Industrial Robot Handbook

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Robots in Industry

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 1-9

3. How an Industrial Robot Works

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 10-25

4. Grippers and Tactile Sensing

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 26-46

5. Fundamentals of Machine Vision

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 47-60

6. The Robot Manufacturing Cell

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 61-69

7. Economic Justification

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 70-76

8. Organizing an In-Plant Program

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 77-82

9. Robot Applications for Batch Manufacturing and Job Shops

   • Richard K. Miller

   Pages 83-89

10. Safety Considerations

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 90-96

11. The Automotive Industry

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 97-101

12. Aerospace Applications

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 102-109

13. Machine Tool Loading

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 110-126

14. Robotic Machining

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 127-130

15. Punch Press Loading

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 131-145

16. Spot Welding

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 146-152

17. Arc Welding

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 153-173

18. Forging

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 174-182

19. Spray Painting

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 183-197

20. Grinding and Deburring

    • Richard K. Miller

    Pages 198-205

These are exciting times for manufacturing engineers. It has been said that American industry will undergo greater changes during the 1980 and 1990 decades than it did during the entire eight preceding decades of this century. The industrial robot has become the symbol of this progress in computer-integrated manufacturing. This book is for engineers and managers in manufacturing industries who are involved in implementing robotics in their operations. With tens of thousands of industrial robots already in use in the United States, there are plenty of role models for proposed applications to be patterned after. This book provides an overview of robot applications and presents case histories that might suggest applications to engineers and managers for implementation in their own facilities. The application of industrial robots were well developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While the reader may note some of the examples discussed in this handbook incorporate older robot models, it is the application that is of interest. As Joseph Engelberger, the founding father of robotics has pointed out, industrial robots in 1988 are "doing pretty much the same kind of work" as they did in 1980.

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