When we look at a process and how we're going to price our product, we're not necessarily going to look at labor costs," says Mike Higgins, sales and marketing director at RCM Industries (Franklin Park, IL). "We're going to look at labor cost against whether the process can be automated. We're always asking, 'What is that investment, and does it make sense?'" More often than not, the answer is yes.
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