RW Screw: Where Automating Processes is a Common Thread: This Northern Ohio contract machine shop increasingly integrates automation, in all its forms, as it adapts to the reality of a continually diminishing talent pool.

The article discusses automating process of RW Screw, a precision machine shop based in Massillon, Ohio. Topics discussed include RW Screw installed collaborative models (cobots) like FANUC CRX-10iA/L six-axis cobots; equipment the shop has found to automate processes including Magazine bar feeders and Vision inspection devices; and tips on automation including take time while integrating robots, establish an automation steering committee, and develop automation engineers.