A strong showing for assembly as manufacturing week bows out

A report of the 2001 Manufacturing Week exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham, highlighting some of the exhibits of assembly equipment manufacturers. Amongst the larger companies in focus are the Swiss company, Mikron and Rexroth Bosch, the new amalgamation following the sale of Rexroth's original corporate owner, Mannesmann. Rexroth Bosch showed a new compact Scara robot and flexible link conveyor, while Mikron emphasised its product evolution in the high volume, flexible assembly field and its partnership philosophy. There is a description of two Mikron installations in the telecoms and medical industries. Other contents include two rotary indexing machine suppliers and a special purpose equipment manufacturer who exhibited a machine assembling water filter cartridges.