• DocumentCode
    890659
  • Title

    Cutting costs in inspection processes

  • Volume
    66
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    3/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    54
  • Abstract
    When Birfield Extrusions incorporated a robot into an inspection cell at its plant, it found that along with all the expected savings in time and energy, a dramatic reduction in work-in-progress substantially contributed to financing the installation. Here we examine what happened.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Production Engineer
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0032-9851
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/tpe.1987.0055
  • Filename
    4938101