All day & all of the night: production never sleeps in this Japanese "lights-out" factory.: An article from: Wood & Wood Products

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From the supplier: Hikari Furniture Co., a company that manufactures china cabinets and chairs, uses an automaton called RoboTech System to make its furniture. The RoboTech System is a pre-programmed unsupervised workcell run by six computers which are controlled by a specially developed software. The system has an average of 21 hours of operation, six days a week for more than two years. It accounts for 60% of the factory's production capacity.

Citation Details
Title: All day & all of the night: production never sleeps in this Japanese "lights-out" factory.
Author: Rich Christianson
Publication:Wood & Wood Products (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Vance Publishing Corp.
Volume: v101 Issue: n5 Page: p43(6)

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