Yunus Emre Aydoğdu

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Agile Manufacturing

Agile Manufacturing is a term indicating the implementation of the principles of lean production on a broad scale. The principle behind agile manufacturing is ensuring agility (hence flexibility) in the manufacturing enterprise, so that it can respond rapidly to changes in product demand and customers needs.

(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R.,Manufacturing engineering and technology, p. 37-38)

Tactile Sensing

Tactile sensing is the continous sensing of variable contact forces, commonly by an array of sensors. Such a system is capable of performing within an arbitrary three-dimensional space. Fragile parts (such as glass bottles and electronic devices) can be handled by robots with compliant (smart) end effectors. These effectors can sense the force applied to the object being handled using piezoelectric devices, strain gages, magnetic induction, ultrasonics and optical systems of fiber optics and light-emitting diodes.

(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R.,Manufacturing engineering and technology, p. 1173)

Visual Sensing (machine vision, computer vision)

In visual sensing, cameras optically sense the presence and shape of the object. A microprocessor then processes the image (usually in less than one second), the image is measured, and the measurements are digitized (image recognition). Three are two basic systems of machine vision: lineer array and matrix array

(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R.,Manufacturing engineering and technology, p. 1173)

Intelligent (sensory) Robot.

The intelligent robots is capable of performing some of the funtions and tasks carried out by humans. It is equipped with a variety of sensors with visual (computer vision) and tactile capabilities.

(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R.,Manufacturing engineering and technology, p. 1169)