Patent ID: 7197481

Claim:
A production system comprising: a plurality of point of sales terminals each including an electronic interface which obtains sales information concerning sales of a plurality of goods; a main control unit including an input device for receiving the sales information from the point of sales terminals, a main production controller including a production size determining unit for determining a production quantity to be produced in the future for the plurality of goods based on the sales information received from the plurality of point of sales terminals, and an output device for outputting data indicative of the production quantity determined by the production size determining unit; and a manufacturing unit for manufacturing plurality of goods based on the sales information which is collected at the plurality of point of sales terminals and transmitted from the plurality of point of sales terminals to the main production controller, wherein after the production size determining unit determines the production quantity, the main production controller transmits the output data indicative of the production quantity determined by the production size determining unit to a production unit and the production unit manufactures the production quantity of the plurality of goods in response to receiving the output data indicative of the production quantity from the main production controller.