Ongoing labor shortages are forcing manufacturers to rethink how they operate and accelerating the need for end-to-end automation. When it comes to material movement, that often means deploying Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to take on tasks once handled by people.
Unfortunately, many of these deployments will fail to achieve the long-term ROI leaders expect.
This article looks at how overlooking human decision-making breaks down automation.
