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Mock Assembly Lines Work Out Glitches

Posted May 29, 2007 11:22 AM

From Yahoo! News: Technology News:

ZAMA, Japan - Like any auto plant, robots are whirring, swinging huge mechanical arms. Yet the assembly lines at Nissan's new Global Production Engineering Center are there for testing purposes only. The nearly baseball-stadium-size building, shown to reporters Tuesday, is part of Nissan Motor Co.'s effort to work out possible kinks in production for the 30 new model launches Japan's No. 3 automaker is planning for this fiscal year through March 2008.

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05/30/2007 2:54 AM

I used to work for a company that created miniature factories in every detail that were controlled by PLCs. In this case the PLCs were from FRANCE, Telemechanique. The idea was once you worked out the kinks in the miniature factory, you were ready to deploy the software in a full-blown factory. The result...

The Federal government picked it up as a way to train out of work factory workers about how to program PLCs.

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05/30/2007 8:29 AM

We now have CAE software (Technomatix's RobCad and Delmia's Deneb) available to digitally mockup a virtual plant from floor layout, machinery, robots and tooling. Allows us to simulate to a high degree of reliability the process of building any product. Used this software extensively at Honda and Chrysler to mockup weld and paint lines.

http://www.3ds.com/products-solutions/automation/overview/

http://www.ugs.com/products/tecnomatix/

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