An equipment inspection and evaluation system including a device inspecting and evaluation section for inspecting and evaluating a plurality of devices forming equipment in accordance with a predetermined inspection and evaluation sequence, the system comprising:
- an index memory section having stored therein indexes for the respective devices, the indexes being arranged in a predetermined order;
- an index calling section which first calls the foremost index and, then, calls succeeding indexes one by one in the predetermined order each time an external index output command is applied;
- an index output section outputting indexes called by the index calling section;
- a data receiving section receiving at least a part of the detailed data output from an equipment management system that produces the at least part of the detailed data by permitting a user to select from a plurality of predetermined data retrieval conditions at least one data retrieval condition according to which the detailed data output from the equipment management system is retrieved, each of the plurality of predetermined data retrieval conditions relating to determination of the order in which the devices are to be inspected;
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- an index storage control section storing the indexes contained in the received detailed data in the index memory section.