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AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiki Ishida, Keiichi Samekawa, Kenichi Katayama, Yoshifumi Matsumoto, Hideo Ishida, Koichi Kimura
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Producing vehicles by using a plurality of production lines allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step in each line, in accordance with an increase or decrease in the number of vehicles to be produced in the respective production lines, some of the vehicles in one of the production lines which has less of a margin for production are transferred, after passing through the welding step, to another production line at a portion between its welding step and coating step which line has more of a margin for production. With this arrangement, when it becomes necessary to increase or decrease the number of vehicles in the lines, it is possible to produce vehicles without changing the production ability in the respective steps after the welding step, only by adjusting the number of vehicles in the welding step of the production line which has a less of a margin for production.
An apparatus for producing vehicles, said apparatus being provided with first and second production lines for allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step in each of said production lines, comprising:
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