The metal processing industry limited by a shrinking labor force!

Productivity

Almost any welded structures, requires post processing to be removed or blended. This could be up to two thirds of the production time and could be affected by absenteeism, operator injuries and operator wearing.
  
This currently represents a bottle neck towards a more efficient and more sustainable productions.

Production cost

Manufacturing metal structures requires huge number of man-hours, to remove welds, burrs and obtain a high-quality product.
  
Especially in sectors as medical, pharmaceutical and food, where the surface quality is critical to ensures hygiene regulations, the manual post processing could cost up to half of the production costs.

Skilled Labor

Metal processing quality strongly depends on the manual skills of the person doing it. Less and less people want to do this hard and dangerous job and manufacturers struggle in finding labor.
  
This is well-in-line with the Megatrend of Sustainability, that not only means taking care of the environmental impact, but it is also to ensure a good life quality of everyone.