AUTOMATION NEED NOT BREAK THE BANK

Consider a family of components coming from a series of machining operations. Before they emerge from the cell, a robot grabs them from a conveyor and puts them into a MARPOSS Quick Set modular gage to measure diameters, lengths, and other features (see photo).

Frank Powell, Product Manager for the PRODAR Division in Marposs Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering.
...

Read the No Break for This Inspector box in the "Automation Need Not Break the Bank" article, that first appeared in the August 2007 issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine.

Copyright Notice: 2007 Copyright by Society of Manufacturing Engineers. All rights retained. This article may only be viewed or printed one (1) time for personal use. User may not save any text or graphical items to hard drives or duplicate this article in whole or in part in any medium. This article appears with permission from Manufacturing Engineering®, the official publication of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). www.sme.org.