Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co., Ltd.

Mitsusato Hara

Atsushi Tomizawa

Manabu Okahisa

Shinjiro Kuwayama

Takashi Suyama

Yusuke Kinoshita

A positioning apparatus and a working system which can position a workpiece with better accuracy at a lower cost and in a reduced space even when the workpiece is heavy are provided. The positioning apparatus has 3 robot arms ()-() each having an arm and an actuator which drives the arm, a mounting platform () which is supported by the ends of the three robot arms ()-(), a securing jig () which secures a workpiece W which is mounted on the mounting platform () to the mounting platform (), and a controller () which controls the operation of each of the actuators.

Positioning apparatus, working system, and hot working apparatus

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Kawasaki, Japan

Mitsusato Hara