CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Why Automation Pays Off
AUTOMATION, WHEREVER INSTALLED IN A MANUFACTURING plant, has paid for itself within three years, and often much faster. And it has given the plant the ability to compete even against low-cost foreign producers. Yet in every seminar I have been running these past few years, a plant manager gets up and says, “I can't convince my top management that automation pays.” And all the other manufacturing people in the group shout, “Amen!”
The payoff from automation is indeed both fast and high. But very little, if any, of it shows up in the measurements that most U.S. manufacturing plants, especially smaller ...
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