Celebrating Automation
The benefits of automation are far too numerous to recall and repeat in a few paragraphs, and more importantly, too well known to the industry.Dr M ArokiaswamyTo put it simply, automation helps manufacturers keep costs low while improving quality, and ramp up capacity rapidly to meet demand. The automobile industry is an early example – in fact it is the automobile industry that promoted automation right from the early days when Henry Ford installed the first assembly line in 1913. The system improved productivity tremendously taking the work to the worker, building the automobile step by step as it moved forward the line, a vast improvement over workers moving indi...
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