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Editor : Rajeev lyer
Editorial Head : P.K. Balasubbramaniian
CMO: Shirish Dongre
Marketing Team : From the
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Manufacturing Automation :
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Arun P. Shinde, Nandan S. Moghe, Adopting newer technologies for
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enhanced production
Circulation Executive : This “lights out” production concept—where manufacturing activities and material
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flows are handled entirely automatically—is becoming an increasingly common
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Advocate Vijay S. Jadhav driven by the same things that first brought robotics and automation into the
workplace: to free human workers from dirty, dull, or dangerous jobs; to improve
quality by eliminating errors and reducing variability; and to cut manufacturing costs
by replacing increasingly expensive people with ever-cheaper machines. Today’s
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take a holistic and systematic approach, aligning their automation strategy closely
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