Pittsburgh, PA -- (SBWire) -- 02/19/2016 --Mitchell Weiss, CTO of Seegrid, a maker of automated, vision-guided vehicles for manufacturing and distribution facilities was featured in Plant Services magazine. Plant Services, PlantServices.com and Plant Services E-Newsletters reach a monthly worldwide audience of over 150,000 manufacturing professionals responsible for optimizing the productivity, asset utilization and manufacturing reliability for more than 35,000 industrial plants, facilities and utilities in North America and across the globe. Weiss talked to Plant Services recently about the concept of scalable automation and how taking a step-by-step approach to automation can help save an organization time and frustration – and help protect the bottom line.

Weiss noted, "I've always been in the robotics and flexible automation space, and the approach we take in that space is you don't look at (manufacturing) as an end-to-end process; you look at it as a bunch of components of processes that in the whole make up customers' end-to-end process. The idea of scalable automation is to take a piece of (a process) and automate that with some tool that you might be able to redeploy or reuse."

"This was the original idea behind industrial robots. You could program them for a job, and if that job wasn't available in a couple years, you could redeploy them to another job. (If I) put 10 robots on the line, I get 10 times the work done. But I only add them one a time. So I've taken out the capital risk (by doing) it in a scalable, modular, piece-at-a-time fashion," added Weiss.

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About Seegrid
Seegrid (http://www.seegrid.com), the pioneer and leader in three-dimensional vision navigation, provides unique and revolutionary automation technology for materials handling. Engineered with state-of-the-art Seegrid Vision, industrial trucks are transformed into the next generation of AGVs: vision guided vehicles (VGVs). VGVs navigate without wires, lasers, magnets, or tape, and deliver unmatched flexibility. Designed for simplicity and reliability, the Seegrid flexible automation solution is offered in a line of pallet trucks and tow tractors.

Experience the maximum benefits of VGVs with Seegrid Supervisor to manage, monitor, and control a fleet of vehicles in context of your operation. Generating economic advantages and operational efficiencies, VGVs optimize workflow processes, increase productivity and throughput, labor optimization and operating costs. An award-winning organization, Seegrid is experiencing significant growth both in employees and clients. Multi-billion dollar organizations focused on lean manufacturing best-practices are turning to the Pittsburgh-based robotics leader. From large automotive operations to retail distribution centers, Seegrid VGVs are advancing the reality of a Fork Truck Free approach. VGVs improve workplace safety, reduce equipment and product damage, and deliver a rapid return on investment.

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