Offset Technology: Never Say Die

“Integrated automation and automation are not the same thing. You can’t have the former unless you already have the latter. Once you have automation, the economic advantages of integrated automation become less clear. Since anything added to a fully automated press is incremental, I have to ask whether it really pays to add it. If I were building a green field plant, I would make it as automated at possible. But if I’m working with the plant I already have, with a range of equipment of varying ages, that makes a significant difference in my planning.” —Lamparter