In addition to deploying tools for automation, companies also must educate their workforce and reskill them to work with them. By implementing new technologies, workers can rise into higher-level, more tech-focused roles. These new technologies matched with a newly skilled workforce will reinvigorate manufacturing processes. We speak to Gustavo Sepulveda, the Process Automation Business Head at Panasonic, about their work with companies to enhance manufacturing operations.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.
