Hitachi, Ltd.

Sadao Ohara

Takeshi Kawana

Takeshi Yano

Tatsuya Niinomi

Shin Hashizume

Yasuhiro Fujita

Toshiyuki Amimoto

Yasuo Shibasaki

Tatsuhisa Matsunaga

Yuuji Enomoto

Software and hardware such as part feeding and assembling devices constituting a production system are simplified with the use of a plurality of processing and assembly integrated units in which processing and assembling of parts are coupled and integrated in accordance with products to be produced. The necessities for an automatic warehouse and an automated ground vehicle are eliminated by getting rid of futility of mere movements of the parts. A fundamental idea is that a production system is constructed of units in which three sections--a section for processing a raw material, a check functional section and an assembling section--are integrally combined in accordance with the products to be produced. The parts are processed, checked and assembled by single units just in time while targeting molded parts of plastic and pressed parts.

Production system for molded and pressed parts

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Fujisawa, Japan

Sadao Ohara