PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process management device for facilitating countermeasures to the ramification or parting of a process. SOLUTION: In the process management device for managing a plurality of processes by using a process management table 101, the process management table 101 includes a current process field for recording identification information of a current process, one or more pre-process fields for recording identification information of each of one or more pre-processes corresponding to the current process, and a connection information field for, when there are two or more pre-processes corresponding to the current process, recording connection information showing how two or more pre-processes are connected, and the process management field 101 includes the record of each process, and identification information of the process is recorded in the current process field for each process, and when the process is not a leading process, the identification information of each of one or more pre-processes corresponding to the process is recorded in one or more pre-process fields, and when there are two or more pre-processes corresponding to the process, the connection information showing how two or more pre-processes are connected is recorded in the connection information field. COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT
