Saturday 26 May 2018

Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots by Ron Harbour and Jim Schmidt via @HarvardBiz

When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work.

Yes robotics is not the solution for everything in manufacturing. You need to have processes, IoT, AI, ML the works in order to improve the whole area of the quality and efficiency of your factory.

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