Flexible manufacturing system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9370849
APP PUB NO 20150053529A1
SERIAL NO

14451895

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A flexible manufacturing system that makes it possible to give a higher priority to machining of a workpiece that is a super-urgent item is provided. When a pallet to which a workpiece, which is a super-urgent item, is attached is loaded on a loading station, a second controller gives a command to a conveyor to convey a pallet to which a workpiece, which is a normal item, is attached and which is located at a standby position of a pallet changer to a pallet storage room. Then, the second controller controls the conveyor to convey the pallet to which the workpiece, which is the super-urgent item, is attached and which is loaded on the loading station to the standby position.

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JTEKT CORPORATIONKARIYA-SHI AICHI-KEN 448-8652

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ando, Masanori Nishio, JP 60 712
Maseki, Katsuhiro Nagoya, JP 7 26
Sugiura, Takaaki Chita-gun, JP 3 2
Tsujimura, Kazuhiro Okazaki, JP 21 230

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