Manufacturing management apparatus using inspection information and trace information, and manufacturing system

A manufacturing management apparatus that manages a manufacturing facility that performs a plurality of manufacturing processes,

• the manufacturing facility comprising:
• a plurality of manufacturing devices that are disposed in the respective manufacturing processes so as to perform the same processing;
• a transfer device that transfers a part to one of the manufacturing devices in each of the manufacturing processes;
• and
• an inspection device that inspects ultimately manufactured articles,
• the manufacturing management apparatus comprising:
• an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information indicating current operating conditions of the respective manufacturing devices;
• a trace information acquisition unit that acquires trace information indicating which one of the manufacturing devices has been used in each of the manufacturing processes during the manufacturing of the articles;
• a storage unit that stores, for each of the articles, inspection information in association with the trace information, the inspection information indicating inspection results of the articles inspected by the inspection device;
• a manufacturing device determination unit that creates combinations of the manufacturing devices that can perform the manufacturing processes in consideration of the operation information and the trace information, determines a quality index from the inspection information for each of the created combinations, and determines, based on the quality index determined for each of the combinations, a combination of the manufacturing devices to be used;
• and
• a transfer destination indication unit that indicates a transfer destination of the part to the transfer devices based on the combination of the manufacturing devices determined by the manufacturing device determination unit;
• wherein the manufacturing device determination unit acquires a predetermined number of pieces of the latest inspection information for each of the created combinations, and, when the predetermined number of pieces of the inspection information cannot be acquired, determines the combination of the manufacturing devices to be used from the combinations where the inspection information have not been acquired.