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With all the new technology designed to improve your shop floor, how do you know where to start? 

De-risk your new tech decision by working with someone who’s done the homework and managed the implementation for company after company.

 

With all the new technology designed to improve your shop floor, how do you know where to start?
 
De-risk your new tech decision by working with someone who’s done the homework and managed the implementation for company after company.
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For a manufacturing company with $10 million in sales, labor and overhead costs can be up to $5 million annually. Implementing low-risk automation is your first step to reducing that number. These three technology offerings are simple to implement and deliver quick ROI.

If you're struggling with:

  • Maintaining a cross-trained workforce for production and assembly line tasks
  • Constant turnover and high training costs for routine jobs of manual assembly and machine tending
  • Low productivity and failure to make rate
  • Inconsistent quality due to manual methods
  • Costly part or component mix-ups on the shop floor

then-you-need-2

 

Automated Cells for Assembly and Machine Tending

Manual assembly, machine tending, and packaging positions are critical roles but a challenge to fill due to the skilled worker shortage. Investing in automation and cobots for these functions can reduce labor needs by up to 75%, freeing your loyal employees to cross-train and develop new skills while decreasing your need to hire for growth. With automated cell solutions, operators can run multiple machines, and production can even be completed on off-shifts without operators.

Investment: $125,000–$250,000
Timeframe: 3–6 months
ROI: 8–12 months
Bottom line: Improve capacity, reduce costs, and decrease your hiring needs in a tough labor market.

If you're struggling with:

  • High cost of inspector technician labor
  • Frustrated customers from quality escapes
  • Inspection bottlenecks
  • Insufficient measurement accuracy or sampling plans
  • Inadequate first article inspections

then-you-need-1

 

Quality Vision Systems

In today’s manufacturing world, quality isn’t a competitive edge; it’s a necessity. Manual quality inspection comes with high labor costs, slow inspection, and operator error. By switching to quality vision systems with AI integrations, you can ensure accurate and complete part inspection, zero quality escapes, and 100% customer satisfaction. 

Investment: $50,000–$75,000
Timeframe: 3–6 months
ROI: 8–12 months
Bottom line: Improve capacity, reduce costs, and decrease your hiring needs in a tough labor market.

If you're struggling with:

  •  High machine downtime and disrupted schedules
  • Late deliveries
  • Overwhelmed supervisors doing non-value-add work
  • Uncertainty on where to focus process improvement efforts
  • Unexpected expenses

then-you-need-1

 

Machine Monitoring Systems

Managing machine uptime manually is time-consuming and challenging. Supervisors collect data, arrange for maintenance, and identify downtime causes rather than helping employees increase output. Machine monitoring systems give you real-time data on production rates, part quality, and downtime reasons so supervisors can solve problems quickly and increase uptime.

Investment: $20,000–$40,000 for approx. 10–20 machines
Timeframe: 6 weeks
ROI: 2–3 months
Bottom line: Give your supervisors the data they need to increase capacity and reduce costs.

Which of these low-risk offerings will be your entry point to a more productive and profitable shop floor?

It’s time to reduce costs and improve your productivity and quality through automation. Give MAGNET a call today. 

 

MAGNET’s Technology & Engineering Practice

With MAGNET’s Technology and Engineering team working as an extension of yours, you can get to your ideal future state with your machines, processes, and products. Whatever the challenge, whatever the goal, we’ll guide you through the options, identify the right next step, and help you get it done.

Joe Vinciquerra
Joe Vinciquerra
Technology & Engineering

 

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