Manufacturers everywhere are feeling the same squeeze: a shrinking skilled talent pool, customers demanding higher quality and faster deliveries and competitors leveraging automation to cut costs and lead times. The instinct is often to buy another machine, but for most shops, the real bottleneck isn't capacity. It's everything happening around the spindle.
Join All World's Jim McCullough for a 60-minute session on where automation actually pays off in your workholding process—and where it doesn't. You'll learn how to tell if you're constrained by capacity or inefficiency, which processes deliver ROI in weeks versus which require a larger investment and what kind of payback to realistically expect. We'll also walk through a real automation project, from first concept to full-scale production across multiple part families.
Whether you're evaluating your first automation investment or scaling an existing program, you'll leave with a clear framework for what you can automate, when to do it and the results you can realistically expect.
Agenda
- Introduction
- About All World/Presenter
- Current Pressures in Manufacturing
- What to do Before You Automate (Automating Too Early / Too Late)
- Understanding Your Production Constraints
- Common Signals That You're Ready (To Automate)
- What Processes Can Be Automated
- Tracking Automation Savings
- Case Study
- 5 Steps to Automate Your Workflow Today
- Q&A
