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Automation: crossing the final frontier

Peter Fox (Peter Fox is at ABB Automation, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2EL, UK.)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 1 June 2001

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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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Fox, P. (2001), "Automation: crossing the final frontier", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 111-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150110388450

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MCB UP Ltd

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