The last frontier of automation: Modernizing material flow
Ergo experts can stay active even after work life has ended
By Joshua Joseph
Walk into most U.S. factories today and
you’ll see a quiet contradiction. Robots
weld, sensors track torque, dashboards
glow with data – yet the parts feeding
those machines still move the way they did
decades ago. Forklifts hum across aisles. Tugger trains loop
on fixed schedules, full or empty. The flow looks busy, but
not intelligent.
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