Factories of the future: in the loop

Posted on 17 Nov 2015 by Jonny Williamson

Jonny Williamson talks to the team behind Meggitt’s Closed Loop Adaptive Assembly Workbench, the ground-breaking first step in a project to improve production output, quality, flexibility and traceability in component assembly.

A cross-section of the intelligent workbench. The Meggitt Modular Modifiable Manufacturing (M4) project combines existing and future technologies in the hopes of creating intelligent, responsive environments, revolutionising component assembly and transforming operators’ working conditions. Central to this vision is the intelligent workbench, known as the Closed Loop Adaptive Assembly Workbench (CLAAW), representing…

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