Whether its manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, food processing, or beyond, automation technology has become a nearly ubiquitous presence in everyday life. The ability for systems leveraging robots, machine vision, motion control, and other complementary technologies to help companies enhance productivity and stay competitive, drive revenue, and attract and retain top talent has become invaluable.
An automation system is greater than the sum of its parts, however. In most automation systems, complementary technologies converge to accomplish a wide range of different tasks. For example, robots alone can automate many pre-programmed and repeatable tasks across different industries, but pairing a robot with machine vision technologies opens the door to significantly more applications. Ultimately, automation systems progressing and continuing to enhance operational efficiencies worldwide requires the advancement of system subcomponents in tandem.