certain evaluation item of a certain design data is extremely bad, or another design data that clearly includes a function of a certain design data and is superior to that design data, based on the utilization judgment condition of the quality data specified by If there is, the design data that is determined not to be required to be stored by the design data reviewing means 10 is deleted from the design data storage area 1, and the attribute data in the attribute data storage area 2 is updated based on the progress.

In the design data search procedure, first, a preliminary search result searched based on the search condition of the attribute data designated by the input means 9 is temporarily stored in the attribute search result storage means 7. Next, the preliminary search result is displayed on the output means 8 to determine the final search condition while examining the design data. The design data is further determined based on the attribute data and quality data search conditions specified from the preliminary search result. The design data is extracted by narrowing down and / or ranking by the processing means 6 and displayed or output by the output means 8. As described above, the preliminary search is performed prior to the search, and the preliminary search result is temporarily stored in the attribute search result storage unit 7, thereby reducing the load of the narrowing down and / or the ranking process in the design data processing unit 6. It can also be reduced and run faster.

According to the design data management apparatus and method of the present invention, as described above, data having a good track record can be extracted from a large number of accumulated design data groups.

In the above-described design data management apparatus, if the processing capability of the design data processing means 6 is sufficiently large, it is not particularly necessary to provide the attribute search result storage means 7.

If the capacity of the design data storage area 1 is sufficient, the design data reviewing means 10 may not be provided. In this case, the fact is recorded in the attribute data corresponding to the design data determined not to be stored. , May be configured to be excluded from ordinary search targets.

The manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 may be provided with a quality data converting means 15 for converting the inputted qualitative evaluation data into quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other. In addition, statistical processing means 13 for statistically processing the input quantitative evaluation data to obtain quality data may be provided. Further, the manufacturing quality data collecting means 3 is not provided with the measuring means 11 and the statistical processing means 13 or the market quality data collecting means 4 is not provided with the quality data converting means 15, and both are converted in advance before input. You may be comprised so that the input quality data may be input.

There may be a plurality of manufacturing quality data collecting means 3, market quality data collecting means 4, external input means 17 and input means 9, and the input means 9 may be configured to also serve as the external input means 17. Good.

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According to the design data management apparatus and method of the present invention, the design data stored in the design data storage area has attribute data corresponding to each design data stored in the attribute data storage area. Each evaluation item is evaluated based on the quality data appropriately input to the quality data storage area by the collection means. Therefore, at the time of design data search, the design data is designed by the design data processing means based on the designated attribute data and the quality data search conditions. Narrow down your data,
Furthermore, it can be extracted by ranking.
Therefore, data having a good track record can be extracted from a large number of accumulated design data groups.

In the design data management device according to the present invention, the design data processing means is a design data reviewing means for deleting design data determined to be unnecessary to be stored from the design data storage area based on the specified quality data availability determination condition. Is preferable because the amount of design data that is not expected to be used in the design data storage area does not greatly increase, so that the capacity of the design data storage area and the design data search time can be saved.

In the design data management device of the present invention, the quality data collecting means converts the evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data into quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other. If it is configured to have quality data conversion means to perform, for example, qualitative evaluation data for each evaluation item of the product or intermediate product can be converted to quantitative quality data and quantitatively compared and evaluated, At the time of data search, it is possible to easily narrow down and rank the design data by the design data processing means.

In the design data management device of the present invention, the quality data collecting means is a measuring means for measuring and taking in quantitative evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data. And statistical processing means for statistically processing the evaluation data taken in by the measuring means to obtain quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other, so that the measuring means evaluates each evaluation item of the product or the intermediate product. It is preferable because the data can be easily taken in, and the statistical processing means converts the evaluation data into statistically processed quality data, so that the reliability of narrowing down and ranking the design data by the design data processing means is improved. Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a design data management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a design data management method according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Design data storage area 2 Attribute data storage area 3 Manufacturing quality data collection means 4 Market quality data collection means 5 Quality data storage area 6 Design data processing means 10 Design data review means 11 Measurement means 13 Statistical processing means 15 Quality data conversion means

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A design data storage area for storing a large number of design data to be managed, an attribute data storage area for storing attribute data corresponding to individual design data, Quality data collection means for collecting quality data representing the evaluation results by the evaluated items, a quality data storage area for storing the quality data and appropriately updating the content by the quality data collection means, and designated attribute data and A design data processing unit for extracting design data that has been narrowed down and / or ranked based on quality data search conditions. 2. The design data reviewing means according to claim 1, wherein said design data processing means has a design data reviewing means for deleting design data determined to be unnecessary to be stored from a design data storage area based on a specified quality data availability determination condition. Design data management device. 3. The quality data collecting means includes quality data converting means for converting evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data into quality data which can be quantitatively compared with each other. The design data management device according to claim 1. 4. The quality data collecting means is a measuring means for measuring quantitative evaluation data corresponding to each evaluation item of a product or an intermediate product manufactured based on the design data, and the evaluation measured by the measuring means. 4. The design data management device according to claim 1, further comprising a statistical processing unit for statistically processing data to obtain quality data that can be quantitatively compared with each other. 5. When design data is stored, design data is input to a design data storage area, and attribute data corresponding to the design data is input to an attribute data storage area. At the time of design data evaluation, predetermined design data is predetermined. The quality data representing the evaluation result of the specified evaluation item is appropriately input to the quality data storage area by the quality data collection means, and when the design data is searched, the design data is designed by the design data processing means based on the designated attribute data and the search condition of the quality data. A design data management method characterized by extracting data by narrowing down and / or ranking.