Orka In the News | 7.1.2021
ORKA IN THE NEWS Check out Orka Automation leaders Michael Ramirez and John Amrhein’s input into part 1 of a series on Industry 4.0 at MiBiz: Reducing the Human Struggle […]
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Orka In the News | 7.9.2021
ORKA IN THE NEWS Check out Orka Automation leaders Michael Ramirez and John Amrhein’s input into part 2 of a series on Industry 4.0 at MiBiz: West Michigan manufacturers see opportunity in automation, Industry 4.0 as labor shortage persists. […]
Automation Headlines | 7.6.2021
Welcome to a new series featuring articles, resources, and events we’re reading or visiting to inspire, inform, and ignite new ideas around using automation to create high performance manufacturing environments. Articles Should Talent Be an Extension of Technology, or Vice Versa? Industry Week West Michigan manufacturers see opportunity in automation, Industry 4.0 as labor shortage […]
How to get the Bean Counters to Approve Your Capital Request
As a former Finance leader for several large manufacturing companies, I’ve seen my fair share of capital requests – both well prepared, and not so well prepared. Many lacked any quantifiable means to determine project success, and cost savings were often overpromised and/or difficult to measure. Capital Authorization Request (CAR) forms were completed with only […]
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Automating 2021
Happy New Year, and congratulations on surviving 2020. This past year has been difficult for everyone – especially small businesses looking to compete in a global economy, adjust to evolving workplace requirements and restrictions due to COVID-19 while keeping their employees and their business healthy. Thinking of adding automation and digital manufacturing elements to your […]
Automation Is No Longer Optional — It’s Inevitable
This year has been unusual, to say the least. From lock-downs to masks, toilet paper shortages to daily temperature checks, a lot has been asked of us as individuals, business owners, and workers. Automation has been a growing fixture in manufacturing environments for years, increasing production efficiency and supporting safe environments for workers. Virtually every […]
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Moving, Slicing, Sorting and Simplifying
Challenge A global manufacturer of custom-engineered foam-based components, products and packaging was looking to automate a fully manual process for slipping foam “buns” into standard dimensions for production. Within the original process, workers had to push and lift large blocks of foam “buns” weighing hundreds of pounds to get them separated after sawing. Not only […]
Labor Day is About More than Parades and Potato Salad
Most of us are aware that Labor Day celebrates workers and their achievements. To many of us, it also symbolizes the unofficial end of summer, and the start of the school year. This Labor Day, I dug a bit deeper to get past the parades and potato salad to the origin of Labor Day. The Origin […]
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“Local-to-Local” is a trend we can get our energy around!
We just shared a blog post from Prince Manufacturing to our LinkedIn page – and it’s got us thinking about how we can support a more focused “local to local” effort in West Michigan and the Midwest. Manufacturing is moving from China to the United States Ensuring that our customers deliver quality outputs has been […]
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COVID-19 Updates
As you are all aware, COVID-19 is quickly spreading throughout North America. Obviously this is nothing that we’ve ever had to deal with before – and the health and safety of our employees, customers, business partners and community is of the upmost importance to us. With that, we wanted to make our customers aware […]
