Industrial Robot: Volume 20 Issue 6

Pushing Back the Barriers of Welding Technology

Phil Sholl

Ricardo Hitec Ltd is pioneering the development of sensor‐controlled robotic systems suitable for use in a variety of environments including hazardous areas typical of the oil…

Lamberton: The Phoenix Returns to the Furnace

Marshall Loudon, Jack Hollingum

In September 1992, Lamberton Robotics became “The Lamberton Robotics Division of James Howden & Company”, the Renfrewshire‐based engineering company, and now enjoys the support of…

Diesel Engine Assembly

Stefan Klein, Claus Madsen

Modern‐day assembly lines for car and truck engines are highly automated installations. Although their basic design, relatively inflexible conveyor systems, and dedicated…

The Aircraft Cleaning Robot “SKYWASH”

R.D. Schraft, M.C. Wanner

Conventional industrial robots are low payload devices and this has been state of the art for many years. The laws of physics mitigate against the easy implementation of large…

A US Consortium Builds Automated Analytical Laboratory

Cheryl Pellerin

Driven by the Department of Energy's (DOE) expected 30‐year clean‐up of its nuclear weapons complex, a research team, co‐ordinated from Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los…

Intelligent Factory Automation with Machine Vision Systems

J.P. Boillot, G. Begin

General Principles of 3‐D Vision Cameras: Vision systems aimed at upgrading on‐line operations of robotic‐based processes are major advances for intelligent automation. On‐line 3D…

Howden Tunnel‐boring Machine

Jack Hollingum

For this review of heavy duty robots Jack Hollingum went to Scotland to see a tunnel‐boring machine just completed by James Howden, and met Dr Owen Davies, Technical Manager, who…