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WORKFORCE: If They Won’t Come, Build It—With a Robot
The evolution of manufacturing is occurring bit by bit across Iowa—including, among other places, at a metal door factory in Mason City.
Curries, part of the Sweden-based ASSA ABLOY Group, is where roughly 490 production workers go each day to produce steel doors and frames.Since 2012, the company has been working steadily to automate the final phase of its door-handling process—a manual labor-intense procedure that tends to spawn high turnover and can cause the kind of muscle injuries that are common in an aging workforce.