Manufacture of reconfigurable assembly cells

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team May 8, 2006

TQC and the Precision Manufacturing Group at the University of Nottingham, with be attending the MACH exhibition to show the results of the E-RACE European Project for the first time.

Development Partners, TQC and the Precision Manufacturing Group (PMG) at the University of Nottingham, with be attending the 5 day MACH exhibition (15th to 19th May) at the NEC in Birmingham to show the results of the E-RACE European Project for the first time.

The 4 year project has developed 'A Collaborative E-Space for the Manufacture of Reconfigurable Assembly Cells', or in more engineering terms, a website which helps in the development of automatic assembly equipment.

This project looks from the sides of the customers, system intergrators and suppliers, to allow a common ground when defining automated assembly procedures and processes.

Associates from TQC and PMG will be presenting the website on the BARA Village Stand in Hall 5, practical demonstrations showing the work to date with be on show throughout the week.

The E-RACE project has 23 members from 4 European countries.

Research Partners include VTT Manufacturing Technology, Helsinki, Finland, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Industrial Partners include Bespak, Desoutter Sales, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Riley Automation and System Devices , with 2 supporting partners, The British Automation and Robot Association and the Electronics-Enables Products Knowledge-Transfer Network (grew out of PRIME Faraday) helping with exposure of the project.

For more information on this exciting and innovative project please visit out stand at MACH 06 or contact Project Manager TQC for further information.