MONITOR EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To discriminate the necessity of a notice taking a relation to other relational fault information occurred simultaneously into account and to inform it automatically to a notice destination upon the receipt of the fault information. SOLUTION: A fault data read section 8 reads fault data from received fault information. A notice necessity primary discrimination section 11 analyzes the fault data based on data in a fault notice necessity reference table 9 to discriminate whether or not the fault information is to be informed to a personnel in charge of maintenance. A notice necessity secondary discrimination section 12 discriminates the information by referring to other fault information stored in a reference object fault information database 10 when it is required to refer to other fault information for the discrimination. A fault notice information generating section 13 generates fault notice information to be informed to a personnel in charge of maintenance based on the discrimination result. A fault notice information storage section 7 stores the fault information referred by the fault notice information generating section. A fault notice information transmission section 15 informs the fault information to the personnel in charge of maintenance and deletes fault information that is no longer required and stored in the fault information storage section 7.