Patent ID: 8219232

Claim:
An assembly system assembling a plurality of kinds of automotive parts, each kind including a main body and a part to be installed to the main body, comprising: a plurality of first combined pallets on each of which one main body and one respective part of one of the plurality of kinds of automotive parts are placed in a main body pallet and a first part pallet, respectively; a plurality of second part pallets on each of which one part of one of the plurality of kinds is placed; a first conveyance device conveying one of the first combined pallets; a second conveyance device conveying one of the second pallets; a main line along which an operator is assigned; a bypass line offset from the main line, along which a robot is assigned; a control device controlling thereof, wherein the control device is provided with a conveyance route configuration unit setting a conveyance routes of the first and second conveyance devices by at least one of the main line and the bypass line, a conveyance device drive unit driving the first and second conveyance devices to convey the one first combined pallet and the second pallet synchronously along the conveyance routes set by the conveyance route configuration unit, and a robot drive unit driving the robot along the bypass line to take out the one respective part from the one first combined pallet and then install the one respective part from the first part pallet to the one main body placed on the one first combined pallet.