CAPABILITIES OF PARALLEL LINK MACHINE TOOLS: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE VARIAX HEXACENTER™

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 1998-R, Issue , 1998, Pages 663-671

  Whittingham, Ben D ^a   Gindy, Nabil N Z ^a   Chrisp, Anthony G ^a   Powell, Nigel P ^a   Geldart, Mark ^a   Al Habaibeh, Amin ^a   Wykes, Catherine M ^a   Ratchev, Svetan M ^a   Webb, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; GAS TURBINES; MANUFACTURE; RRAM;

AEROSPACE MANUFACTURES; ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING; MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL LINKS; RAPID RESPONSE; RESEARCH GROUPS; RESPONSIVE MANUFACTURING; UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 4644369407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE1998-1080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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