Industrial Robot: Volume 10 Issue 4
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents
Workmaster goes against the fashion
When the Workmaster company collapsed last year one of its best assets was a heavy duty robot. Ajax Machine Tools who took over the rights of that machine have developed…
Expanding the dimensions of Milacron in Europe
A move into new and larger premises by Cincinnati Milacron's European Robot Division has enabled it to tackle more and bigger robot systems. Brian Rooks has been shown…
Changing the image of automobile manufacture
Spearheading BLs drive into advanced manufacturing is the Manufacturing Automation Technology Group of BL Technology. Brian Rooks has been talking to its manager, Mike Kelly.
Saab uses robots for the assembly of car engines
Saab has introduced robots for the key task of inserting collets into engine valve systems.
A new phase in the manufacturing life of Jaguar
Within about six months the robot population in Jaguar Cars will have increased by seven or eightfold.
Built‐in quality from Alfa's factory in the south
Poor quality and a production imbalance forced Alfa Romeo to rethink the whole of its operation at Pomigliano in Southern Italy. The result is a complete new car, the Alfa…
ESAB turns its face to welding automation for growth
Following a series of acquisitions ESAB is consolidating its efforts, but increasingly it will come to depend on welding automation for growth.
Looking for a big place in UK arc welding
The Swedish company Torsteknik has set up ‘shop’ in the UK in a bid to win an increasing share of arc welding business.
Towards the intelligent American robot
This year's winner of the BRA Travel Award, Stephen Williams of Cambridge University spent his prize by spending two and a half weeks in the USA visiting universities…
New robots all round in Japan
John Hartley reports on the many new robots, and several demonstrations of vision systems seen at the Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
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- Dr Clive Loughlin