Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigehiro Nakajima

Yoshinobu Kawasaki

Mitsugu Takahashi

Makoto Urano

Noriyuki Unose

Yasuo Watanabe

Yoshimasa Ota

Koichi Kida

In an assembly line in which at least two kinds of workpieces are transported by mixture and in which each of the workpieces is transported by a self-propelling transporting member, a transporting pitch for each kind of workpiece is set in advance based on a difference in the number of assembling man-hours required for each of them. The timing for starting the transporting member off a starting end of the assembly line is controlled according to the transporting pitch such that a pitch between a preceding transporting member and a succeeding transporting member becomes equal to that which is set for a workpiece to be transported by the preceding transporting member.

Method of transporting workpieces in assembly line

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Sayama, Japan

Shigehiro Nakajima