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General Motors Facility in Massena, N.Y., to Upgrade Robot Software.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Itai M. Maytal, Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 10--MASSENA, N.Y. -- General Motors Powertrain will install by June three more "vision" software packages that will help its robots better position items on assembly lines.
Engine parts at the plant are sometimes tilted 10 degrees or placed several inches out of alignment when loaded by robots onto a conveyor belt. When this happens, other robots crash into the parts, generating costly downtime and expensive scrap.
General Motors installed software from a company called Braintech Inc. in October that gave one robot three-dimensional vision to deal with this problem, spokesman David E. Rourke said. The company will retrofit three more robots with...
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