Publications / 2006 Proceedings of the 23rd ISARC, Tokyo, Japan
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.