PURPOSE: To provide a system for carrying out a workpiece-related work, particularly a device and method for applying coating to a prescribed part of a circuit board.

CONSTITUTION: Suck a work, as a work program-controlled and performed in an arbitrary order and in various types on the revolving table 31 of the device 30, such as coating a circuit board, for example, is performed on a workpiece 81 in the manner of an assembly line. A series of table parts 32 is moved from the section 36 for loading/unloading the work 81 to the section 37 for detecting the type and direction of each work 81, then to the section 38 for carrying out an operation on the work 81 in accordance with the type and direction detected previously in the section 37, and back to the loading/unloading section 36.