Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tadashi Tobita

Takeshi Nakamura

Chitoshi Kato

Tetsuro Yamanobe

Takatoshi Hattori

Shoji Doi

Takashi Nakanishi

The floor of a motor vehicle which is assembled in a floor assembly station is transported to a subsequent station using at least two welding robots on each lateral side of the floor assembly station. These welding robots are constituted into dual-purpose welding robots for performing both welding work and transporting work. After the assembling of the floor has been finished, the floor is supported at four lateral and longitudinal jack-up points through the workpiece receiving member by the cooperation of these dual-purpose welding robots, and is transported from the floor assembly station to the subsequent station.

Apparatus for assembling floor of vehicle

In a method of manufacturing multiple kinds of products in an arbitrarily selected order in one manufacturing apparatus, the rate of operation of the welding robots to be disposed in each of assembly lines for each of parts is improved, the cost for equipment investment is reduced, and the time required to introduce a new kind of motor vehicle into the manufacturing apparatus is shortened, whereby the productivity is improved. The manufacturing apparatus is made up of: a plurality of part assembly lines for assembling a plurality of parts; a combining station for tack-welding these parts to thereby assemble a product; and a reinforce-welding line for reinforce-welding the product. The number of welding points for welding each of the parts in the respective assembly lines is made equal to one another for all kinds of vehicles. Those welding points of each of the parts which fall short of a required number of welding points are welded in the reinforce-welding line.

Method of manufacturing multiple kinds of products in arbitrarily selected order in one manufacturing line

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Tochigi-ken, Japan

Tadashi Tobita