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How Can Automation Solve Your Labor Challenges?

With new jobs growth and baby boomers retiring, the situation will not improve any time soon.

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By MMH Staff ·

If you’re struggling to fill open positions in your company, you’re not alone. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers reports 89% of manufacturers are having difficulty finding skilled workers. And with new jobs growth and baby boomers retiring, the situation will not improve any time soon. In fact, a recent skills gap study projects more than half of the 4.6 million manufacturing jobs created over the next decade will go unfilled.

So what’s a packager or materials handler to do?

Automate your repetitive tasks with collaborative robots from Universal Robots.

Cobots:

  • Can be implemented for less than half the cost of traditional robots
  • Offer typical ROI of less than one year
  • Are easy to program and redeploy
  • Download this whitepaper and learn the full scope of the labor crisis and all the benefits that collaborative robots can offer.
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