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Elevate Your Smart Manufacturing Strategy with Human-Centric Investments

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With rising material & labor costs, lots of equipment beyond end-of-life, and challenges with recruiting & retaining workers, manufacturing leaders are challenged on multiple fronts today. Many turn to traditional automation as the answer but the inflexibility and high upfront investment makes many applications impossible to justify. With smart automation technologies, the worker is put at the center of the production process, eliminating boring, injury prone tasks with technology. Putting people at the center of the technology decision creates a powerful symbiotic relationship by focusing the worker on creative & problem solving tasks while having the technology do the work people hate. This shows future employees that you make investments in your people & creates better worker engagement which ultimately helps you retain your workforce at a higher rate and raises profitability across the organization.

In a fun and fast format, we’ll wrap with how to make a successful automation decision and provide a clear action plan for your automation journey that can be followed regardless of your starting point.
  • Will Healy
    Global Industry Segment Manager, Welding
    Teradyne / Universal Robots
  • Kevin Davidson
    Sr. Director of Operations
    Methods Machine