PURPOSE: To facilitate the grasp of the progress situation of design at the time of distributed design by managing the design progress situation of respective constitution elements and displaying the design progress situation on the display screens of terminal equipments which respective designers use.
CONSTITUTION: A design object is divided into plural hierarchies. When plural designers design the respective constitution elements of the hierarchies in parallel by a network 15 by using the terminals which are mutually connected, the design progress situations of the respective constitution elements are managed and the design progress situations are displayed on the display screens 16-18 of the terminal equipments which the respective designers use. Here, the respective constitution elements are hierarchically displayed in different graphics for the process types of the constitution elements. Thus, the present progress situation of design data is displayed as the graphic. Thus, it can easily be grasped which design data is in what design progress situation without making an inquiry to a data base. Required design data can easily be obtained and an indication error can be reduced.
SUZUKI GORO
NATSUME KOICHIRO
