EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To supply, with respect to consumable supplies of electronic equipment, which are necessary to be supplied at the same timing, replenishment articles or replacement articles thereof together even when their supply necessity timings are not consistent.SOLUTION: An equipment management device (management server 5) comprises: an information acquisition section 37 that acquires information from an image forming apparatus 3 including a plurality of toners; a supply target setting section 39 that sets, when at least one of the plurality of toners is determined on the basis of the acquired information to be in the replacement toner supply necessity timing, the toner in the supply necessity timing as a replacement toner supply target; a supply timing prediction section 41 that predicts the supply necessity timing of a toner other than the supply target of the plurality of toners on the basis of the acquired information; and an identical timing supply target setting section 43 that sets a toner whose predicted supply necessity timing is in a specific identical timing range with respect to the supply necessity timing of the supply target as an identical timing supply target whose replacement toner is to be supplied to the identical supply destination together with that of the supply target.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2