MARK III, a new approach to high-variant, medium-volume flexible automatic assembly cells

Robotica

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-368

  Onori, M A ^a   Grondahl P ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Swed Inst of Prod Eng Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

FAA; Modular; Reversed material flow; Sub batch principle; Task oriented

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY (FAA) CELLS; REVERSED MATERIAL FLOW; SOFTWARE PACKAGE FACE; SUB BATCH PRINCIPLES;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0032074126     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574798000411     Document Type: Article

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