Engines and Glass in Flint, Michigan

Flint, Michi­gan has seen a lot of hard­ship in the last 10 years. Once a boom­ing indus­tri­al metrop­o­lis and the birth­place of Gen­er­al Motors, Flint went into receiver­ship in 2002, and the econ­o­my has been slow to recov­er. How­ev­er, despite the econ­o­my, there are some indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ers that decid­ed to stick it out in Flint and keep the city alive.

GM now has an engine oper­a­tions plant in Flint. The fac­to­ry builds motors for sev­er­al dif­fer­ent GM mod­els, and has seen sev­er­al invest­ments from GM for fur­ther fac­to­ry improve­ments and expan­sions. How could GM ben­e­fit from robot­ic automa­tion? Well, that’s sim­ple. Robots have the pre­ci­sion and accu­ra­cy nec­es­sary build engines and improve the pro­duc­tion speed of the fac­to­ry line. An invest­ment in robots for the engine oper­a­tion line would mean less down­time and more product.

Anoth­er large indus­try that has a base in Flint, PPG Indus­tries, can also ben­e­fit from robot­ic automa­tion. This com­pa­ny deals in spe­cial coat­ings, fiber­glass and glass, among oth­er things. Robots not only coat more even­ly than the human hand, but they also use less prod­uct, which saves the com­pa­ny mon­ey. Also, when a com­pa­ny like PPG invests in cut­ting robots, they increase the health lev­el for their employ­ees by tak­ing them away from dan­ger­ous par­ti­cles that are some­times released dur­ing the cut­ting process.

All in all, Flint is on its way, though it may nev­er see its pre­vi­ous hay day again.

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