By Matt Rendall, CEO and co-founder of Otto Motors, and host of the forthcoming Drive Manufacturing Summit
Manufacturers in North American know robotics and automation; they have studied and put into practice the Ford Production System and the Toyota Production System to continuously improve operations, with much of those improvements made by the use and integration of automation.
As such, the sector has traditionally been one of the first industries to grab hold of burgeoning robotics technologies and incorporate them into process.
This said, something has changed in the last 10 years – while manufacturers have focused on continuous improvement within their space, the technology sector has also been making leaps and bounds in innovation, with new capabilities spanning cloud computing, big data, and mobile computing. [Read more…] about Opinion: North America and its chief robotics officers will drive ‘Industry 5.0’