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Volume 3, Issue 2
1 February 1983
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Assembly Automation
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Review Article| February 01 1983

Best solution integrates assembly and testing

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Assembly Automation (1983) 3 (2): 90–92.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004599

A family of disc brake caliper units are assembled and tested at the rate of 600 an hour with only four operators on a £1 million flexible system, delivered last month by Wickman Automation to General Motors France. The system is designed to supply all the variations of caliper units required for Opel cars.

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