Maintenance scheduling system and maintenance schedule creating method

A maintenance scheduling system comprises a management apparatus and an image processing apparatus,

• the management apparatus comprising:
• a setting unit configured to set a relation value indicating a relation between a number of operations in the image processing apparatus and data indicating a life of a consumable in the image processing apparatus;
• a data converting unit configured to convert, using the relation value, the number of operations acquired from the image processing apparatus into the data indicating the life of the consumable in the image processing apparatus;
• and
• a maintenance scheduling unit configured to create a maintenance schedule for the image processing apparatus using the data indicating the life of the consumable in the image processing apparatus calculated by the data converting unit, and
• the image processing apparatus comprising:
• a data storing unit configured to store the number of operations and the data indicating the life of the consumable in the apparatus, and
• an output interface configured to output the number of operations and the data indicating the life of the consumable stored in the data storing unit.

A method of creating a maintenance schedule for an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

• setting a relation value indicating a relation between a number of operations in an image processing apparatus to be subjected to maintenance scheduling and data indicating a life of a consumable in the image processing apparatus;
• converting, using the relation value, the number of operations acquired from the image processing apparatus into the data indicating the life of the consumable in the image processing apparatus;
• and
• creating a maintenance schedule for the image processing apparatus using the data indicating the life of the consumable in the image processing apparatus calculated by the data conversion.