MANUFACTURING LINE DESIGN DEVICE, MANUFACTURING LINE DESIGN SYSTEM, MANUFACTURING LINE DESIGN METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

To shorten a preparation time for a process organization when a plurality of products are manufactured by a plurality of manufacturing lines.SOLUTION: A manufacturing line design device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires manufacturing information including the number of products to be manufactured, a process load indicating a load in each of a plurality of processes required to manufacture the products, the number of possessed facilities used to perform each of the processes, and a facility capacity indicating a processing capacity in each facility; a classification unit that classifies the products into clusters through clustering the products by using at least one of the number of products to be manufactured, the process load, and each facility capacity; and a design unit that designs a manufacturing line by using a classification result obtained by the classification unit. The design unit distributes the products to any one of a plurality of manufacturing lines in accordance with the classification result and, for each of the manufacturing lines after the distribution, optimizes the number of the facilities allocated to the manufacturing lines, by using the manufacturing information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】複数の製造ラインにより複数の製品を製造する場合における、工程編成の作成時間を短縮する。【解決手段】製造ライン設計装置は、製品の製造台数と、製品を製造するために必要な複数の工程について、各工程における負荷を表す工程負荷と、各工程を行うために使用される設備の保有数と、各設備における処理能力を表す設備能力と、を含む製造情報を取得する情報取得部と、製品の製造台数と、工程負荷と、各設備能力との少なくとも１つを用いて、製品をクラスタリングによりクラスタに分類する分類部と、分類部による分類結果を用いて製造ラインを設計する設計部と、を備え、設計部は、分類結果に応じて、製品を、複数の製造ラインのいずれかに、それぞれ振り分け、振り分け後における製造ライン毎に、製造情報を用いて、製造ラインに対して割り当てられる設備の台数を適正化する。【選択図】図１