Production management system, production management method, and storage medium containing production management program for executing the production management method

A production management method that builds a production system of a finished product from a combination of various production factors, the factor branching into a plurality of factors from a superordinate concept toward a subordinate concept, wherein the production management method extracts each of the production factors required for building the production system from a plurality of factor-type databases in which the production factors are classified and stored for every type thereof, extracts a two-term relationship from a relational database in which the two-term relationship between the production factors linked with each other by an upper/lower two-term relationship between an arbitrary first production factor and a second production factor lying just below the first production factor is stored and also extracts a three-term relationship from the relational database in which the three-term relationship among the production factors linked with each other by an upper/lower three-term relationship among the first and second production factors, and a third production factor lying just below the second production factor is stored, connects these production factors extracted from the factor-type databases in series from a superordinate concept toward a subordinate concept thereof according to the two-term relationship and the three-term relationship to thereby build the production system corresponding to each finished product, and stores and outputs the built production system.

A computer-readable storage medium for storing a production management program for causing a computer to execute a production management method that builds a production system of a finished product from a combination of various production factors, the factor branching into a plurality of factors from a superordinate concept toward a subordinate concept, wherein the production management method extracts each of the production factors required for building the production system from a plurality of factor-type databases in which the production factors are classified and stored for every type thereof, extracts a two-term relationship from a relational database in which the two-term relationship between the production factors linked with each other by an upper/lower two-term relationship between an arbitrary first production factor and a second production factor lying just below the first production factor is stored and also extracts a three-term relationship from the relational database in which the three-term relationship among the production factors linked with each other by an upper/lower three-term relationship among the first and second production factors, and a third production factor lying just below the second production factor is stored, connects these production factors extracted from the factor-type databases in series from a superordinate concept toward a subordinate concept thereof according to the two-term relationship and the three-term relationship to thereby build the production system corresponding to each finished product, and stores and outputs the built production system.