HOW TO BUILD A LINKAGE BETWEEN HIGH QUALITY ASSURANCE PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND PRODUCTION SUPPORT AUTOMATED SYSTEM

Abstract

In order to maintain the planned production volume for potential disaster, Japanese manufacturing industry needs to develop and rebuild the global production that strengthens QCD. The keys to fulfill this need are automated facility, human skills to operate the facility (production operator), and a production system incorporated with the production data systems that activates the facility and human system subject to overseas plant conditions. Therefore, the authors have created a new system that ensures the necessity of building new production system for global production, eliminates ambiguity among the processes of production planning, production preparation, production and process control, and builds the linkage among the processes. This paper is to describe the effectiveness of the newly created systems for the above-specified objectives. Especially the highly accurate robot production system has been tested and confirmed at Toyota Motor Corporation.