The Changing Face of Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 9th Annual British Robot Association Conference, 13-14 May 1986, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK

ISBN-13: 9783642954931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 355 str.

Jacques Albin Simon Collin De Plancy

Opis

by J. A. Collins, aBE President of the British Robot Association T is my pleasure, on behalf of the Council and myself, investment in productive assets of which the robot can be Ito welcome you to the 9th Annual Conference of the seen as an important yardstick. It is therefore with British Robot Association. This year, 1986, has been considerable pleasure that the BRA is able to announce designated Industry Year to draw attention to the place the publication, this year, ofa survey of robots in industry of British industry in the life of the community as a covering the period since their introduction into British whole. This, by various means, both official and some industry to the present day. unwitting, has raised the political visibility of manu The research for this work has been carried out by the facturing industry. Of particular note was the publication Policy Studies Institute (PSI) on behalf ofthe BRA and the of the Select Committee of the House of Lords report on costs of the work have been borne by the generous assist British Overseas Trade, in that it draws attention to the ance of the Gatsby Foundation, the DTI and NEDO."

Spis treści

Managing Change.- Cost Effectiveness with New Technology.- Vision/Sensing in Manufacturing.- New generation of Seamtracking Systems.- VICTER: Visual Inspection and Calibration TEst by Robot.- Some Applications of Non-Contact Sensors in Automated Industrial Metrology.- Integrated Material Handling.- A Sensorized Manipulation System for Food Industry Products.- FTS Applications in Automobile Factories.- Flexible Electronic Assembly.- The Electronics Industry — Achieving a Competitive Edge.- A Totally Flexible System for PC Board Assembly.- Achieving Flexibility in Assembly through Technology and People.- Robots in Electronics Assembly.- Design for Automated Manufacture.- Products Management in an Automated Environment.- From 14 Parts to 6: An Approach to Design for Manufacture.- Cost Effective Design on Silicon.- Integration of the Manufacturing Business.- CIM — a Realistic Approach.- A Causeway for the Automation Swamp.- An Analysis of Production Automation in Britain: The Way to Success.- Supplementary Papers.- A Manufacturing System Programmer’s Planning Assistant.- ‘Machine Vision’ — A Tool for Automation.- Use of Robot ROKI 200 in Electronic and Electromechanical Industry.- Approximate Joint Trajectories for Arc Welding Robot Cartesian Path Control.- A Robot Multisensory Feedback System.- The Development of a Robot Post-Processor: A Tool for Offline Robot Programming.- The Grinding of Surfaces with Industrial Robots.- Accurate Picking and Placing of Fabric Panels for Subsequent Joining.- Robot Target Tracking System.- Late Papers.- A Modular Approach to Flexible Assembly Systems (FAS).- Introducing an Automatic Materials-Handling System.- Managing Change: The Progression towards Automation at IBM Greenock.- Management of Technological Change in the Vehicle Industry.- Managing Change: Traditional Processes — New Solutions. The JCB Experience.- Making Waves.- A Spark Plug Electrode Inspection System.- Automated Order Picking: The Last Piece of the Integrated Handling Jigsaw.- Design for Manufacture: An Example from Consumer Appliances.- Business Revolution in the Making.