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
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