Kiplinger: More Companies Struggle to Find Workers
Nov, 01 2007
- The Kiplinger Letter, November 9, 2007; Volume 84, Number 45.
[Tustin, CA - November, 2007] Kiplinger estimates labor shortages to severely increase over the next five to ten years. Kiplinger cites the chief factors of this shift to be aging population, education weakness and lack of visas for workers from abroad. Among the most impacted industries will be skilled manufacturing workers and mechanical engineers. This will impact industries from meter mixing to industrial dispensing, hastening the transition toward automation.
“This shift from labor to automation is the natural progression of any industry or practice,” cites Dave Cline, CEO of Fluid Research® Corporation, an industrial dispensing solution provider. “From the caveman - who would carry most items on his back - the advent of the wheel reduced his labor while allowing him to move more items…anywhere. The most recent transition is the most obvious, computers, which have reduced manual labor in almost every industry."
Fluid Research Corporation provides automated dispensing solutions to reduce labor and increase consistency, “We want users to be able to press a button and walk away knowing their dispensing system will perform the tasks necessary,” states Cline. “Consistency is an added benefit; when you reduce human error, you radically increase repeatability.”