Patent ID: 7142116
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article management system comprising: a tag, said tag being mountable to an article from production of the article to disposal thereof, said tag including identification information that identifies a particular article; tag information read means for reading information from the tag; identification means for identifying an individual article based on the identification information read from the tag; article information storage means for storing at least one of registration information and history information of the article while associating the information with the identification information of the individual article; information output means for reading at least one of the registration information related to the individual article and the history information related thereto from the article information storage means and outputting the read information, based on an identification result obtained by the identification means; manifest issuance means for issuing a manifest in association with identification information for identifying the individual article; and waste disposal information storage means for storing information of enterprises in respective stages of waste disposal in association with the identification information.