Manufacturing Industry
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Advanced Materials & Processes, June, 2003
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June 1983: An industrial robot will be used to load and remove gears from a carburizing furnace to one of six different quench presses at the new Asheville, N.C., plant of the Truck Axle Div. of Rockwell International's Heavy Vehicles Components Operations. The GCA/XR Extended Reach robot, supplied by GCA/Industrial Systems Group, Naperville, Ill., boasts a 20 by 70 ft (6 by 21 m) work envelope, making it an economical alternative in this application to several stationary robots and a complex conveyor system.
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