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Volume 13, Issue 1
1 January 1986
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 13, Issue 1
Review Article| January 01 1986

Automation opens the door to improved quality Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Industrial Robot (1986) 13 (1): 19–25.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004937

Ford has invested over £100,000,000 at Southampton, UK and Genk, Belgium, to automate van body production and reduce labour costs in that area of manufacture. John Mortimer reports.

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