Assembly Automation: Volume 26 Issue 2
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The international journal of assembly technology and managementTable of contents - Special Issue: Automotive Industry
Guest Editors: Prof. Ernie Appleton
Automation, motivation and lean production reconsidered
Dan Coffey, Carole ThornleyAims to present an alternative way of interpreting unfolding events as these pertain to the organisation of manufacturing practices in the assembly plants of the leading Japanese…
What's happening with machine safety standards and networks?
Richard PigginRecently there has been considerable technological change in the way in which safety‐related control may be engineered. A series of standards based upon IEC 61508 are under…
BMW innovates at new Leipzig assembly plant
Anna KochanTo look at BMW's latest assembly plant in Leipzig and identify new processes and techniques.
Jaguar uses castings, extrusions to reduce parts count in new sports car
John MortimerDescribes how Jaguar Cars in the UK is assembling aluminium car bodies for its new XK sports car that will be manufactured with a production time of 12 hours.
Improved product design as an alternative to outsourcing manufacture and assembly
Andrew Lee‐MortimerHighlights growing concerns, raised from both direct company experience and research, about the present industry trend for outsourcing manufacture and assembly to overseas…
A testbed architecture for Auto‐ID technologies
A. Soylemezoglu, M. J. Zawodniok, K. Cha, D. Hall, J. Birt, C. Saygin, J. SarangapaniThis paper presents an overview on the Auto‐ID (Automatic Identification) technologies testbed that has been established at the University of Missouri‐Rolla (UMR) with the…
A novel peer‐to‐peer distributed sensor network framework based on IP sensor for telemonitoring
Bo Tao, Han Ding, Youlun XiongModern manufacturing plants have a desperate need for large amounts of sensor information, to refine and improve their production. A novel peer‐to‐peer distributed sensor network…
Flexible fixture design with applications to assembly of sheet metal automotive body parts
S. Arzanpour, J. Fung, J.K. Mills, W.L. CleghornTo design a reconfigureable flexible fixture for the assembly of a set of sheet metal automotive body parts. Reconfigureable fixturing permits different parts to be grasped for…
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0144-5154Renamed to:
Robotic Intelligence and AutomationOnline date, start – end:
1980 – 2022Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedEditor:
- Prof Hong Qiao