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motion and had to be put in place using manual labor (thereby creating a highly repetitive
task). The surprising outcome of the redesign was that manual assembly of the
mechanism became so simple, that the use of automation and robots could no longer be
cost-justified. This product was therefore assembled manually.
FIGURE 17.1
(A) The original design of the paper
picking mechanism had 27 parts. (B) The
redesigned mechanism had 14 parts.
