Grouping parts into families for automatic assembly

Abstract

Robots are not the only answer to assembly of parts in batch quantities. A so called dedicated machine can assemble a variety of parts by grouping them into families. Brian Rooks recently saw such a machine at the Trent Works, of Vaughan Associates and now presents his report.

Citation

(1982), "Grouping parts into families for automatic assembly", Assembly Automation, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004155