Automation: crossing the final frontier

Abstract

Describes the historical limitations to full automation and the recent developments in technology and its application that now make full automation possible. Discusses the various layers of control from senior management down to the assembly level and the flow of information up, down and across these layers.

Citation

Fox, P. (2001), "Automation: crossing the final frontier", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 111-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150110388450