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Robotics technology transforms local manufacturing industry
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A worker touches up the paint on a chassis March 2, 2018, after it passed through automated powder coat paint booths at the Kubota RTV manufacturing facility in Lula. - photo by David Barnes
You can thank people and robots for that aromatic bread smell coming out of King’s Hawaiian in Oakwood. “Half of our operation is very manual, so it’s people doing a lot of the movement of the product,” plant manager Rob Hathy said to a group of visitors in February. “But the other half is automated, (including) our mixing, our dough balling, our oven and some of our packaging.