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Volume 16, Issue 4
1 December 1996
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Assembly Automation
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Review Article| December 01 1996

Prodel – islands of automation

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Assembly Automation (1996) 16 (4): 34–37.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159610151034

Features the French assembly system designer, Prodel, and its UK systems integrator, Schenck Automation Systems, reporting great success with its new modular design, owing to its flexibility and simplicity. Looks at its application at Strix, a manufacturer of electric kettle switches, which is in the initial stages of introducing assembly automation.

Keywords: Automated operations, Flexible assembly systems, Systems design
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