Factory of the Future, Volume 4: On the Leading Edge
At SEAT’s automotive plant in Martorell, Spain, autonomous mobile robots deliver parts to the line. They don’t follow a track. They’re simply given a load and told where to go. Twenty-three miles away, engineers at Nissan’s assembly plant in Barcelona use additive manufacturing to produce 100 jigs and fixtures each year. At Merit Medical Systems’ factory in West Jordan, UT, the entire manufacturing process, from molding to packaging, is accomplished with almost no manual labor. This eBook details the leading-edge technologies of Industry 4.0.