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Labor Reducing Work Cells and Systems

The information that follows has been taken from articles I have published and seminars I have presented. Please contact me to schedule a consulting session for your company.

Please click on the following links to see the topics
401 Definition of Work cells and Systems
402 Examples of Work cells
403 Examples of Systems
404 Why Choose A Tube Fabricating Work Cell?
405 Design Considerations

Work cells and systems represent the high ground for remaining competitive in todays' tough manufacturing market. Increasing fuel costs and material costs are making it very attractive to invest in labor reducing technologies that will make the prices you can then offer for your products stand out from the rest of the crowd.

Rising fuel costs will have one benefitial effect on the US and Canadian economies - it will become more and more expensive to ship air (most of what a tube assembly is composed of) from overseas. This will put local tube fabricators on a more even playing field than what they have recently been experiencing.

The basic idea behind a work cell or system is to reduce labor content by concentrating several operations and part handlings into one automated area requiring one operator. It is easy to see how this can work by following the links above.