US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 30 for "Factory plan device, factory plan system, and factory plan method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,856, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Factory plan device, factory plan system, and factory plan method" was invented by Takahiro Nakano (Tokyo), Atsuko Enomoto (Tokyo) and Daiki Kajita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to more efficiently make a factory plan configured to maximize a productivity index.Provided is a factory plan device including a calculation unit configured to specify a process and a production resource candidate based on a shape of a component of a target product by inputting past production performance data of a product, production volume data, design data of the produ...