Assembly Automation: Volume 13 Issue 1

Automatic Pharmaceutical Inspection

C.S. Roerig

This article reviews automatic inspection within the pharmaceutical industry and deals, in particular, with the application of machine vision to these tasks. Although taking some…

Learning from Visits

Gunter Wittenberg

The “Inside UK Enterprise” activity of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is part of the Department's “Managing in the '90s” programme. That programme is designed to help…

Leica Speeds Up Westland's Lynx Project

Dave Graham, Tim Taylor

To keep pace with demand for its revolutionary Lynx composite main rotor blade, Westland Engineering's Composites Division installed a Wild TA10BL automatic cutting table which…

Ikegami Ties Down Tablet Inspection

Kenny Harada

With trends shifting towards automation and labour saving in the production process in industry, testing and sorting steps associated with visual inspection are still often…

Verification of Automated Pack Assembly

Rosemary Alton

Verification of the correct matching of product and pack has remained one of the last areas in the pharmaceutical industry to become fully automated.

Vision‐guided Robotic Screening of Micro‐organisms

Geoff Waite

In the microbiology laboratories of many pharmaceutical companies, skilled scientists have been spending considerable time conducting repetitive tasks in the search for new drugs…

The Showroom as Assembly Line: New Technology Is Changing the Way in Which Automobiles Are Designed, Developed and Customized

Lance Ealey, Glenn Mercer

In the past, automobile buyers had to choose between the ride of, say, a stretch limousine and the fuel efficiency or manoeuvrability of a small‐sized car. No longer. The emerging…