There is provided an information processing apparatus that allows a user to understand what kinds of causes are accumulated stepwise in what kind of order to cause abnormality and due to what kinds of reasons respective causes occur from direct causes of the respective causes. The information processing apparatus includes: an inference unit that infers, when abnormality occurs in a product manufactured by manufacturing equipment and the abnormality is caused by stepwise accumulation of plural causes, a fundamental cause of the abnormality by specifying the causes stepwise and, at least at certain one stage, selectively specifying one cause out of two or more direct causes that cause a cause at the stage using at least inference data stored in advance; a reason acquiring unit that acquires, for each of the causes specified stepwise, data concerning reasons why the cause occurs from a storage device; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display, for each of the reasons, the data concerning the respective reasons in association with related causes concerning the respective reasons.