To provide a method and device for automatic inspection with which inspected data can be changed corresponding to a user level.

A knowledge data base 31 composed of the inspected data hierarchized corresponding to the user levels and a processing library 32 for actuating the control program of one client machine 20 for executing inspection processing at least are registered in one server machine 11 for managing a data base. User information is inputted from the client machine 20 through a communication line 12 to the server machine 11. Then, at the server machine 11, the user level is judged based on this user information and corresponding to the decided result, the change of hierarchized inspected data in the knowledge data base 31 is limited.