In CNC manufacturing, time is everything. The goal is to achieve faster production without losing quality, because that leads to more profit, shorter delivery times and a stronger competitive position.
You will therefore encounter two groups of people in a production hall: those who constantly look at their watches, and those who don't wear one.
Group one wants to constantly keep an eye on when their CNC machine's machining cycle is over in order to immediately get to work on the next one. Group two wants that too, but their robot is already doing that work. And within this second group, there is another subgroup: those who don't even own a watch.
That subgroup are the Innovators.
For them, cnc automation has always been the standard. Because the Innovators have long tested what the pioneers ("Early adopters") don't even know yet. So on their horizon you will not find machine automation, but you will find the automation of a real machine hall ('lights-out manufacturing').
They have also been experimenting for a while with robots using AI and vision technology, predictive algorithms, digital twins and CNC machines with more axes than we have seen so far. So they can't wait for the next wave of automation.
These are - in all honesty - the company visits where even we still find things that amaze us. These companies have a trained eye for innovation and they can decide in a millisecond whether something will move them forward or not, regardless of the risk.
They are not waiting for the future, they are part of it.
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