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Volume 6, Issue 4
1 April 1986
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Assembly Automation
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Review Article| April 01 1986

Running like clockwork: assembly automation at Timex

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Assembly Automation (1986) 6 (4): 187–189.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004702

Over the past decade Timex has switched from making millions of watches every year to becoming an ultra‐high‐volume automated assembler of consumer electronics, as Stephen McClelland explains.

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