Structuring of Sekisui Heim Automated Parts Pickup System (HAPPS) to Process Indivisual Floor Plans

Sekisui Heim residential houses (herein “Heim”) are made of factory-produced modules called “Units” which can be combined to complete any house plan. All “Units” to compose a house are unique and have different parts in different combinations. It is an important process to select and pick up about 30,000 parts correctly for each house, out of about 300,000 listed parts and feed them to the production line in time of work.

In this paper, the writer will introduce to you how to pick up the parts constituting Heim units, and certain technical points of the “HAPPS” (Heim Automated Part Pick-up System) which has materialized such method. In the end, the writer will touch on the efficiency and accuracy of such part pick-up method.