Planning Support Systems

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planning support system capable of unifying the management of a product design, a production plan and result data in production planning of an industrial product such as a mold. SOLUTION: The CAD/CAM scheduler system comprises a CAD program part 101 supporting designing; a master data storage part 106 storing data for production; a CAM program part 102 performing calculation of work man-hour based on the data of the CAD program part 101 and the master data storage part 106; a scheduler program part 103 forming the production plan based on the data of the CAM program part 102; a plan data storage part 107 storing the data of the scheduler program part 103; a result data storage part 108 storing work results; and a data linkage part 105 linking each of the data. According to this, the management of the product design, the production plan and the result data can be unified. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI