CONVEYOR BELT

Continual advances in product quality and functioning on the one hand and diversifying values on the other are subdividing consumption into more intricate segments. This trend is fueling a shift in the most basic concepts of factory automation; manufacturers are rapidly trending away from investments in automated machinery that pursues overall production efficiency via increases in speed and labor-saving of general-purpose parts processing, to “segmented automation” that enables flexible production at high levels of precision and efficiency via automated processing that deftly delivers the specification requirements of individual parts.