TY - JOUR AB - Shows how providing robotic solutions for a variety of shoe making processes has enabled Brightwood, the Florida‐based manufacturer of athletics shoes, to compete with off‐shore production where manual labour does similar tasks. Looks at the French shoe manufacturing equipment company, Actis, which supplied Brightwood with Stäubli RX90 robots to perform cementing and roughing processes. VL - 16 IS - 3 SN - 0144-5154 DO - 10.1108/01445159610126393 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159610126393 AU - Kochan Anna PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Actis and the shoe industry T2 - Assembly Automation PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 30 EP - 31 Y2 - 2024/09/20 ER -