Patent ID: 7409363

Claim:
A maintenance part central control system comprising: a warehouse facility where maintenance parts for a plurality of types of machinery that are present in a plurality of plants are centrally stocked; a necessary-parts control apparatus that controls requirement conditions for said maintenance parts of said machinery and provides control information; a parts shipping control apparatus that specifies said maintenance parts to be shipped from said warehouse facility based on the control information of said necessary-parts control apparatus; and an order control apparatus that specifies the maintenance parts and quantities thereof to be ordered based on storage information about said maintenance parts in said warehouse facility, or based on the control information of said necessary-parts control apparatus; wherein said order management apparatus is configured such that the maintenance parts and quantities thereof to be ordered are specified by estimating a necessary quantity of said maintenance parts based on fluctuations of the quantity of said maintenance parts shipped from said warehouse facility, on fluctuations of maintenance inspection frequency of said machinery, or on fluctuations of operational status of said machinery; and said order management apparatus is configured to be able to set and input a target value of a total price of said maintenance parts to be stocked at said warehouse facility, and is configured such that, when specifying the quantity of said maintenance parts to be ordered, the quantity of said maintenance parts to be ordered decreases as the total price of said maintenance parts stocked in said warehouse facility approaches said target value based on set conditions; and said necessary parts control apparatus is configured such that stock information classified by plant indicating the quantities of said maintenance parts that are stocked in said multiple plants is stored in memory, and is configured such that said stock information classified by plant is used in determining said maintenance part requirement conditions.