"Most current textbooks were written some years ago and, as with many other areas of technology and manufacturing, CAD/CAM processes and solutions have developed rapidly in this period. This book addresses the need to a) provide up-to-date coverage of current CAD/CAM usage and implementation and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the importance of redesigning, reusing, remanufacturing, recovering, recycling and reducing (6R) to sustainable manufacturing and discuss the general procedure to reconfigure robots. Two critical challenges in adopting industrial robots in small...