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.
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Agenda
Introduction
About All World/Presenter
Current Pressures in Manufacturing
What to do Before You Automate (Automating Too Early / Too Late)
Jim McCullough is a Sales Engineer with over 30 years in the machine tool industry, including over 25 years focused specifically on custom workholding applications. A lifelong Midwesterner, he's spent his career helping manufacturers solve their...
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