Patent ID: 8610918

Claim:
A management apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store management information indicating a correspondence among operation mode of an image forming apparatus, a status change in the operation mode, and replacement part information, wherein the operation mode includes a plurality of modes at least from among an operator maintenance mode, a service mode and a normal mode; a receiving unit configured to receive a notification indicative of one of the plurality of modes, as the operation mode of the image forming apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to acquire the status change in the image forming apparatus; a generation unit configured to refer to the management information stored in the storage unit and generate a replacement part list according to the operation mode of the image forming apparatus received via the receiving unit and the status change acquired via the acquisition unit; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the replacement part list generated by the generation unit to the image forming apparatus, wherein the management information indicates the replacement part information of different replacement parts to be replaced in the respective plurality modes, and wherein the generation unit generates a replacement part list according to a sequential order of opening and closing a plurality of opening-and-closing parts disposed in the image forming apparatus and/or a sequential order of detaching and attaching a plurality of attachable-and-detachable parts disposed in the image forming apparatus, and wherein, in the management information, the replacement part information defines, according to opening and closing of any one of the plurality of opening-and-closing parts or detaching and attaching of any one of the plurality of attachable-and-detachable parts, candidates of different replacement parts in the respective plurality modes.