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ONE of the rising stars in the machine tool rebuild business is Saville Machine Tools of Halifax. In mid‐1989 the company moved into its new 28,000ft2 factory. This was the culmination of nine years of consistent growth.

The Olivetti SIGMA robot has been pioneering robot assembly for five years. In this article the experience gained and the problems that have occurred are discussed.

Quality control with a large content of data processing, represents an important field of robot application because of the inherent objectivity and consistency which robots possess.

DURING the last 3 years, aerospace companies within the UK have undertaken extensive modernisation of their machine tool inventories. This included an evaluation of sort of CNC control needed to take their technology into the next century.

THE floor‐to‐floor time to manufacture component parts for an aircraft generator has been halved from one year to six months at the Power Systems Division of Lucas Aerospace, Hemel Hempstead, following reorganisation of its shop floor into production cells.

PROFESSIONALISM in Manufacturing Engineering should not only be measured by the degree of success in current performance, but also by the quality of decisions made today which will affect output performance and competitiveness ten to fifteen years in the future. Obviously, the further ahead one tries to foresee the future in the control of machine tools, the less accurate will be the reality. This paper describes the actions being taken in one manufacturing facility based on a concept of how Turbine and Compressor Discs will be produced fifteen years from now.

Assembly by robot has been a challenging goal for research and industry from the very beginning of industrial robot development.

THERE is much criticism of the Government's avowed intention to hive off nationalised industries, either wholly or piecemeal.