Hitachi, Ltd.

Masahito Uno

Koichi Sugimoto

Ichiro Taniguchi

Masahiro Watanabe

Takahiro Mori

Hideaki Suzuki

Makoto Kobayashi

Seii Miyakawa

Yoshio Matsumoto

Hisashi Onari

Hideaki Matoba

Kichie Matsuzaki

Toru Mita

Hidetoshi Inaba

Katuhisa Tanaka

Kaoru Imai

Osamu Higuchi

The present invention relates to a manufacturing system which accepts a custom order of product from a customer and custom manufactures a product without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency. The manufacturing system includes the featuring steps of inputting the required specification of a product, creating the product design based on the design information of the product transmitted from a designing department, status data from the production department, and the input required specification, showing the created product design to the customer, selectively indicating a product to be purchased, transmitting the specification of the selected product to the production department, and producing a product based on the selected product specification.

Custom-made manufacturing system and custom-made manufacturing method

A six-degree-of-freedom articulated robot mechanism includes a three-degree-of-freedom translation unit for adjusting the position. The translation unit includes an orientation maintaining mechanism which has a rotation articulation of the direct drive type connecting a drive motor directly to an arm, and a link mechanism. A three-degree-of-freedom rotation unit for adjusting the orientation includes three rotation articulators of the direct drive type connecting a drive motor directly to a table, and the axes of the three rotation articulators intersect one another at one point.

Six-degree-of-freedom articulated robot mechanism and assembling and

Disclosed is a pick and place unit having a first moving plate movably supported by a fixed plate and a second movable moving plate supported by the first moving plate movably in the direction crossing the moving direction of the first moving plate. The pick and place unit comprises: a first rod-shaped member secured to the fixed plate and disposed along the moving direction of the first moving plate; a second rod-shaped member secured to the second moving plate and disposed along the moving direction of the second moving plate; a movable stopper secured to the first moving plate and having bores, each having portions different in width from each other, for receiving the first and second rod-shaped members respectively; a driving member for moving the movable stopper; and stators fixed at any desired positions of the first and second rod-shaped members, respectively, so as to sandwich the movable stopper and adapted to abut against the movable stopper.

Pick and place unit

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masahito Uno