Production management system

A production management system comprising:

• a plurality of production facilities each including a plurality of tools and a facility body to process, using the tools, a workpiece delivered into the facility body;
• a first operation instruction provider configured to
• give a first operator an instruction to perform an operation including delivering the workpiece into or out of a predetermined one of the production facilities via a display screen of an input-output device in accordance with a production plan and operating statuses of the production facilities, and
• acquire an operation status of the operation via operation of an interface of the input-output device by the first operator;
• and
• a management device configured to
• transmit, to a production facility into which the workpiece has been delivered by the first operator, process data for activation of the production facility including a numeric control (NC) program to control the facility body in accordance with a status of delivery of the workpiece into and out of each of the production facilities after the operation status indicates that the first operator has started the operation and before the operation status indicates that the first operator has finished the operation,
• store the process data, operating status information on the production facilities acquired from the production facilities, and operation status information on the operation acquired from the first operation instruction provider, such that these pieces of information are stored in association with each other.