Teaching program automatic generation apparatus

An automatic teaching program generation apparatus to generate programs for control of a plurality of facilities operable for a car assembly site, said generation apparatus comprising:

• an operation registration file for storing sequential operation contents required to perform an assembly process;
• an operation content-facility table for identifying all of the facilities for each of all the operation contents, wherein at least two facilities are capable for performing at least one of the operation contents;
• an operation content-work table for identifying operation contents for each of all the target works;
• a facility individual program module for after selecting one facility out of at least the two facilities specifying for respective facilities a program module for each operation content with respect to each of the corresponding works;
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• a facility program formation unit connected to both the operation content-facility table and the operation content-work table to load the specified program module to each of the selected facilities.

A teaching program automatic generation apparatus, for a plurality of facilities comprising:

• a car-type classified operation registration file for storing, for each car-type, sequential operation contents performed and target works each corresponding to each of the sequential operation contents;
• an operation content-facility table for identifying a facility for each of all of the operation contents necessary to be executed for all of the car-types wherein at least two facilities are capable for performing at least one of the operation contents;
• an operation content-work table for identifying operation contents for each of all the target works;
• a facility individual program module for, after selecting one facility out of at least the two facilities, storing, for respective facilities, a program module for each operation content with respect to each of the corresponding works;
• a car-type specifying unit for specifying a car-type serving as an operation target;
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• a facility program formation unit for, on the basis of information of the car-type specified by said car-type specifying means, loading the sequential operation contents and the corresponding target works required for the specified car-type from said car-type classified operation registration file, and extracting, for each of the respective facilities, program modules for executing the loaded sequential operation contents from said facility individual program module to form series of programs for each of the facilities.