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Volume 29, Issue 6
1 December 2002
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 29, Issue 6
Technical Paper| December 01 2002

New bodyshop paves the way to flexible car assembly

John Mortimer
John Mortimer is a freelance manufacturing and engineering journalist based at Milton Keynes, UK.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
2002
Industrial Robot (2002) 29 (6): 503–506.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910210449454

Two models of the Vauxhall Vectra passenger car are now manufactured at Ellesmere Port, UK where there is a completely new bodyshop with over 600 Fanuc robots. John Mortimer reports.

Keywords: Automotive industry, Robots, Sensors, Ultrasonic
© MCB UP Limited
2002
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