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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1992
Takeshi Kawana, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiyuki Amimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuhiro Fujita, Yokosuka, JP;
Yuuji Enomoto, Yokohama, JP;
Tatsuya Niinomi, Yokohama, JP;
Sadao Ohara, Fujisawa, JP;
Shin Hashizume, Kamakura, JP;
Yasuo Shibasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuhisa Matsunaga, Fujisawa, JP;
Takeshi Yano, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Software and hardware such as part feeding and assembling devices constituting a production system are simplified with the use of a plurality of processing and assembly integrated units in which processing and assembling of parts are coupled and integrated in accordance with products to be produced. The necessities for an automatic warehouse and an automated ground vehicle are eliminated by getting rid of futility of mere movements of the parts. A fundamental idea is that a production system is constructed of units in which three sections--a section for processing a raw material, a check functional section and an assembling section--are integrally combined in accordance with the products to be produced. The parts are processed, checked and assembled by single units just in time while targeting molded parts of plastic and pressed parts.