Patent ID: 7047220

Claim:
A product trading system for achieving a deal between a seller who sells a product and a buyer who purchases the product, comprising: a plurality of production machines located at different sites, the respective production machines including machine information generating means for monitoring the production machine, generating production information related to a product being produced or to be produced by the production machine and outputting the production information, and including location information generating means for generating location information specifying a location of the production machine and outputting the location information; an accumulation means for accumulating the production information related to the product being produced or to be produced and the location information from the production machines at respective sites; a demand information accepting means for accepting demand information with respect to a product that the buyer would like to purchase; a matching processing means for performing a matching processing that derives optimal production information from the production information accumulated in the accumulation means based on the demand information accepted at the demand information accepting means, the optimal production information being determined based on the location information for the plurality of production machines; and a matching processing result presentation means for presenting the buyer with the processing results from the matching processing means.