Include Robotics in Your Company Plans
This article reviews some “hows” and “whys” for considering robots, and includes a discussion about traditional versus collaborative robots.
There is an inevitability of robots in manufacturing. Such transformations have happened in the industry before and will happen again in the future.
Accepting this inevitability is important for companies looking toward the future. And it’s not about resource replacement, but rather about re-allocation of resources.
Good employees are hard to find, so plans should include how best to keep and productively occupy the workers the shop has invested in. Including robots in those plans is a way to accomplish the mission.
This article, “Developing a Company Plan for Robotics,” reviews some “hows” and “whys” for considering robots and includes a discussion about traditional, versus collaborative robots.
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