Industrial Robot: Volume 9 Issue 2

SPOTLIGHT ON: A change of gear for the painting robot pioneer

The Norwegian company Trallfa built its first robot for painting over 16 years ago and has been pioneering this application ever since. Now it is about to launch a range…

Swedish industries' experience with robots

Jan Carlsson, Håkan Selg

Based on a leading‐edge technique analysis the diffusion of industrial robots in Sweden during the 70's and a forecast for the 80's is described. The actual use of robots…

Structured hardware and software for robots

J. Middleton

The design and implementation of microprocessor‐based hardware and software modules developed to control a range of workhandling equipment are described.

Selection of a manufacturing process for robots

M.S. Janjua

A decision tree methodology for selecting the use of robots in a manufacturing system has been developed for sheet metal work.

Adding value to Japanese technology

Collaborative deals between Japanese and major USA companies have been hitting the headlines recently. The UK government has been trying to encourage similar deals on this…

Now it's time for rate‐fixing for robots

S.Y. Nof, H. Lechtman

MTM and other time measurement systems have been applied to human operators for many years. Now it is the time for robots to come under similar scrutiny. RTM uses…

Machine servicing ‐ a profitable role for industrial robots

Prab Robots is one of the USA's big robot manufacturers specialising in a wide variety of machine servicing operations. Two installations in the USA are described here.

New electric drive robots for Europe

Eight years after introducing its first industrial robot Cincinnati Milacron has expanded its range with a new series of electric drive robots. These were first seen in…