By Jeff Chu, Director, Factory of the Future Services and Charlie Shortridge, Sales Engineering Manager
Lessons learned and best practices from hundreds of engagements with our manufacturing customersThe prevalence of the word “automation” in Fortune 500 earnings calls has increased six-fold in the last 10 years. Businesses in all industries are being challenged to do more with less, and they’ve generally been successful: earnings and revenue per employee among the Fortune 500 have increased every year for the last 10 years.
That said, the imperative to automate often gets stuck when hopscotching through an organization from CEO directive down to the factory floor. From “pilot purgatory” of McKinsey fame to glacial enterprise deployments, Invio Automation has…