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Automation Straight Talk: How to Avoid Slumping in a Slump

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Automation Straight Talk: How to Avoid Slumping in a Slump

  • Use down time to reconfigure your plant to make the production process more efficient. 
  • Look hard at how you can have most of the benefits of full automation without spending the money to get it. 
  • A down cycle is a good time—really the best time—to install new equipment. 
  • It’s possible for plants to come out of a down cycle literally twice the company that they were before.
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2006 November
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