Patent ID: 7245978

Claim:
A managing apparatus for managing an assisting work to assist a substrate-related-operation performing system comprising a plurality of substrate-related-operation performing machines each of which performs a substrate-related operation that is related to a circuit substrate, the assisting work being carried out, as needed, when the substrate-related operation performing system is operated, and comprising at least one of a supplying work to supply a material or a part which is consumed or worn during the substrate-related operation, and a recovering work to remove a cause of a failure of at least one of the substrate-related-operation performing machines, the managing apparatus assigning, each time a need to carry out the assisting work occurs, the assisting work to one of a plurality of workers, the managing apparatus comprising an assisting-work occurrence information obtaining portion which obtains, from the substrate-related-operation performing machines, assisting-work occurrence information which is related to occurrence of a need to carry out at least one assisting work and which represents an object and a sort of said at least one assisting work and a time to carry out said at least one assisting work; and a worker determining portion which determines, based on the assisting-work occurrence information obtained by the assisting-work occurrence information obtaining portion, one of the workers who is appropriate to carry out said at least one assisting work as at least one objective work, so that said at least one objective work is assigned to said one worker.