Embrace Automation to Crush Your Productivity Problems

The challenge of producing more with fewer people is real, and on top of that, you're likely dealing with other obstacles such as:

• Product quality issues that may lead to costly recalls 
• Too much scrap or raw material waste 
• Difficulties meeting industry-specific regulations 
• Constantly changing or fluctuating consumer demands that impact packaging requirements  

It’s time to welcome a new class of employee—the steel collar worker. By embracing automation and bringing robotic forces to the floor, you’ll not only permanently fill those always open positions, you’ll be able to take down the inefficiencies standing in the way of reaching peak production. 

See Where Automation Makes Sense  

It’s easy to get overwhelmed thinking about all the possible places in your plant that are ripe for automation. But instead of trying to automate everything all at once, Gray AES takes a step back and assembles an optimal automation plan for your plant. To do this, we first need to see and hear about your current pain points and understand your future production goals. When we come onsite for our automation assessment, don’t hold back. Let us figure out the right combination of technologies to help you better utilize your valuable workforce by taking the mundane, boring, and repetitive jobs out of their hands.  

See Automation in Action  

We get it, automation doesn’t come cheap, so you need to be absolutely sure your solution will work before dollars head out the door. We deploy our 3D modeling skills to deliver dynamic front-end designs that bring your project to life. Or better yet, join us at our massive Collaboration Center for a demo of your solution in action. Not much excites our robotics experts more than showing off what’s possible when you make the leap to embrace automation!  ‍

See Your Productivity Pain Points Out the Door

Robotic solutions have range. From next-level vision-based inspection systems to mobile robots that rapidly move raw materials and finished goods around the plant floor—we have the right tech to fulfill your automation dreams and take your productivity to a level you never thought possible. Plus, with our platform-agnostic approach, you can rest assured that we are solely focused on your success when we select a solution. Below is just a sampling of our solutions designed to address some of the most common productivity pain points we are seeing today. 

See Your Products like Never Before 

With the ability to “see” at speeds the human brain could never comprehend, vision-based inspection systems help you get more, and better, products out the door faster. Plus, with advanced systems that can isolate parts of the color spectrum or detect even the slightest bit of moisture where it shouldn’t be, you can ensure perfection, decrease waste, and greatly reduce the possibility of a costly recall.  

Fine-Tune Factory Logistics 

Instead of wasting your limited human resources on the mundane, yet difficult, task of moving raw materials and finished goods around the factory floor, let the robots do the work. With our well-thought-out mobility plans in place, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) take on these difficult and dangerous tasks, effortlessly transporting materials and products around your factory and freeing up your people to focus on more critical tasks.  

Easily Fulfill Your Regulatory Requirements 

With robots keeping your production in check, you can eliminate the many mistakes that come with performing manual tasks and reduce risks such as cross contamination. Plus, if you need to satisfy requirements to regularly provide production or batch data, we’ve got you covered with a range of highly customized automated data solutions.  

Meet Rapidly Changing Consumer Demands 

Instead of wasting valuable production time regularly manually reconfiguring equipment, automated solutions offer the modularity and flexibility needed to quickly tweak products and packaging.  

Address Fluctuating Demand for a Fraction of the Price 

Hiring temporary help during peak production times is practically impossible. And even when you can find people, all the time it takes to properly train them can decrease productivity. Deployed alongside your people, cobots are safe and easy to program to help pick up production. And, better yet, if a cobot is rented as a service, you may be able to smooth out production problems without a blip in your capital budget.  

Take Safety to the Next Level 

Using advanced robots, such as Spot® from Boston Dynamics, our forward-thinking mindset will keep your employees out of harm's way. Spot can be programmed to perform potentially hazardous industrial inspections, keep a watchful eye on dangerous areas of your plant, Orpatrol the factory floor to catch potentially harmful maintenance issues before they happen.

Keeping Your Robotic Systems Operating Optimally

‍We don’t simply hand off a complex automation solution. Instead, we transfer our knowledge to your team through comprehensive training. We make sure no question goes unanswered, because we don’t consider ourselves successful unless you are. And once we’ve physically left your plant floor, you can rest assured that our highly-trained support team is just a phone call or email away 24/7.