Q - How do you fit within the labor story?
A - Ironically, we actually are adding labor with our machines because we need people to feed them and take it off the out feed - Eric Law
Traditionally we looked at augmenting labor. How do I reduce the number of labor hours I need on a jobsite with a machine? And it’s been going on for over 100 years with automation and caterpillar tractors and stuff and now its robotics. But we're bringing a machine to market that's going to increase the demand for labor. - Eric Law
You get to put people in a manufacturing setting processing lumber. They're not doing the nail pulling. They're operating the robots and the machines and the maintenance on machines. So they're higher skilled jobs. - Eric Law
Robots to create new jobs.
Isn't that always the way. Someone has to operate and maintain and innovate with the machines. Repurposing raw material, back into the local stream, with no long haul transportation.
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