Management system for manufacture

An equipment production management system for use in the assembly of part units from a plurality of mutually different types of elementary parts and for selectively combining a plurality of types of the part units to form equipment as a final product of a production process, said system comprising:

• first means for producing a construction sequence of at least one of the parts units and for outputting construction information including said construction sequence;
• second means for producing the at least one of the parts units by assembling a variety of the elementary parts in accordance with said construction information;
• third means for storing the part units in a storage;
• fourth means for producing the equipment by assembling necessary part units selected from said storage in accordance with said construction information output from said first means;
• fifth means for shipping completed equipment;
• an information inputting and outputting terminal;
• a central control unit for managing at least a part of said first, second, third, fourth and fifth means in a unified manner and coupled to said information inputting and outputting terminal for inputting into and outputting from the central control unit terminal information, said central control unit including a customer base order data file, a design data file, a design know-how data file storing know-how data enabling production of an optimum system design with respect to said customer base order data file, an equipment installation design unit and an arithmetic processing unit, said equipment installation design unit including data file producing means for producing an equipment installation data file corresponding to an order received from a customer based on said customer base order data file, said design data file and said design know-how data file;
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• transfer means for transferring necessary information about said equipment installation data file to said first, second, third, fourth and fifth means to automatically perform at least one operation.