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ROBOTAS
- Over a decade of achievement
in precision manufacturing
equipment Robotas goes
into the Millennium celebrating
its thirteenth year as
a dynamic, UK supplier
of computer enhanced manufacturing
equipment.
The company has established
an international market
for its products - and
enjoys a reputation for
excellent concepts, superb
quality and reliable customer
support. Robotas was formed
in 1987 when its founder
and current Chairman,
Dave Walters, identified
a need within the electronics
manufacturing industry
for machine assisted manual
placement insertion of
through-hole and odd form
components.
The first MASCOT workstation,
the model 160, used relatively
frugal computing resources
to store build instructions
for a PCB assembly. The
workstation would then
prompt the operator to
insert components in sequence,
as defined by the storage
program. MASCOT 160 was
well received by the market.
Robotas achieved several
multiple orders and noted
strong interest from the
defence industry, which
has particularly well
known requirements for
low-volume, high quality
through-hole assembly.
MASCOT was first introduced
to the rest of the world
with its first export
order for MASCOT in 1989,
supplying machines to
Tesla in the Czech Republic
and Bekotenknik in Turkey.
With the introduction
in 1990 of the MASCOT
PC, based on the ubiquitous
PC platform, Robotas experienced
strong and steady sales
growth. The versatility
of the PC platform along
with modular design provided
the starting point for
today's sophisticated
MASCOT range, with the
first networkable workstations,
and the MASCOT standalone
carousel, being introduced
in 1991. |
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