Theme Paper.- The Role of ACME in the Direction of Production Research.- Quality and Measurement.- The Development of Ultrasonic Sensors for Ranging and Imaging.- A High Speed Assembly Force Monitoring System for Quality Control.- Modelling Integrated Systems of Quality Control.- Automotive Suppliers: A Survey of Quality Management Methods and Attitudes.- The Influence of Cost, Function and Process Capability on Tolerance.- Problems of Very Long Life Prediction When Employing Short Term (Routine) Test Methods.- Plastic and Composite Materials.- Comparative Flow Properties of the Polyethylenes.- Processing Characteristics of PVC Powder Formulations.- Use of Fibre Reinforced Composites in Robot Structures.- The Use of Composite Materials in Engineering.- CAD.- Blend Design Scheme of Solids with Parametric Surfaces.- Performance Experiments on an Industrial Minicomputer Running Computer-aided Design Software.- Quadratic Surfaces on Triangles and Squares for CAD/CAM.- An Approach to Layout Planning Using a CAD System.- CIM and Expert Systems.- MAP and CIM.- Napier CIM Centre.- An Expert Systems Approach to Machine Tool Selection.- Simulation.- A Modular Simulation Model for FMS Using Structured Techniques.- Performance and Simulation of Heat Treatment Furnaces.- FMS - Simulation and Practice.- A Simulation Tool for Real Time Scheduling of FMS.- Automation.- A Survey of Wire Harness Manufacturing Strategies.- The Development of a Modular Cell Control System for FMS.- An Automated Press Working System.- The Design of a Low Cost System for the Automatic Locating and Clamping of Components within a Flexible Manufacturing Cell.- Robots and Assembly.- Correcting the End Deflection of an Industrial Robot Arm and Employing a Weighing Mechanism on the Robot Arm.- Developments in Post-processing for Offline Robot Programming.- The Presentation of Parts for Robot Assembly.- An Analytical and Modular Approach to Robotic Force Control Using a Wrist-based Force Sensor.- Mathematical Model and Test Method for 'Static' and Dynamic Positional Accuracy Measurement of Robots for Six Degrees of Freedom.- Rapid Estimation of Operation Times for Robotic Assembly.- The Development of Autonomous Devices to Aid Component Assembly.- Small Parts Feeding Using a Horizontal Belt Feeder and a Low Cost Vision System.- An Investigation into the Effect of Inter-transducer Distance on the Voltage-gap Relationship of a Set of Inductive Transducers for Robot 'Static' and Dynamic Positional Accuracy Measurement.- An Intelligent Vacuum Gripper for Robotic Handling.- Determining Flexibility Requirements in Robotic Assembly.- The Use of Compliance in Robotic Assembly.- Work Design and Organization.- How Not to Design a Questionnaire Form!.- A Study of Effectiveness of Some Algerian Production Organizations.- Who Manages Computer-aided Design and Manufacturing?.- Watching Managers at Work: A Research Approach.- Computer Aided Production Management.- A Pragmatic Approach to CAPM in Smaller Companies.- A Petri-net Representation of Computer-aided Production Management.- Computer-aided Flow Shop Scheduling.- Production Management System.- Production Economics.- Technology and the Small Company.- The Relationship between Costing Systems and AMT Investment.- Loss Generated by Poor Production System Specification and Design.- The Development of an In-house PCB Manufacturing Facility.- Product Quality and UK Trade Performance.- The Output and Trade Performance of the UK's Manufacturing Industries.- The Financial Management of Quality as a Strategy.- Manufacturing Systems.- Design For Manufacture: Good Practice and its Implementation.- The Application of SSADM to the Design of Information Systems in Manufacturing.- An Analytical Approach to the Introduction of Advanced Production Systems.- Bridging the Gap between CAD and CAM - GIPPS: A Generative Integrated Process Planning System.- The Development of a Manufacturing Design Procedure.- Low Stock Manufacturing.- Work Loadin
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