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Today’s global market and increased competition between companies necessitate the development of production systems that are agile and responsive to change. This paper presents the results of a project where a flexible and reconfigurable robotic working cell was developed. There has been a strong focus on ease-of-use, reconfigurability and visual management throughout the project. The resulting robotic working cell has been evaluated as a prototype in a laboratory and developed into a production module; used in production at a manufacturing plant in Sweden. A discussion around the concept of reconfigurable robotic working cells will be presented, together with relevant theory.
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Hedelind, M. (2008). On Reconfigurable Robotic Working Cells — a Case Study. In: Mitsuishi, M., Ueda, K., Kimura, F. (eds) Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-267-8_66
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