The need for automation and robotics in cutting and deboning is becoming more necessary with labor challenges, but it is not as prevalent yet as the old adage “yields pay for labor.” This saying is changing with higher costs of labor, such as worker’s compensation, insurance, medical, etc., says John Johnson, managing director of Epsilon Industries, in Morris, Ill.
“Automated systems will not take vacations, call in sick or vacillate in performance,” he says. “Speed, efficiencies and food and worker safety are also advantages to automation.”