A programming supporting apparatus that supports production of a control program for controlling a system configured from a plurality of mechanism components includes: a component-information storage unit to store component information corresponding to each of the mechanism components capable of configuring the system, the component information including a parameter for setting a condition of an operation executable by the system and a method describing, in accordance with the parameter, movement of a driving end that a driving device connected to the mechanism component is instructed to perform so as to cause the system to perform the operation; and a control-program producing unit to, when the mechanism component configuring the system is specified and the parameter for the mechanism component is set, produce the control program by using the method of the specified mechanism component and the set parameter.

A programming supporting apparatus that supports production of a control program for controlling a system configured from a plurality of mechanism components includes: a component-information storage unit to store component information corresponding to each of the mechanism components capable of configuring the system, the component information including a parameter for setting a condition of an operation executable by the system and a method describing, in accordance with the parameter, movement of a driving end that a driving device connected to the mechanism component is instructed to perform so as to cause the system to perform the operation; and a control-program producing unit to, when the mechanism component configuring the system is specified and the parameter for the mechanism component is set, produce the control program by using the method of the specified mechanism component and the set parameter.

A programming device creating a program in FBD language describing processes by connecting FBD parts on an editor screen, includes: a part information managing unit managing size information indicating a size of an FBD part; a recommended order determining unit acquiring, when operation to newly arrange an FBD part relative to an already-arranged FBD part on the editor screen is performed, size information on the already-arranged FBD part and size information on the FBD part to be newly arranged, from the part information managing unit, detecting regions where the FBD part to be newly arranged can be arranged based on the acquired size information, and determining a recommended priority order of part arrangement among the regions based on positions of the detected regions; and an editor unit displaying the recommended priority order determined by the recommended order determining unit in the regions.