Workpiece supply system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsYuusuke KURIHARA, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
A workpiece supply system includes a robot that supplies a workpiece to each of a plurality of workspaces where a worker performs a predetermined task on the workpiece; a detection unit that detects a degree of fatigue of the worker in each of the workspaces; a fatigue degree evaluation unit that determines whether or not the worker is in a fatigued state, based on the degree of fatigue of the worker detected by the detection unit; and a management device that adjusts, among a plurality of workers, a pace of supply of the workpiece to each of the workers, in a case where the worker is determined by the fatigue degree evaluation unit to be in the fatigued state.
Claims10
A workpiece supply system comprising:
- a robot that supplies a workpiece to each of a plurality of workspaces where a worker performs a predetermined task on the workpiece;
- a detection unit that detects a degree of fatigue of the worker in each of the workspaces;
- a determination unit that determines whether or not the worker is in a fatigued state, based on the degree of fatigue of the worker detected by the detection unit;
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- an adjustment control unit that adjusts, among the plurality of workspaces, a pace of supply of the workpiece to each of the workspaces by the robot, in a case where the worker is determined by the determination unit to be in the fatigued state.
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