Nigel Platt believes developments in vision guided robotic technology could helprnmanufacturers radically improve their profitability through enhancedrncompetitiveness and productivity. He offers an insight into the technology andrnhow it is best implementedrnIn the BERR Manufacturing Review 2008, 65% of the businesses surveyed identified investment in innovation as a way of helping to protect themselves against competition from low wage economies. UK manufacturers have long struggled to compete against overseas producers capable of utilising cheap labour to manufacture low cost goods. With recent developments in vision guided robotic (VGR) technology, however, which increasingly places robots on a par with their human counterparts, this may be about to change.
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