Video: Automation Adds Jobs at Vickers Engineering
Rather than being a replacement for employees, this machined parts supplier says robotic automation has led to a doubling of the size of its staff.
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View MoreVickers Engineering President and CEO Matt Tyler says that automation has not replaced people in his shop, but instead has expanded the workforce. Without robotic automation, he says, this New Troy, Michigan, supplier of precision machined parts would have maybe 80 to 90 employees today, instead of the much larger number it currently employes. Because of the way robots have made the shop more competitive and increased the value of each of employee, the shop now employs around 200. Learn more about Vickers’s experience with robots in this video produced by FANUC America.
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