Andy Zosel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Automation, Zebra Technologies. Read Andy Zosel's full executive profile here.
It’s no secret that labor has been challenging manufacturers for the past several years. The world, workers and expectations have changed. While the manufacturing industry has rebounded from aboutOn top of that, the skills gap is only growing.
Think of it as the choreographer behind an intricate dance, directing every move with perfect balance from raw materials through production to finished goods, all while collaborating with workers throughout. If one step is out of sync—undetected defects, waste or errors—the entire dance stumbles. In manufacturing, this might mean replacing roles like loading and unloading machines or pallets or walking miles searching for an item with work requiring more critical thinking and decision-making skills. Roles considered higher value in manufacturing often leverage and collaborate with technology, robots or both.
Take inspection, for example. When inspection is digitized, it enables manufacturers to use track and trace technology. This supports corrective and preventive action that can be taken to attain and sustain key quality parameters. With the power of AI behind it, machine vision can surpass human capability for fast, near-perfect accurate inspections at any level of complexity.
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