Industrial Robot: Volume 8 Issue 1

Metro's robots show the world how to build small cars

The Metro production line at Longbridge is turning out more cars than had originally been planned. And the robots on the line are playing their part in helping to raise output.

Robotics in the UK

Recently two surveys have been carried out in the United Kingdom looking at the current robotic scene. The British Robot Association has collected information on the number of…

Automated welding of truck cabs

S.L. Rosswell

The first application of robotic welding for assembly of commercial vehicles in the UK is claimed in this article. They were helped by using computer simulation graphics at the…

Operating and idle times for cyclic multi‐machine servicing

W. Baumann, R. Birner, J. Haeusler, R.‐P. Hartmann

When several machine tools are serviced by one industrial robot their idle times should be kept as short as possible. In this paper, a deterministic model is developed to optimise…

Robots are easy… it's everything else that's hard

David T. Cosineau

The robot is proving itself to be a reliable and effective automation tool and users are finding them relatively easy to install. But the main problems surround the peripherals…

Keeping up with momentum in new robot designs

John Hartley

A clutch of new robots has emerged from Japanese firms. They are aimed at assembly, loading and unloading machine tools and arc welding. John Hartley reports.