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Volume 16, Issue 3
1 September 1996
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Assembly Automation
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Review Article| September 01 1996

Robots bring automation to shoe production

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Assembly Automation (1996) 16 (3): 22–25.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159610126366

Demonstrates the advanced state of automation in the footwear industry by reporting on the working operations of two companies, Totectors in Rushden, Northamptonshire, and Eccolet Sko, the Danish shoemaker.

Keywords: Assembly, Automation, Footwear industry, Industrial robots
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