Issues

Special Issue: Flexible automation with papers from FAIM 2009. Guest Editor: Clive Loughlin

Book review

Nanoscience and Technology: A Collection of Reviews from Nature Journals

Gino Rinaldi
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Global manufacturing: creating the balance between local and global markets

Parisa Gilani; Yasamin Razeghi
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Lean automated manufacturing: avoiding the pitfalls to embrace the opportunities

Hongyi Chen; Richard R. Lindeke; David A. Wyrick
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Fundamental mindset that drives improvements towards lean production

Yuji Yamamoto; Monica Bellgran
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A modular, reconfigurable end effector for the plastics industry

Michael A. Saliba; Andrew Vella Zarb; Jonathan C. Borg
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A CAD system for extraction of mating features in an assembly

Arun Mathew; C.S.P. Rao
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AIDC feasibility within a manufacturing SME

Simon Hodgson; Farhad Nabhani; Sara Zarei
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A solution method for the component allocation problem in printed circuit board assembly

Yongzhong Wu; Ping Ji
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Recognition of interacting volumetric features using 2D hints

Dušan N. Šormaz; Chandu Tennety
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Automatic generation of robot and manual assembly plans using octrees

Hugo Medellin; Jonathan Corney; James Ritchie; Theodore Lim
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An integrated approach to mixed‐model assembly line balancing and sequencing

Mohammad Kamal Uddin; Marian Cavia Soto; Jose L. Martinez Lastra
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Diary

Diary

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Editorial

Modest ambitions

Clive Loughlin
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Mini features

Reducing the cost of automation:Andy Parker-Bates and John Hill of the Automation Group of Parker Hannifin discuss the latest modular automation technology

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Need the benefits of both automated assembly and flexibility for small volume lots?

Richard Bloss
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New products

Honeywell area-imaging scanners ready to read standardized coding on pharmaceutical packaging

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Anybus® RemoteCom™

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News

Fieldbus Foundation praises expanded collaboration on field device integration

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Honeywell and national instruments collaborate on easily configurable test and measurement systems

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Eastern Europe set for automation boom

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Patent abstracts

Patent abstracts

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Viewpoint

Flexible automation can be beneficial to large and small manufacturing

Farhad Nabhani
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Web sites

Web sites

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