Hino Motors, Ltd.

Yoshio Banba

Hirofumi Okazaki

Mitsuyoshi Yamada

A manufacturing method for a vehicle capable of reducing man-hours, improving worker posture, and increasing worker efficiency in a step for mounting components on a frame as part of vehicle assembly steps. Some or all components such as tanks, pipes and wires are mounted on a framebefore assembling the frame. Namely, some or all components are first mounted on side rails, which are elements of the frame, and cross membersare then assembled to the side rails. Side rail holding stands are disposed on a working surface plate to hold a pair of side railsin parallel and at a prescribed height, and in accordance with advancement of work, rotate each of the side railsabout a longitudinal axis thereof. Each side rail is rotated hydraulically by a prescribed angle (approximately 90 degrees) about a longitudinal axis thereof.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Banba