Design of robotic facilities for agile automobile manufacturing

Industrial Robot

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-77

  Kirk, Steve ^a   Tebaldi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; AUTOMOBILE ENGINE MANUFACTURE; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

MANUFACTURING CELL; ROBOTIC CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; TOOLING DESIGN; AGILE AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATORS; PRODUCTION COSTS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030644588     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439919710162728     Document Type: Article

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