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Volume 15, Issue 2
1 February 1988
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 15, Issue 2
Review Article| February 01 1988

Robots optimise waterjet cutting at Ford Genk

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Industrial Robot (1988) 15 (2): 97–100.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005017

A pilot project at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Genk, Belgium, uses robot‐guided waterjets to cut holes in bumpers for Sierra cars.

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