FORMING AND FABRICATING AUTOMATION
Developing the Automation-Savvy Workforce of the Future
C ollaborative automation is changing the automation paradigm with a human- centric approach. Automated material handling and cobots that enhance worker safety, ease discomfort and improve pressroom productivity may be the key to attracting the next-gen workforce. Collaborative Pressroom Automation
A s robots and cobots furiously promised land of elevated productivity. Alas, that requires a coinciding investment in workers equipped with complementary knowledge and skills in robot programming, operations and maintenance. make their way into metal forming facilities, bear in mind that equipment investments alone will not deliver the
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Robot vendors, faced with knowing that their customers struggle to hire and retain trained robot operators, programmers and maintenance technicians, continue to develop new tools to overcome workforce-related challenges.
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Automation and Workplace Culture: Why It Doesn’t Have to be a Trade-Off What if automation didn’t replace people, but instead made them better at their jobs? Without
for survival, the challenge for metal fabricators is to ensure these investments do not come at the expense of human interaction and collaboration.
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a good strategy in place, the introduction of automation can lead employees to feel undervalued and disconnected from the company they work for, because there are fewer opportunities for natural conversations around everyday tasks. This is why automation sometimes is seen as a trade-off: efficiency gained, culture lost. With automation necessary
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