Assembly Automation: Volume 27 Issue 4

Design for disassembly: a critical twenty‐first century discipline

This paper aims to highlight the importance of the design for disassembly (DFD) concept and to consider the key DFD principles.

AMTRI accelerates assembly automation

This paper seeks to investigate the work of a small company involved in researching techniques and designing equipment for assembly automation.

When your assembly system controller can be more than just a controller

This paper sets out to present how manufacturing system controllers can be an important part of a total system of real‐time manufacturing metrics data gathering and analysis as…

Leading UK manufacturer probes the potential of six sigma

The purpose of this paper is to detail the reasons behind, and the successful process adopted for, the introduction of a six sigma programme within a leading, and award‐winning…

Linking product design in CAD with assembly operations in CAM for virtual product assembly

Virtual product design has become a key technology in reducing costly design errors that are often difficult to detect manually. In order to evaluate product assembly in a virtual…

Prediction of geometrical variations in Airbus wingbox assembly

This paper aims to present a method for predicting dimensional variation in assembly processes of a wingbox structure concentrating on the assembly of skin panels to rib feet.

A software framework for coping with heterogeneity in the shopfloor

The CIM framework pursues the integration of components in a manufacturing enterprise by means of computer systems. This, however, may be obstructed due to heterogeneity in the…

Automated assembly of fuselage skin panels

This paper aims to describe the development and testing of a system for the automated assembly of aircraft fuselage panels.

ESI Group and Chengdu Aircraft Industry form strategic collaboration

Principal barriers to the future of autonomous assembly

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Fieldbus calibrator cuts commissioning time and maintenance costs of plant fieldbus systems

Production upgrade through vision solution

Integral Mechanical Attachment: A Resurgence of the Oldest Method of Joining

OGP ZIP 250 improves measurement capability at Stanley Tools

Schneeberger MINISCALE miniature linear motion guide bearings include position feedback

New electrical cylinder provides programmable positioning

Contax Launches New Essemtec FLX2010-LCV

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Inventor of numerical control for machine tools – dead at 93

Ramsis Ergonomic Software Launched in UK

Disassembling planet Earth

New Hiperdrive Hub reduces cost of automatic size change by up to 30 per cent

Innovative stamp-handling machine provides high-speed solution for philatelic industry

Top design agency appoints modular automation to build assembly equipment for new windscreen repair system

Universal instruments launch world's fastest quad-gantry machine

New ANT-LX miniature translation stage delivers 2.5nm resolution with 5g acceleration and 500mm/s velocity