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Impact of Industrial Automation

The past two decades have seen drastic changes in the manufacturing landscape. The advent of smart computers and technology have rendered automation an essential element in gaining a competitive advantage in today’s local and global manufacturing environment.

Top Advantages of Industrial Automation

Automation’s key advantage is increasing productivity in facilities. Labor reduction, repeatability, waste reduction, enhanced quality control, and integration with existing business systems give companies an advantage by reducing long-term costs, which increases product output and revenue. Disadvantages include high initial costs in purchasing technology and increases in maintenance costs. For decades, automation has been used in industry to produce simple objects. However, the combination of computers and existing technology in the mid-20th century allowed more complex tasks to be completed in much faster times.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.