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Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

May. 18, 2018
Applicant:

Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;

Inventors:

Yuusuke Kurihara, Yamanashi, JP;

Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Yamanashi, JP;

Assignee:

FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2006.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01); G08B 21/02 (2006.01); G08B 21/06 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 19/06 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 9/1694 (2013.01); B25J 19/06 (2013.01); B65G 47/905 (2013.01); G08B 21/02 (2013.01); G08B 21/06 (2013.01); G05B 19/0426 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32358 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40202 (2013.01); Y10S 901/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

A workpiece supply system includes a robot that supplies a workpiece to each of a plurality of workspaces where a worker performs a predetermined task on the workpiece; a detection unit that detects a degree of fatigue of the worker in each of the workspaces; a fatigue degree evaluation unit that determines whether or not the worker is in a fatigued state, based on the degree of fatigue of the worker detected by the detection unit; and a management device that adjusts, among a plurality of workers, a pace of supply of the workpiece to each of the workers, in a case where the worker is determined by the fatigue degree evaluation unit to be in the fatigued state.


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