To provide a monitoring system for a blister packaging machine, which can significantly suppress troubles caused by foreign materials or the like allowed to come into the machine by a worker or the like.

A plurality of blister packaging machines 8#1 to 8#n are installed in a packaging machine room 40, and have control means 50#1 to 50#n for controlling respective types of actuators, respectively, and are connected to a LAN 53. In the packaging machine room 40, an managing means 55 is also arranged to carry out concentrated management of each packaging machines 8#1 to 8#n via the LAN 53. Information managed by the managing means 55 is stored temporarily in a mail server 61 via the LAN 53 and a cellular phone network 58, which transmits from the cellular phone network 58 the stored information temporarily in the mailserver 61 in a form of mail information to a cellular phone 62 carried by a worker waiting in another room 70.