Industrial Robot: Volume 15 Issue 1

Small company with a big sense of purpose

While many robot equipment suppliers are leaving the business, it is encouraging to hear of new ones entering it. Anna Kochan looks at Garrandale Systems of Derby.

Letting the industrial robot take the grind

Glynne Daniels

Off‐line simulation was used to design, test and program robot motion for a new process. This minimised machine downtime and production loss.

Tallent breaks the mould of one‐customer business

We would not be here today if we had not invested in robots, says Bernard Robinson, director and chief executive of Tallent Engineering. Anna Kochan reports.

Robots for automatic feeding of flexible workstations

Glenn A. Jackson of GMF Robotics, Auburn Heights, Michigan, USA, presents application studies which solve difficult and labour‐intensive material handling problems.

EKCO opens the door to further robotisation

A new type of car door panel will be produced with the aid of a combined robot and laser cell by the EKCO plastics division of LIN PAC Moulding. Anna Kochan investigated.

Toyota moves over to flexible systems

Robots do most of the welding and painting, but little assembly in the revamped Takaoka factory which builds 60,000 Corolla cars a month. John Hartley reports.

The best robot for the job: simulation can help decide

P.A. Mattis, K.D. Gill

Austin Rover Group and Computervision have developed a software package for robotic simulation.

Present status of Japan's advanced robot project

Yasushi Okada

Advanced robotics R&D in Japan has been selected as a national project to develop robots to work in dangerous environments like nuclear power plants, undersea and fire fighting…