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ability to manufacture application of robotic assembled by robot ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION Joseph assembly machines assembly robots assembly tasks automated assembly automation bottleneck AUTOMATION Joseph Tidd automation of final automobile industry Body Shop changeovers COMPLEXITY OF ASSEMBLY component manufacturers counterparts customer options designed for automated dominant approach electric motors electrical automotive components electrical industry example feeders final assembly first-generation robotic fixtures flexible manufacturing gripper hydraulic robots IMVP studies includes electrical automotive industrial robots Japan UK Japanese jointed-arm robot machine vision main technological developments major manufacturing flexibility Number of Product off-line Percentage of Robotic positional accuracy product design Product Life Cycle Product Variants Assembled production volumes programming language robotic assembly system Robotic System versus robotics technology SCARA second-generation robotic set of product Sophistication of Robotic special-purpose automation task complexity TECHNICAL SOPHISTICATION technological developments responsible trend types of flexibility typically UK & Japan UK and Japan users in Japan