UNIRO

For innovative manufacturing companies, automation is more than ever an essential aspect of their value chain. For many years now, and with obvious intensification over the last few years, several internal and external factors such as international competition and a real shortage of local labor force are stimulating integration of automation and acquisition of production data. Actions taken in a sense have many goals that are often 1) to free valuable human resources from low-cognitive workstations in order to re-locate them to higher-value jobs. accelerated production rates, reduced manufacturing costs and reduced costs related to non-quality 3) opened up new manufacturing possibilities through the development of new processes or the optimization of existing processes. However automation is an extremely scalable universe and it is easy to get lost in the choices offered and throw money out the windows without finding the promised ROI. Worse still, there is a real danger of taking ...