IMPACT OF ROBOTS ON PRODUCT RELIABILITY.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-1985

Abstract

With robots appearing more often as industry rebuilds itself, there is a need to look at their impact on product reliability. The author discusses why the robots will force' companies to buy better raw materials, do a better analysis of manufacturing methods, increase the use of in-process automatic testing and improve the products' handling characteristics. It is concluded that robots will allow for designing to a higher reliability level because of the improvement of manufacturing processes. Finally, it is shown how the use of robots will result in less scrap and rework, which should reflect itself in fewer catastrophic and early failures. 7 refs.

Identifier

0022269090 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

ISSN

0149144X

First Page

464

Last Page

466

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