MANUFACTURING PROCEDURE ANALYSIS SUPPORT METHOD, PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

A manufacturing procedure analysis support method, a program product, and a recording medium for supporting a work for analyzing the relationship between a product quality factor and characteristic. At a computer, a factor specification is received from a user and an image corresponding to the image data associated with the received factor is arranged on a virtual space in a display device connected to the computer (S13). The virtual space where the image is arranged is displayed on the display device (S14). The specification reception, arrangement, and display are repeated until the user judges that there is similarity between adjacent images in the image displayed and specification of at least one image from the images having the similarity between the adjacent images is received (S15). A factor common to factors of the specified image is automatically extracted (S16). A hypothesis on the relationship between the common factor specified by the user and the product quality is received and the relationship hypothesis is verified (S17). Thus, it is possible to support the work for analyzing the relationship between the factor selected by the user and the quality characteristic by converting a feature amount from the product image data and a feature amount from the text data associated with the procedure by the manufacturer into a symbol set consisting of at least a numeric or a character, which is added to the factor (S11, S12).