1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components and, more particularly, to a method for providing a smart automatic match mechanism via a communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags and a matched remote database to provide service for users to determine assembly match information of components and to update quickly assembly match information in the tags.
2. Description of Related Art
Along with the progress of the industrial technology, components of industrial products tend toward complexity and diversification due to continual upgrade of products. The functional wholeness of the final product depends on the exploitability of individual functions of each component and the function interaction between components. In the past, function confirmation of a target component and whether to perform assembly before assembly or for after-sale service usually depend on an assembler's recognition of the component. After a new product is launched, update of the assembly match information of existent components usually cannot keep up, hence resulting in much inconvenience to the assembler and also difficulty of after-sale service.
Because the recognition of component depends on artificial judgement, misjudgment may occur due to insufficient experience or temporary carelessness. Using the car industry as an example, the number of components reaches tens of thousands. Whether the interactions between components are normal relate to the safety of driving. When a car is sent back to the factory for replacement of a component due to breakdown, although the maintenance technician replaces the component according to the specification of the original manufacturer, whether the component is the one defined by the original manufacturer depends on-visual confirmation of the technician. When artificial confirmation is wrong, a wrong component will replace the original component to affect the safety of driving. Therefore, how to use a systematic mechanism to avoid this kind of artificial error is an important issue for providing products of high reliability.
One object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. The method can provide a realtime assembly match information inquiry mechanism, a mechanism capable of avoiding artificial error in assembly, accurate combination of components for assemblers or maintenance technicians, and related specification information of components. Besides, the method can make suggestions to the assembly scheme of replaced components and also provide the function of quickly updating the assembly match information in tags on components.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. In this method, a bi-directional communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags on components are first provided. The tags are used to store ID codes of the components and product assembly match information. Next, the read/write device is used to read the tag information. The tag information is then transmitted to a computer program of the communication equipment. If the tag information does not include the product assembly match information, a remote database corresponding to the components is connected via the tag ID codes. If the tag information already includes the product assembly match information, it is not necessary to connect to a remote database, and the product assembly match information is directly used. Finally, the computer program provides a component match service based on the tag ID codes or the product assembly match information, and also feeds back related service information to an inquiry terminal.
To achieve the above object, the present invention also provides a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. In this method, a bi-directional communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags on components are first provided. The tags are used to store ID codes of the components and product assembly match information. Next, the read/write device is used to read the tag information. The tag information is then transmitted to a computer program of the communication equipment, and a remote database corresponding to the components is connected via the tag ID codes. The computer program is a component match decision simulation program. Finally, the component match decision simulation program is used to pick 3D figures of the database, display the match simulation situations between at least two components on the communication equipment, and determine whether the match between the at least two components is suitable.
To achieve the above object, the present invention also provides a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. In this method, a bi-directional communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags on components are first provided. The tags are used to store ID codes of the components and product assembly match information. Next, the read/write device is used to read the tag information. The tag information is then transmitted to a computer program of the communication equipment, and a remote database corresponding to the components is connected via the tag ID codes. Finally, the computer program provides a component match service-based on the tag ID codes or the product assembly match information, and also feeds back related service information to an inquiry terminal. The computer program can be an ID code converting program used to convert the tag information into an identical product serial number. The computer program can also be a component match decision program used to determine whether the match between at least two components is suitable. The computer program can also be a component match decision program, which makes use of a database for recording the component match relationship to determine whether the match between at least two component is suitable. The computer program can also be a component match decision simulation program, which picks 3D figures of the database to display the match simulation situations between at least two components on the communication equipment and determine whether the match between the at least two components is suitable. The computer program can also be a component match suggestion program used to provide a different component matchable with a component selected by the user. The computer program can further have a database connection function to operate the database after connection.
To achieve the above object, the present invention also provides a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. In this method, a bi-directional communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags on a component are first provided. The tags are being used to store ID codes of the components and product assembly match information. Next, the read/write device is used to read the tag information. The tag information is then transmitted to a computer program of the communication equipment, and a remote database corresponding to the components is connected via the tag ID codes. Subsequently, update information of the remote database is transmitted to the read/write device via the communication equipment when the assembly match information of the components changes. Finally, the read/write device is used to update the assembly match information in the tags on the components.
