Automation: crossing the final frontier
Peter Fox
(Peter Fox is at ABB Automation, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2EL, UK.)
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Abstract
Describes the historical limitations to full automation and the recent developments in technology and its application that now make full automation possible. Discusses the various layers of control from senior management down to the assembly level and the flow of information up, down and across these layers.
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Citation
Fox, P. (2001), "Automation: crossing the final frontier", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 111-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150110388450
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited