Patent ID: 7136825

Claim:
A work assignment system for assigning and composing a work formed from a plurality of work units to a plurality of stations, comprising: display means for displaying names of the plurality of work units; condition input means for inputting a user-selected manufacturing condition; assignment means for dividing the plurality of work units in accordance with the user-selected manufacturing condition and assigning one group of the divided work units to a station, said assignment means comprises user interface means for attaching information representing parallel operation of works to the plurality of work units, and making a plurality of composition plans in consideration of the attached parallel operation and sending the composition plans to said output means, and code attachment means for causing a user to attach a single group code to a plurality of work units in order to assign the plurality of work units to a single station; and output means for outputting an assignment result of the work units of each station to a work assignment file as a composition plan, said output means assigns work units having the same group code to a station corresponding to the group code, wherein each work standard as an assignment target has data representing continuous and parallel operations of work units, and said assignment means comprises means for detecting that the user executes, for an arbitrary work standard, group designation to alter the continuous and parallel operations through said code attachment means, and means for, when the detection is done, outputting a warning message or inhibiting the group designation.