Article ID: | iaor1990908 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 28 |
Start Page Number: | 44 |
End Page Number: | 49 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
Authors: | Swinehart Kerry, Boulton William R., Blackstone John H. |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries |
Robotics technologies and applications have increased dramatically in the developed countries in the past decade. Perhaps no country has embraced this new technology as quickly and unreservedly as Japan has. As a result, it is, and by all accounts will continue to be, the world leader in robot manufacture and application.