Patent ID: 6393333
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
A production management system for performing progress management of working steps applied on a workpiece in accordance with a working step flow for manufacturing a product, the production management system comprising:comment storing means for storing a comment having contents relating to a specified working step in the working step flow; address storing means for storing address information relating to an author of the comment; and transmitting means for, when it is confirmed that the workpiece has arrived at the specified working step, transmitting predetermined information to at least one address obtained from the address information stored in the address storing means, wherein the comment storing means stores at least a name of a comment's author, contents of the comment, and a name of a working step to which the comment is assigned in an order of the working step flow, and the transmitting means transmits the name of the comment's author, the contents of the comment, and the name of the working step to which the comment is assigned to the address, as the predetermined information.