To achieve the above object, the present invention also provides a method for providing service for users to determine assembly match information of components. In this method, a bi-directional communication equipment, a read/write device, and a plurality of tags on a component are first provided. The tags are used to store ID codes of the components and product assembly match information. A remote database corresponding to the tag ID codes of the components is also provided. Next, update information of the remote database is transmitted to the read/write device via the communication equipment when the assembly match information of the components changes. Finally, the read/write device is used to update the assembly match information in the tags on the components.
The various objects and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the appended drawing, in which:
Next, the read/write device is used to read the tag information (Step S202) The tag information includes component ID code, 3D figure serial number, 3D-model, industry type, manufacturer, weight, capacity, general description, point for attention, outward appearance diagram, and product assembly match information. The tag information can further be transmitted to an open or private web service via network to provide a component match scheme inquiry service. The tag information is then transmitted to a computer program of the communication equipment (Step S204) Subsequently, whether the tags include the product assembly match information is determined (Step S206) If the answer is no, a remote database corresponding to the components is connected via the tag ID codes (Step S208) If whether the tag IDs carried by the tags belong to the same encoding system cannot be made sure, the computer program further comprises an ID code converting program used to convert the tag information into an encoded value of the same product encoding system (Step S210).
Next, a component match decision program is used to determine whether the match between at least two components is suitable (Step S212), or the component match decision program makes suggestion to the content of components. Through cooperation of the computer program of the communication equipment and the remote database, inquiry judgement and match decision of components are then provided for the user (Step S214).
Moreover, a packaged text markup language format file is transmitted to an inquiry terminal via network (Step S216) Finally, the inquiry terminal interprets the text markup language format file and also displays related messages (Step S218) The related messages relate to other match combinations of component if the match between the components is determined to be unsuitable.
If whether the tag IDs carried by the tags belong to the same encoding system cannot be confirmed, the computer program further comprises an ID code converting program used to convert the tag information into an encoded value of the same product encoding system (Step S306).
Next, the component match decision simulation program is used to pick 3D figures of the database (Step S308) The component match decision simulation program then displays the match simulation situations between at least two components on the communication equipment (Step S310) Finally, the component match decision simulation program determines whether the match between the at least two components is suitable (Step S312).
Moreover, this method further comprises the following steps after Step S312 of determining whether the match between the components is suitable. Data for determining whether the match of at least two components is suitable is first packaged into a text markup language format file like XML (Step S314) The packaged text markup language format file is then transmitted to an inquiry terminal via network (Step S316) Finally, the inquiry terminal interprets the text markup language format file and displays related messages (Step S318) The related messages relate to other match combinations of component if the match between the components is determined to be unsuitable.
Moreover, this method further comprises the following steps after Step S606 of providing inquiry judgement and match decision of component for the user. Data of the inquiry judgement and match decision of component is first packaged into a text markup language format file like XML (Step S608) The packaged text markup language format file is then transmitted to an inquiry terminal via network (Step S610) Finally, the inquiry terminal interprets the text markup language format file and displays related messages (Step S612) The related messages relate to other match combinations of component if the match between the components is determined to be unsuitable.
The user 1 has a communication equipment 10 and an ID code converting program 11. The user 2 has a communication equipment 20. The computer program 3 has a component match decision program 31, a component match decision simulation program 32, and a component match suggestion program 33. Inquiry judgement and match decision can be provided for the user 1 through the communication equipment 10 and the ID code converting program 11 and the computer program 3 connected with the database 4 via network. The user 2 can directly use the communication equipment 2 to accomplish the same effect via network through the computer program 3.
The present invention is illustrated in more detail below.
1. Establishing Primary Data of Component:
2. Establishing Match Matrix of Components:
A match matrix is an N×N matrix, wherein N is the number of ISCN and is also the number of component registered in the primary data of component. The match matrix records the feasibility of match between components. Storage of the match matrix can be accomplished by using an existent database technique. Any feasible program language can be used to realize the required user interface program. Table 2 shows an example of the match matrix wherein the symbol “ν” means match can be accomplished between the two components:
3. Establishing Correspondence Between Tag IDs and Product Component Codes:
4. Establishing a Knowledge Service Terminal for Match Decision:
5. Establishing a Conversion Terminal of Tag IDs and Product Component Codes:
6. Establishing Inquiries of the Inquiry Terminal:
To sum up, the present invention has the following advantages:
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the details thereof. Various substitutions and modifications have been suggested in the foregoing description, and other will occur to those of ordinary skill in the art. Therefore, all such substitutions and modifications are intended to be embraced within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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