Automation has been a key pillar to our continues efforts of streamlining our production floor. Our main goal in automation is not a race to find every possibility to replace employees with machines, but rather strike a balance by elevating the skills of our employees and relieving them from daily, repetitive, and mundane tasks.

We achieve this by identifying and evaluating the feasibility of certain processes to be enhanced through automation, if positive we then would provide the necessary education to our employees on managing and maintaining the new processes.

COVID-19 as with almost every industry has definitely disrupted our operations to a certain degree due to the impact on the supply chain as well as the physical restrictions on the movement of people imposed by the governments worldwide. These events have highlighted to us the importance of automation and accelerated our efforts in the development of new processes in areas that we were hesitant on.

Inadvertently the relief funds that were being handed out during the lockdown have lead to many people thinking twice before going work. Since the governments were providing funds near or at sometimes higher payouts than the monthly wages of some people. Resulting in a dilemma in many companies across the nation as well as the European continent, whereby employees would rather get paid staying at home than to go to work. This has created a gap in the pool of skilled workers that are essential for companies to function. Requiring companies to look else where for talent or offer much higher wages just for potential candidates to consider applying.

We see that automation will continue being the trend in our industry through repurposing many different tasks that would have been previously done manually. Also it is just as important to continually invest in people as it is to invest in machine and bringing them together in a balanced approach without comprising on the other