Patent ID: 7062395

Claim:
A damage status analyzing method comprising: selecting an article to be analyzed from a storage section on the basis of arbitrarily selected one or more distribution attributes of articles that are observed during transportation, the storage section storing, for each article, said distribution attributes and damage information including damaged position information indicative of a damaged position of the article; collecting damage information indicative of damage concentrating at a particular position on the basis of the damaged position information on the article selected in said selection act; extracting information from said damage information collected in said collection act on the basis of analysis conditions for estimation of causes of damage to the article stored in said storage section, and classifying the extracted information according to said analysis conditions; determining the cause of the damage to the article by comparing a damage tendency corresponding to said analysis conditions stored in said storage section with a damage tendency determined through the classification in said classification act; and adding said damage information and a result of the determination in said determination act to a plan view of said article on the basis of the damaged position information on said selected article and outputting the plan view with the damage information and determination result added thereto to a presentation section.