An increasingly competitive landscape and evolving consumers’ demands have changed manufacturing, which has become more focused on automating production lines, increasingly using standardised automation cells, and on producing solutions for high-mix-low-volume manufacturing.
These manufacturing models require extremely versatile equipment that can be adapted to the frequently changing needs of the production line. At the same time, components have to fit into standardised automation cells like building blocks, each contributing to automating one step of the production process.
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