To easily reduce useless repeating of a work in a process for developing a complicated product.
The product development process support system 10 analyzing dependence between a plurality of necessary conditions belonging to any of a plurality of hierarchies in the product development process is provided with an input receiving part 12 for receiving input of information indicating dependence between two necessary conditions belonging to mutually adjacent hierarchies and information indicating the degree of influence of the necessary conditions to product development, and a dependence deriving part 13 for deriving dependence between arbitrary two necessary conditions belonging to the same hierarchy from information indicating dependence between the two necessary conditions received by the input receiving part 12 and the other necessary conditions and information indicating the degree of influence of the two necessary conditions on the basis of a previously set dependence deriving rule.
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SHIHODA ATAU
NAGATOMI ISAO
KARASAWA TAKEO
Shiro Terasaki
Kenji Fukaishi
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