Patent ID: 8483862

Claim:
A working system; comprising: a manpower working area that is provided along a conveyance path and in which a plurality of operators are deployed; a robot working area that is provided along the conveyance path on an upstream side of the manpower working area and in which a plurality of robots are disposed; and a buffer space provided at a boundary portion between the robot working area and the manpower working area, the manpower working area being configured for continuous transfer of a work, and the robot working area being configured for tact-transfer of the work, wherein a length l 2 of the buffer space is determined by the following formula: l 2 =l T +( t+t f )· v, where l T is a length of one tact segment in tact-transfer, t is a time during which the conveyance of the work by way of tact-transfer is interrupted for a case where a fault occurs in a robot, t f is a time after the conveyance of the work is restarted until the work for which the conveyance has been interrupted undergoes accelerated-transfer to be spilled out into the buffer space, and v is a conveyance speed of the work.