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Re-shoring using flexible automation

10 May, 2013

The robot-maker Adept Technology has issued a White Paper describing how flexible automation can help to bring manufacturing back to countries that have traditionally had high labour costs. It quotes the example of Philips Electronics which has “re-shored” production of shavers to a site in the Netherlands.




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