PURPOSE: To certainly separate the data for the input and output of a prescription due to the establishment of an on-line system based on a host computer and the data for a pharmaceutical machine and to rapidly output said data by providing a control/management computer performing the control and management of a pharmaceutical apparatus for medicines.

CONSTITUTION: An input personal computer (input PC) 1 for inputting prescription data has the primary file 18 connected to an HDDC controller 8 and the secondary file 19 connected to an HDDC controller 9 and can output a prescription 15, a drug packet 16 and a label 17 from an output interface 10. A control/ management personal computer (control PC) 20 for controlling a tablet distributing packer to perform packing can perform the stoppage of the tablet distributing packer, the abnormal display thereof and the treatment thereof when abnormality is generated in said packer. Further, a host computer 80 is connected between the input PC 1 and the control PC 20. By this method, the network system of a pharmaceutical apparatus for medicines, reception business, a ward or the like is established and pharmaceutical business is made smooth.