To operate the automatic devices of manufacturing process more effectively and to solve the needs of the resource sharing, network technology is applied to the unit con-trol devices located In common manufacturing zone and operated by connecting them. The network management system, which controls and supervises the network resources in the communication network, is the function that is necessarily required in this net-work. For the stability in this network, this paper measures the variation of data packet length and node number and analyzes the variated value of the token rotation time and waiting time for the network operation. On the evalution of the performance, the data packet length varies from 10 bytes to 100 bytes in the operation of the group manage-ment network, the variation of the token rotation time and waiting time is less than 10 msec. When the variation of the data packet lenhth is less than 50 bytes, differences in token rotation time or waiting time is unnoticable. Since the waiting time in this case is less than 10 msec, response time Is fast enough.