US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Aug. 4 for "Production schedule change assistance apparatus, production schedule change assistance method, program therefor, and production management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,937, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hitachi LTD. (Tokyo).

"Production schedule change assistance apparatus, production schedule change assistance method, program therefor, and production management system" was invented by Yumiko Ishido (Tokyo), Yuichi Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Yuko Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schedule change apparatus includes a change model creation section, a schedule creation section, a schedule change evaluation indicator creation section, a production simulator, and a control section. The change model creation section creates a change model estimating a portion of the schedule to be changed. ...