Manufacturers facing pressure to cut costs should fix how people work before buying new machines. Refine shop-floor operations and work practices first, then upgrade technology. This people-first approach delivers better results and real savings.
There were several things that we saw coming down the pipe that everything shared a trend with, and that was ultimately becoming more efficient. And so, as customers were flowing down requirements to us on, okay, where can you better your processes so that you can flow down cost savings to us? Yeah. Okay, so now we have to identify on the shop floor, what can we be doing differently? And a lot of times it was, It was about people, not, not so much the machine. And then as you hone in on the people, then you start saying, okay, now how can we make this machine or this technology better to make, to make that individual even more efficient? So it's kind of those steps that we're taking a look at.
