Patent ID: 7873550
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A process control system which is carried out by at least one computer, and which controls manufacturing and distribution processes of manufactured product items, the process control system comprising the at least one computer configured to: maintain a process table in which the manufacturing and distribution processes of the manufactured product items are defined for types of the manufactured product items; maintain a process relationship table in which a work order of processes is defined; maintain a history record table in which history record information on the manufacturing and distribution processes of manufactured product items is stored for manufactured product item IDs that identify the manufactured product items; maintain a history record relationship table defining a work order of history records indicated by the history record information; search a previous process and a next process, of a subject process to which a history record belongs as indicated by input history record information, in the process relationship table; and search the history record related to the previous process or the next process in the history record table, wherein: when the order of input history records inputted has a differing order than the work order of processes, a previous history record of the history record indicated by input history record information, not yet registered in the history record table, is registered in the history record relationship table with a history record indicated by input history record information by using a code for indicating that the previous history record is pending, and when history record information corresponding to the previous history record registered by using the code is subsequently input, the code is rewritten to a history record indicated by the history record information corresponding to the previous history record.