Home Mark Sobkow Vice President , Manufacturing Systems, RedViking Robotics Integrating Robots Into Your Manufacturing Environment Robots in the manufacturing environment is becoming much more prevalent, but it hasn’t gotten any easier to implement. These four questions will help your organization figure out if they’re ready for implementation. Home 5 Principles of Flexible Assembly Line Design By following these principles of flexible assembly line design, manufacturers can pursue lean manufacturing in their current operation while also building capabilities to maintain or add lean improvements in the future. Data Are You Spending too Much on Automation? To find out if you should automate or stick with a manual process, answer these five questions. Home The Flexible Factory, Part 1: Merging Machines The factory—any manufacturing factory—must become more flexible and sustainable. And all roads must lead to improved capacity utilization.