Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshiki Ishida

Koichi Kimura

Hideo Ishida

Keiichi Samekawa

Kenichi Katayama

Yoshifumi Matsumoto

Producing vehicles by using a plurality of production lines allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step in each line, in accordance with an increase or decrease in the number of vehicles to be produced in the respective production lines, some of the vehicles in one of the production lines which has less of a margin for production are transferred, after passing through the welding step, to another production line at a portion between its welding step and coating step which line has more of a margin for production. With this arrangement, when it becomes necessary to increase or decrease the number of vehicles in the lines, it is possible to produce vehicles without changing the production ability in the respective steps after the welding step, only by adjusting the number of vehicles in the welding step of the production line which has a less of a margin for production.

Apparatus for producing vehicles

In producing vehicles by using a plurality of production lines allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step, in accordance with an increase or decrease in the production of vehicles in the respective production lines, some of the vehicles in one of the production lines which has less margin for producing vehicles are transferred, after passing through said welding step, to another production line between a welding step and coating step which another production line has more margin for producing vehicles. With this arrangement, when it becomes necessary to increase or decrease the production of vehicles in the respective production lines, it is possible to produce vehicles with high efficiency without changing the production ability in the respective steps after passing through the welding step, only by adjusting the production of vehicles in the welding step in the production line which has less margin for producing vehicles.

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Yoshiki Ishida