To automate a drying process of plated parts or to save labor in the drying process and to dry the plated parts to which barrel plating is applied in lines.

A barrel unit 22 is conveyed to a transfer device 12 by a barrel unit conveying device 23. The plated parts within a barrel are discharged to inside of a hopper of the transfer device 12 and move to inside of a drying container set within a conveying device 13. The drying container storing the plated parts is conveyed to an area in the vicinity of a dryer 14 by the conveying device 13. Then, the drying container is carried to inside of the dryer 14 by a container handling device 15, and the plated parts are dried within the dryer 14. The dried plated parts together with the drying container are taken out of the dryer 14 by the container handling device 15.

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