Patent ID: 8863803

Claim:
An absorbent-article manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article by performing processing on and discharging an adhesive onto a workpiece related to the absorbent article while conveying the workpiece in a conveying direction, the absorbent-article manufacturing apparatus comprising: a first-reference-signal outputting section configured to output a first reference signal indicating a conveyance amount of the workpiece; a second-reference-signal outputting section configured to output a second reference signal indicating the conveyance amount of the workpiece; a processing device configured to perform processing on the workpiece on the basis of a drive signal; an adhesive discharging device configured to discharge the adhesive toward the workpiece on the basis of a discharge signal; and a controller configured to generate the drive signal and the discharge signal, wherein the second-reference-signal outputting section is configured to generate, as the second reference signal, a simulated signal of the first reference signal, at the time of manufacturing the absorbent article, the controller generates the drive signal on the basis of the first reference signal output from the first-reference-signal outputting section and outputs the drive signal to the processing device, and the controller also generates the discharge signal on the basis of the first reference signal and outputs the discharge signal to the adhesive discharging device, and at the time of inspecting a discharge amount of the adhesive discharged from the adhesive discharging device, the controller generates the discharge signal on the basis of the second reference signal output from the second-reference-signal outputting section and outputs the discharge signal to the adhesive discharging device, the controller does not output the drive signal to the processing device, the first reference signal from the first-reference-signal outputting section is stopped from being output, the simulated signal is input to the controller, and the controller generates the discharge signal on the basis of the simulated signal and outputs the discharge signal to the adhesive discharging device.