Patent ID: 7801902

Claim:
An apparatus for surveying a substance, the apparatus comprising: a survey request data transmitting unit that transmits survey request data on a chemical substance to a terminal, the survey request data including part identification information and identification information about a survey requestor requesting a survey about the chemical substance, the survey request data holding an entry area for survey details information on the chemical substance; a survey request data receiving unit that receives entered survey request data on the chemical substance from the terminal, the entry area for the survey details information on the chemical substance used in a production of a part indicated by the part identification information having been entered in the entered survey request data; a check definition data loading unit that loads check definition data used for performing a determination whether each information entered in the entry area for the survey details information has been entered in a defined format; a format checking unit that checks a format of each information in the survey details information entered in the entered survey request data on the chemical substance by using the loaded check definition data; and a checked data transmitting unit that transmits to a predetermined apparatus the checked entered survey request data on the chemical substance.