Management apparatus and management method

Abstract

Provided is a management apparatus for a housing rack including multiple mounting lanes on which feeders configured to supply electronic components to an electronic component mounting machine are detachably mounted, and a lamp corresponding to each of the multiple mounting lanes, the management apparatus including: a storage section configured to store identification information of the feeder mounted on the mounting lane and maintenance information of the feeder identified by the identification information in association with each other; a specifying section configured to specify the identification information of the feeder requiring maintenance based on the maintenance information; and an output section configured to output a lighting command to the lamp corresponding to the mounting lane on which the feeder identified by the identification information specified by the specifying section is mounted.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.