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Volume 16, Issue 1
1 January 1989
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 16, Issue 1
Review Article| January 01 1989

Ford adds to its robot family Available to Purchase

Wolfgang Klinker
Wolfgang Klinker
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1989
Industrial Robot (1989) 16 (1): 25–28.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005037

100 robots have been installed at Ford's Cologne plant for manufacturing the new Fiesta car body. An investment of DM130 million in automation aims to improve productivity and quality.

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