A manufacturing system comprises plural types of manufacturing apparatuses driven by operation programs of which language specifications differ from each other. The manufacturing system comprises a cell control apparatus which generates the operation program to be executed in the manufacturing apparatus and communication apparatuses which send the operation programs generated by the cell control apparatus to the respective manufacturing apparatuses. A language specification common to the manufacturing apparatuses of which the types differ from each other is predetermined. The cell control apparatus includes a reading part which reads a common program generated based on the common language specification and a conversion part which converts the common program into the operation programs for the respective manufacturing apparatuses.

A multi-type industrial robot control system may include: an automation controller; and a programmable logic controller (PLC)-robot bridge. The controller stores a general-purpose robot control function block generated using a unified design standard, calls a corresponding robot control function block for a robot and using robot state data and puts out corresponding first command data to the PLC-robot bridge. The PLC-robot bridge virtualizes robot interfaces of corresponding offline programming functions of different types of robot as a unified virtual interface, calls a corresponding offline programming function via the unified virtual interface according to the first command data, and generates second command data for output to a corresponding robot controller. The corresponding robot controller controls a corresponding robot. At the same time, robot state data from a corresponding type of robot is received via the unified virtual interface and the robot state data is fed back to the automation controller.

A manufacturing system comprises plural types of manufacturing apparatuses driven by operation programs of which language specifications differ from each other. The manufacturing system comprises a cell control apparatus which generates the operation program to be executed in the manufacturing apparatus and communication apparatuses which send the operation programs generated by the cell control apparatus to the respective manufacturing apparatuses. A language specification common to the manufacturing apparatuses of which the types differ from each other is predetermined. The cell control apparatus includes a reading part which reads a common program generated based on the common language specification and a conversion part which converts the common program into the operation programs for the respective manufacturing apparatuses.