Human Friendly Production System

From the early stage of production lines, it aimed to accomplish the full automation of production. In 1980's, the goal of fully automated production lines had been accomplished through the introduction of micro-computers, robots, vision systems, etc. But the full automation had many problems such as the difficulty of the production changes, etc. Then, the cell production systems had been introduced in 1990's. They are the human based production system. But the cell production system has also the problems. From 2000's, the advanced cell production system has been pursued. This research shows the advanced cell production system is accomplished by the harmonization of human operators and automatic machines. It should be the human friendly production system. In this paper, the recent history of production systems is introduced. And the functions required for human friendly production system have been discussed.