Patent ID: 7133789

Claim:
A measurement support system comprising: a measurement device; and a management device connected to the measurement device via a communications network, the management device supporting measurement performed by the measurement device, wherein the measurement device uses consumable materials for measurement, and the consumable materials are assigned a consumable material identifier beforehand, which identifies the consumable materials, wherein the measurement device comprises: a recognition portion for recognizing the consumable material identifier of consumable materials to be used in measurement; a measurement portion for performing measurement with the consumable materials; a communication portion for communicating with the management device via the communications network; and a control portion for controlling the communication portion to send measurement information to the management device, the measurement information including at least measured data obtained by the measurement portion and the consumable material identifier recognized by the recognition portion before measurement, and wherein the management device comprises: a consumable material information storage portion for storing measured data correcting information that corresponds to a production lot of the consumable materials in correspondence with the consumable material identifier; a communication portion for communicating with the measurement device via the communications network; a data correction portion for correcting measured data based on the measured data correcting information; and a control portion for extracting the consumable material identifier and the measured data from the measurement information received from the measurement device, fetching the measured data correcting information of the production lot that corresponds to the consumable material identifier from the consumable material information storage portion, and controlling the data correction portion to correct the measured data based on the measured data correcting information.