To attain collective management of an article processor by automatically obtaining maintenance information when the operation time of each article in use in each article processor exceeds an endurance time or a set mean time of failure interval.

This system is provided with plural article processors 1 set in article processing stations A and B and a central controller 2 for monitoring the operation state information of each article processor 1. A calculation processing part 33 of a maintenance managing part 3 calculates the cumulative activating time of each part in use based on each operation state information received from the central controller 2 through communication lines 4 and 5, and outputs maintenance information to the central controller 2 when each cumulative operation time is exceeds an entrance time or a mean time of failure interval.