The virtual and wearable technologies Comau was showing at Automate were designed to increase productivity and quality within the evolving smart factory. Machines can be there for the heavy lifting and the repetitive tasks, he added, but the people will always need to intervene. “We don’t believe in plants without people,” said Pietro Ottavis, chief operating officer of Comau’s robotics and automation products business unit. They call it Humanufacturing, where people play the leading role.
There are several different arguments for automation, but a key one centers around the inability of a manufacturer to provide any jobs if it can’t stay in business.Īt its booth during the recent Automate show in Chicago, Comau had a somewhat different perspective, emphasizing how central humans are to the technologies it’s been rolling out-and how much those technologies are there specifically to help the human workers on the plant floor. Just about every industry show or conference these days has some level of debate about whether robots and other forms of automation are taking people’s jobs. This article originally appeared on May 3, 2019.
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