Patent ID: 7024433

Claim:
A design change supporting system for supporting a system of changing a design of one or more parts constituting a product, said design change supporting system comprising: a parts composition information database configured to store and supervise various parts compositions of various products; a related section information database configured to store various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing capability of design change in connection with a product; a change parts information inputting device configured to input information related to design change objective parts; a product specifying device configured to retrieve and specify one or more products employing design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with input parts information; an assessment destination selecting device configured to retrieve and/or select one or more sections and persons from the related section information database in accordance with a specified product; a transmitting device configured to electronically transmit a request for assessment of a design change capability to the one or more sections and persons selected by the assessment destination selecting device; and a reception device configured to receive resultant of the capability assessment from the one or more sections and/or persons so as to determine if a formal design change instruction can be released, wherein said assessment destination selecting device inhibits a designer from arbitrarily changing the sections and/or persons retrieved from the related section information database in accordance with the specified product, and wherein said related section information database stores one or more sections and/or parsons who totally assess inconsistent design change inspection resultants in connection with the product, and said transmitting device selects and transmits inconsistent inspection resultants to the one or more sections and/or parsons when the assessment resultants received by the reception device are inconsistent with each other.