There are provided a repair determination section that determines, based on failure information on the facility for manufacturing a product, a repair time required to repair the facility, and a recovery plan creation section that creates a recovery plan in accordance with a predetermined production evaluation indicator, based on the repair time and production information on a line with the failed facility, one or more other facilities, and on one or more other lines.

A system for monitoring maintenance for manufacturing apparatuses in a facility is provided. The system includes at least one manufacturing apparatus, the manufacturing apparatus including an RF identification tag and a module, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive, from the module, operational status information that indicates time periods during which the manufacturing apparatus is in operation, determine a cumulative time duration of operation for the manufacturing apparatus, retrieve a predetermined maintenance interval for the manufacturing apparatus, determine whether the cumulative time duration of operation exceeds the predetermined maintenance interval, and in response to a determination that the cumulative time duration of operation exceeds the predetermined maintenance interval, i) output a signal that causes the manufacturing apparatus to discontinue operation, and ii) cause instructions for completing a required maintenance procedure to be displayed on a display device in communication with the control system.

An alert notification device of a dental processing machine includes a receiver, a first extractor, and a notifier. The receiver receives error information from the dental processing machine. The first extractor extracts from the error information received by the receiver, as first extracted error information, error information that occurred in a predetermined first time. The notifier notifies a management device to be used by a maintenance company to perform maintenance of the dental processing machine, of an alert concerning the first extracted error information.

A work assistance device that assists works for resolving a plurality of problems for simultaneously occurring in a system having a plurality of devices for producing products, the work assistance device including a processor configured to acquire, at occurrence of the plurality of problems, actual historical information on a processing time desired to previously produce the product in each of the devices; perform maximum a posteriori probability estimation of a processing time desired to produce the product in each of the devices, based on prior distribution stored in a storage unit and the acquired actual historical information on the processing time; and determine a work priority order of each of the devices based on the estimated processing times, and output the work priority order.

A resource allocation system for a production facility stores: a production schedule assigning production tasks to machines of the production facility, each production task comprising a production time window during which a machine is occupied with the production task; a maintenance schedule assigning maintenance tasks to service resources, each maintenance task comprising a maintenance time window during which a machine is occupied with the maintenance task; and a maintenance plan comprising maintenance rules for generating maintenance tasks, the maintenance rules at least comprising a scheduling rule from which a time after which a machine has to be maintained is derivable. The resource allocation system is configured for determining maintenance tasks for machines based on the maintenance rules, wherein the time window of a maintenance task for a machine is determined from a previous maintenance task, the scheduling rule for the machine and the production tasks for the machine, such that the time window of the maintenance task does not overlap with the production tasks.

A method for maintaining, commissioning and checking systems in warehouses, where a service technician has sight of the system in question and, by way of a mobile computer, makes wireless contact with the controller of the system in order to take control thereof, where taking control by the mobile computer is permitted by a central controller only if the service technician can have sight contact with the corresponding system, for which purpose localization services of a local radio network are used for the determination of the position and/or of the orientation of the mobile computer of the service technician.

In a method for error detection and monitoring an electronically closed-loop or open-loop controlled machine part, operating parameters and monitoring parameters of machine parts are recorded and stored. A comparison group of comparable machine parts and comparable operating parameters is determined based on the recorded and stored operating parameters and a machine part to be compared. A statistical analysis procedure is used for creating a threshold value based on the determined comparison group, and for detecting a variance of at least one state or at least one of the monitoring parameters based on the threshold value. The variance is assigned to the machine part.

There are provided a repair determination section that determines, based on failure information on the facility for manufacturing a product, a repair time required to repair the facility, and a recovery plan creation section that creates a recovery plan in accordance with a predetermined production evaluation indicator, based on the repair time and production information on a line with the failed facility, one or more other facilities, and on one or more other lines.

Provided is a device management system to suppress decreases in producibility. A device management system manages a plurality of production-line-configuring devices configuring a production line to produce products, and has a device state data storage part, an analysis part, and a server output part. The production-line-configuring devices include a combination weighing machine to weigh the products, a bag-making and packaging machine to package the products, and a boxing device to box the packaged products into boxes. The device state data storage part accumulates device state data, which is information pertaining to the components included in the production-line-configuring devices. The analysis part performs an analysis process to analyze the device state data accumulated in the device state data storage part. The server output part outputs maintenance information, which pertains to maintenance of the components, on the basis of the results of the analysis process.

Systems, methods and/or computer program products predictively automating configurations of modular service zones servicing physical assets, maximizing reuse of service zone(s) and optimizing time for servicing a plurality of physical assets. Digital twin models of physical assets are classified, and arranged into workflows for the service zones, sequencing services performed on physical assets arriving at service centers and preparing service zones based on types of services requested, the estimated time of arrival and similarities between classifications of different digital twins of physical assets. Based on sequences of the workflow, arrival times of physical assets and overlap between parts, tools, machines, etc., within various service zones, service center coordinates robotic systems to arrange service zones in a manner that minimizes waiting time between services, maximizes the number of physical assets repaired within a period of time and reduces rearrangement of service zones between the services provided to different physical assets.