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production status/reports. all employee productivity.
Implementing automation Accurate staffing, along
will help keep employees with the support of tempo-
safe as there will be no rary workers, ensures that
need for them to enter au- workflow and production
tomated lines, except for levels remain consistent
maintenance work. when some employees are
absent for extended peri-
LABOUR
directly to storage without ods of time.
any human intervention. MANAGEMENT Automated equipment ena-
Connecting the equipment Effectively managing la- bles to manufacture quality
to business systems will bour, such as employee glass in the most efficient
greatly reduce the effort leaves and absences, has a way possible. Automa-
range of performance ben- which is required to create significant impact on over- tions enable companies to
efits for glass companies.
These benefits are varied,
depending on individu-
al cases, and potentially
very substantial – in some
cases, considerably larger
than cost reductions asso-
ciated with labour replace-
ment. They include, but
are not limited to, greater
throughput, higher quality,
improved safety, reduced
variability, a reduction of
waste, and higher custom-
er satisfaction
AUTOMATION ALSO
MEANS CAPABILITY
OF GLASS HANDLING
AMONG PROCESSES
The integration between
Forvet edging equipment
Chiara and CNC drilling
centres Francesca is well
known: Forvet today is also
providing all previous and
subsequent integrations.
Forvet automated and in-
tegrated machines are de-
signed to perform a num-
ber of operations at the
same time, which means
there is no need to move
the glass after each stage of
production, as the finished
products can be delivered

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