ASSEMBLY WITH ROBOTS
Written by Tony Owen
Published by Kogan Page
in 1985
ISBN: 0850389305
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ASSEMBLY WITH ROBOTS
Written by Tony Owen.
Stock no. 687071
1st.
1985.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
Examining when robots should be used for assembly tasks in preference to manual operation or hard automation. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 211 pages including index. ISBN: 0850389305.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- WHY USE ROBOTS?
- Robot versus hard automation
- Robot availability, purchase and viability
- Assessing the robot market
- WHICH CONFIGURATION?
- Specialized robots
- Robot capability
- Which programming method?
- Important elements in robot specifications
- CALCULATION OF CYCLE TIMES
- Methods for calculating cycle time
- Parts trees
- Assessing workload
- GRIPPERS
- Sophisticated gripper versus simple gripper
- Compliance
- Types of grippers
- Gripper design
- Sensory control of grippers
- Gripper classifications
- Multiple robots
- Multiple arm robots
- Multiple grippers
- THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS
- Assembly techniques
- PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY
- Product compatibility
- Method of construction
- Fifteen design rules
- WORKSTATIONS
- The system
- Assembly line balancing
- Balancing a robot line
- Implementation of workstations
- MATERIAL FEEDERS
- Automatic feeders
- Feeding delicate items
- Component manufacture at site of usage
- Feeding consumable materials
- Conveyors
- Automated guided vehicles
- Prepackaged material control
- SENSING AND VISION
- Sensors
- Selecting a suitable sensor
- Automatic inspection
- MAN-MACHINE MIX
- Interaction between man and machine
- Programming
- Man-robot systems
- SAFETY
- Humans at risk from injury by robots
- Safety procedures and devices
- Procedural checks
- EVALUATION OF A ROBOT SYSTEM
- Methods of financial appraisal
- Strategic and tactical justification
- Productivity ratios
- Robot versus manual cost per hour
- Resource graphs
- Cost groups
- The proposal
- ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS
- Assessing costs
- Equilateral triangle
- Direct calculation
- Benefits and toyal expected savings
- Systems for a range of quantities
- Flexible and fixed aspects of automated assembly
- ECONOMICS OF ROBOTS AND GRIPPERS
- The workstation
- The gripper design
- THE FUTURE
- The short-term outlook
- The long-term outlook
- References and bibliography
- Appendix: Assembly robots Available in the USA and the UK
- Index