A move into new and larger premises by Cincinnati Milacron's European Robot Division has enabled it to tackle more and bigger robot systems. Brian Rooks has been shown round these enhanced facilities.

Spearheading BLs drive into advanced manufacturing is the Manufacturing Automation Technology Group of BL Technology. Brian Rooks has been talking to its manager, Mike Kelly.

Saab has introduced robots for the key task of inserting collets into engine valve systems.

Within about six months the robot population in Jaguar Cars will have increased by seven or eightfold.

Poor quality and a production imbalance forced Alfa Romeo to rethink the whole of its operation at Pomigliano in Southern Italy. The result is a complete new car, the Alfa 33, and an advanced technology factory.

Following a series of acquisitions ESAB is consolidating its efforts, but increasingly it will come to depend on welding automation for growth.

The Swedish company Torsteknik has set up ‘shop’ in the UK in a bid to win an increasing share of arc welding business.

This year's winner of the BRA Travel Award, Stephen Williams of Cambridge University spent his prize by spending two and a half weeks in the USA visiting universities, research institutes, and industrial companies. He presents some of his views and findings.

John Hartley reports on the many new robots, and several demonstrations of vision systems seen at the Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.

Following the Automan exhibition the welding systems marketed by WRA of Wolverhampton are becoming increasingly automated.