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Volume 28, Issue 6
1 December 2001
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 28, Issue 6
Case Report| December 01 2001

Robots at the heart of fully automated Mini bodyshop

John Mortimer
John Mortimer
John Mortimer is an Associate Editor for Industrial Robot.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Industrial Robot (2001) 28 (6): 466–472.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006088

A new manufacturing plant has been installed in Oxford, UK, to manufacture the new BMW Mini car. An important aspect of the £230 million investment at the site is the fully automated body‐in‐white assembly shop containing 230 robots.

Keywords: Motor industry, Robots, Sensors, Welding
© MCB UP Limited
2001
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