Browsing by Author "Reed, B"

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    Development of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS)
    (2004) Dhooky, Aruna N D; Sass, Andrew; Reed, B
    This report describes how the latest technology in computing and interfacing has been used in a traditional manufacturing environment to integrate old stand-alone CNC machines, a FANUC robot, a conveyor and a Robot Positioning Device (RPD) into a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). Also described are the benefits that South African manufacturers still using old CNC machines could achieve if they implemented a similar process in their organisation.
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    Modern assembly concepts and applications
    (2001) Omotoso, Pelayo; Sass, Andrew; Reed, B
    This project introduces, and demonstrates assembly concepts that are helping to change the nature of industrial production. The emergence of Concurrent Engineering as a production process ideal is being fuelled in part by some of these assembly concepts. The idea for the project stems from a course on Desing for Manufacture and Assembly, which the author of this thesis attended in 1999. From there, a lot of the work done in the area of assembly has been researched. The understanding of the theory conveyed in this document is based on this information.