This application discloses a system implementing tools and mechanisms to generate a structured bill of materials for a wire harness described in a harness design, identify variable parameter corresponding to a physical characteristic for a first sub-assembly in the structured bill of materials for the wire harness, and substitute the first sub-assembly in the structured bill of materials for the wire harness with a second sub-assembly based, at least in part, on the variable parameter for the first sub-assembly.

A first storage unit stores a main component table holding design information of products. A second storage unit stores a sub-component table holding the design information of the products and an update deadline of the design information for each predetermined unit constituted by products manufactured on the basis of the same design information. A first determination unit determines whether or not the main component table has been changed. A second determination unit determines whether or not a present date is before the update deadline. The second determination unit reflects contents of the change performed on the main component table on the sub-component table in a case where the main component table has been changed and the present date is before the update deadline.

According to an embodiment, a material recommendation apparatus includes an extractor, a creator, a matcher and a recommender. The extractor extracts information about a substance as a candidate for a material for an industrial product, a property of the substance, and a report time of the property from an electronic document. The creator creates, for each substance, time series data in which the property is associated with the report time. The matcher matches the time series data with a pattern. The recommender recommends, as the material, a substance corresponding to time series data that matches the pattern.

A method includes receiving a given work product plan specifying a set of constituents to be used in forming a given work product, each constituent having one or more properties, the given work product being associated with a given class of work products. The method also includes obtaining information associated with one or more existing work product plans for one or more existing work products in the given class from a knowledge database and selecting proportions of the set of constituents to be used in forming the given work product based at least in part on distributions of characteristics associated with types of constituents used in forming existing work products in the given class and of properties of constituents used in forming existing work products in the given class. The method further includes generating an updated work product plan for the given work product specifying the selected proportions of the set of constituents to be used in forming the given work product.

Provided is an intelligent manufacturing system. The intelligent manufacturing system includes a demonstration line site layer, a network transmission and cloud service layer and a display terminal layer. The demonstration line site layer includes a production line and an information collection subsystem. The production line is configured to produce a product, and the information collection subsystem is configured to collect production information of the production line. The network transmission and cloud service layer is configured to acquire and transmit the production information collected by the information collection subsystem. The display terminal layer is configured to receive and display the production information.

A production planning system includes: an influence degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of influence which is applied on a probability distribution of a workload in a predetermined production process of a product by determining an undetermined design specification item of the product; and a display control unit that causes the design specification item and the degree of influence to be displayed in association with each other.

A resource management system (39) manages a supply of resource material and/or resource items to a plurality of at least two additive manufacturing machines (3) for additive manufacturing. The resource management system (39) includes a control unit (41) that is configured to receive a signal indicative of a demand for resource material and/or resource items of any of the additive manufacturing machines (3). The control unit (41) is configured to schedule the supply of demanded resource material and/or resource items according to a predetermined prioritization scheme for resolving demand conflicts.

A kit enables an efficient and contamination-free method of changing a resin used in a three dimensional printer from a first resin to a second resin. The three dimensional printer includes a print engine and a receptacle. The kit includes a conduit assembly and a resin container. The conduit assembly includes a fluid inlet configured to be affixed in the receptacle in an upward orientation, a pump head configured to be coupled to a motorized pump actuator in the receptacle, a first conduit coupling the fluid inlet to the pump head, a fluid outlet configured to supply resin to the print engine, and a second conduit coupling the pump head to the fluid outlet.

An injection molding management system includes: a molding information storage unit configured to store molding information on the usage of each type of molding material used in forming product molding, for each kind of molding; a remaining product quantity calculator configured to calculate the remaining product quantity of each kind of molding; a total usage calculator configured to calculate the total usage of each type of molding material used in the injection molding machines, based on the molding information of each kind of molding and the remaining product quantity of molding; a stock quantity storage unit configured to store the stock quantity of molding material; and an order quantity calculator configured to calculate the order quantity of each type of molding material, based on the total usage and the stock quantity of the molding material.

A manufacturing process management (MPM) computer device is provided. The MPM computer device is configured to store a first version of a product and a second version of the product. The second version includes the first plurality of parts, the second plurality of parts, and a third plurality of parts associated with the plug. The first location is between the first plurality of locations and the second plurality of locations. The MPM computer device is also configured to calculate a first numbering system, calculate a second numbering system for a third plurality of locations associated with the third plurality of parts, determine a first grid overlay for the first version of the product based on the first numbering system, determine a second grid overlay for the second version of the product based on the first numbering system and the second numbering system.