Abstract: A control method of efficiently transporting and collecting drugs that have been prepared in a plurality of drug processing units arranged along a conveyor line. Arranged along the conveyor line are a drug pouch printer, a powdered drug processing units, a tablet processing unit, other drug processing unit, a drug inspection unit, etc. Buckets are fed on the conveyor by numerous rollers provided on the conveyor. The drug preparation steps for respective patients are started in the order of the entry of data for the respective patients. But the buckets for the respective patients are started not in this order but the bucket for the patient whose drugs have been prepared first is started first.

Abstract: In a wire-cut discharge machine, a workpiece fixedly mounted on a movable table is returned from the present position to a machining start position so that auxiliary objects, such as clasps for holding the workpiece, and structural objects, such as the nozzle of the wire-cut discharge device, do not interfere with each other. Relative coordinate values between the machining start position and the present position are calculated and the calculated results are displayed on a display device. The workpiece is moved in an X-direction and is then moved in a Y-direction toward the machining start position based on moving data corresponding to the calculated results.