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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshihiro Okumura, Nukata-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A production management system performs progress management of working steps applied on a workpiece in accordance with a working step flow for manufacturing a product. The production management system comprises a comment storing device for storing a comment having contents relating to a specified working step in the working step flow, an address storing device for storing address information relating to an author of the comment, and a transmitting device for, when it is confirmed that the workpiece has arrived at the specified working step, transmitting predetermined information to an address obtained from the address information stored in the address storing device.