• DocumentCode
    1362460
  • Title

    Spectral lines: The automatic factory

  • Author

    Christiansen, Donald

  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    5/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    33
  • Lastpage
    33
  • Abstract
    Somewhere in the recesses of a mountain chain (the Urals?), buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface, so the story goes, is a truly automatic factory. It has no workers. It runs day and night producing a vital high-technology product ¿ perhaps a missile part. One imagines that visiting it would be like visiting Jack Benny´s money vault, except that no watchman, such as the one employed by Mr. Benny, controls the entry: one enters using a coded plastic card.
  • Keywords
    Computers; Design automation; Machine tools; Manufacturing; Production facilities; Robots; Standards;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1983.6369899
  • Filename
    6369899