Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Katsutoshi Ebana

Hidetoshi Takahashi

Nobuhiro Kozasa

Gentoku Fujii

Katsuyoshi Tsutsumida

Tomonori Iwasaki

Yohei Yamada

Yuji Kawamura

Koichi Sano

Yoshiki Asano

Yoshio Nagasawa

Kenji Tatsuda

Hitoshi Suzukawa

Mamoru Miyamura

Kunihiko Oba

Tadao Kurosawa

The platform truck apparatus is provided with: a narrow platform truck for transporting a car body; a left sub-platform truck, which is attached along the left side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; a left parts shelf carried on the left sub-platform truck; a right sub-platform truck, which is attached along the right side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; and a right parts shelf carried on the right sub-platform truck. Because the left sub-platform truck is moved backward relative to the narrow platform truck when a car body is loaded onto the narrow platform truck, the left parts shelf does not interfere with the loading of the car body.

Platform truck apparatus, workpiece transfer method, and workpiece conveyor equipment

A vehicle body component mounting system is provided with, along a conveyance path for a vehicle body, an upstream component mounting work area using a cell production system, a central component mounting work area in which the vehicle body is conveyed by an overhead conveyor, and a downstream component mounting work area using the cell production system in this order. Components other than principal components are mounted to the vehicle body using the cell production system. The cell production system is adaptable by increasing the number of component boxes, and thus an increase in the length of the line is prevented. The increase in the length of the line is prevented by using a line production system as a base and also using the cell production system as a part thereof.

Vehicle body component mounting system

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Tochigi-ken, Japan

Katsutoshi Ebana