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Re:Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the W... by lnsru on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:46AM (#19398108)
How are these robots programmed? Just a sequence of position movements and affector actions depending on few digital inputs of light curtains or sensors?
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Re:Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the W... by bluedino on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:14AM (#19399857)
In the most simple cases, yes. Parametric programming is popular, where you can define an item and then scale it in a number of factors and only need one program for thousands of possible premutations of that item.

Think about a company that produces screws, they don't have a program for every possible screw they make. Same goes for a more complicated item like a metal box with a door on it.

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