Patent ID: 7826913

Claim:
A sheet metal factory processing system, comprising: a production manager that prepares designations which define a plurality of parts to be blanked from a plurality of material sheets, generates sheet processing data by laying out the plurality of parts to be blanked from the plurality of material sheets on the plurality of material sheets, and generates a processing schedule for the plurality of the material sheets based on the sheet processing data, the processing schedule including a plurality of processing schedule portions respectively corresponding to the plurality of material sheets; and a sheet metal factory processing installation that is connected to the production manager through a communication network, receives one of the generated processing schedule portions from the production manager, and processes a predetermined one of the plurality of material sheets according to the received processing schedule portion to blank the parts laid out on the predetermined one of the plurality of material sheets, wherein, the processing schedule includes status data respectively corresponding to the plurality of processing schedule portions, each of the status data indicating at least whether a corresponding processing schedule portion is processed or unprocessed, and when a change is made to the manufacturing designations, the production manager integrates an unprocessed processing schedule portion, whose status data included in the processing schedule indicates unprocessed, with content of the change, to generate a revised processing schedule according to the changed manufacturing designations.