Robots Help 'Old' Machine Shop Compete Globally

摘要

From the road, Standby Screw appears to be just another factory in just another suburban industrial park. But step inside-learn about the global operations, delve into the sheer production numbers, watch all the robots at work-and you will see there is little ordinary about this screw factory as it nears the start of its ninth decade. "We come from the old screw machine shop mentality," says COO William Marcell Ⅱ, who asks that you call him Bill and whose grandfather started the company in 1939. "And now we have a plant in Guangzhou, China." Yes, they operate two facilities, one just outside Cleveland, one clear on the other side of the world, which is a little out of the ordinary.