.... Reviews a self‐piercing fastening system which is adapted to the new aluminium and lightweight steels now being introduced in car design. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Assembly Automotive components industry Manufacturing technology Welding Laser welding gives higher tensile and fatigue...

..., Actis, which supplied Brightwood with Stäubli RX90 robots to perform cementing and roughing processes. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Footwear industry Industrial robots Manufacturing technology Features Actis and the shoe industry Anna Kochan The author Anna Kochan is European correspondent...

...Anna Kochan Reviews the different technologies including fasteners, conveyors, assembly machines and controllers exhibited recently at Euro‐Assemblage, Paris, mainly by French and Swiss companies. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Assembly Exhibitions Manufacturing technology Features Swiss...

...” for stiffening insoles; and machines for conditioning and lasting uppers into shape. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Footwear industry Manufacturing technology Features Quick-change automation for shoe manufacture Jack Hollingum The author Jack Hollingum is UK correspondent for Assembly Automation. Abstract...

... is being designed for very large prototypes. It will build them from 1in. thick polystyrene sheets using a hot wire cutting system that is being specially developed to cut at an angle to eliminate the step-type surfaces that would otherwise result. 29 © MCB UP Limited 1996 Manufacturing...

... in equipment for use in production of printed circuit boards; and methods for dealing with the pollution problem related to printed circuit board production. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Manufacturing technology Printed circuits Product technology Waste Features Productronica 95: wafers and waste...