Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shuko Arai

Yumiko Hayashi

Makoto Moriguchi

Hiroshi Ohno

In order to support a system of changing a design of a parts constituting a product, both a parts composition information database for storing and supervising parts compositions of various products, and a related section information database for storing various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing design change capability in connection with the product are provided. Information of design change objective is input so as to retrieve and specify one or more products employing the design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with the input parts information. In accordance with the specified product, the related section information database is retrieved so as to select sections and/or persons. A request for assessing the parts design change capability is electronically transmitted to the selected one or more sections and/or persons. Plural assessment resultants are received from the assessment requesting destinations so as to determine if a formal design change instruction can be released.

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Shuko Arai