As a technological revolution, industrial automation brings many benefits, such as improved productivity, lower costs, higher product quality and higher workplace safety standards. 

Improved production: Industrial automation can improve production by immediately adjusting production parameters to meet changing needs. With traditional production methods, it’s employees who have to carry out repetitive manual tasks. Automated equipment enables companies to produce consistently, very quickly and extremely efficiently in order to meet demand, without needing to hire more staff.  
 
Lower costs: Despite higher initial costs, equipment automation saves companies significant sums in the longer term. Fewer workers are needed to produce a greater quantity of products. Automated equipment also enables employees to concentrate on tasks that cannot be carried out automatically. Finally, several accurately configured pieces of equipment help to cut raw material costs by reducing production waste. 

Ensuring maximum quality: The recognized quality of a company’s products and services is what makes it successful. Industrial automation helps companies to guarantee higher quality for their customers by ensuring consistency in production and significantly reducing the number of errors, irregularities and production defects. In fact, automated equipment is much more precise when it comes to checking critical temperature thresholds or visually inspecting a product, for example. 
 
Preventive maintenance: It’s not always ideal to have to stop production of certain products when equipment breaks down or requires maintenance. The automation integrated into a chain of equipment provides important details concerning its operation and the maintenance that will be required further down the line. This can help your business avoid unexpected breakdowns and costly breakages.  

Enhanced safety: The work environment is safer thanks to the automation of riskier tasks. In fact, the risk of workplace accidents, and the associated costs, are greatly reduced with the addition of automatic safety features on equipment.  

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