摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently convey magazines loaded on a running robot to assembling apparatus even when the treatments on the line is unbalanced. SOLUTION: When a running robot conveys magazines housed in a frame between plural assembling apparatus which form an assembling line, a host computer gives convey instructions to the robot to control the magazine conveying. In the case some assembling apparatus are to do the same treatment and magazines are conveyed to one of them, the host computer retrieves one assembling apparatus having the most untreated magazines already conveyed thereto among those for doing the same treatment (S101-S105) and instructs the robot to convey the magazines loaded thereon to the one apparatus (S106, S108). |