Patent ID: 7035774

Claim:
A message notifying system for detecting information created during a run of a production facility and for notifying, in the form of a message, an operator of data identified as a target of notification based on the information, wherein the production facility is a mounting facility for mounting electronic components on a printed circuit board, the message notifying system comprising: a plurality of information receiver units for receiving the information from the production facility, at least one of said information receiver units being selected to receive the information according to a content of the information; an information summation unit for registering current state information representing a current state of the production facility, based on the information received by said at least one information receiver unit, and for selecting, as target data of notification, the current state information predictive of a halt of the production facility before the production facility comes to a halt; a portable data sending unit for sending the target data of notification selected by said information summation unit; and a data receipt notifying unit, carried by an operator, for receiving the target data of notification sent from said portable data sending unit, and for notifying the operator of the target data of notification, wherein the information is production progress information representing production progress within the mounting facility, and said information summation unit selects, as the target data of notification, the current state information where the production progress information is less than a set quantity for a target of notification.