In a recent Crain's Chicago Business article, GAM president Craig Van den Avont shares how automation has fueled GAM's growth.
Today's manufacturers are at a crossroads. They can continue with manual work and processes, despite the industry’s chronic labor shortage. Or they can adopt automation and continuous improvement processes to boost efficiency and productivity.
A decade ago, GAM Enterprises, Inc. opted for automation, and the company has since reaped the rewards, says Craig Van den Avont, GAM’s president.
Adding automation helps GAM cut costs, and improve efficiency, while creating new, higher-skilled jobs on our shop floor. Using robots to load/unload parts frees our operators to spend more time on the higher skilled machine setup work.
"The bottom line is that automation creates jobs; it doesn't destroy jobs," Van den Avont says.
Read the full article on Crain's: How Illinois manufacturers turn automation into a jobs engine
Mike, one of our CNC setup operators, works side-by-side with a cobot, handling the high-level machine setup and teaching the cobot to load and unload precision parts.