For CT manufacturers, robots, automation technology seen as crucial to addressing labor shortage

For CT manufacturers, robots, automation technology seen as crucial to addressing labor shortage

Nasir Mannan is the principal engineer at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology in East Hartford, which demonstrates robots and other automation technologies for manufacturers. When Jeffrey Davis took the reins at New London’s historic Sheffield Pharmaceuticals in 2016, he knew there was one big problem he needed to solve. Jeffrey Davis “Our production lines were still very manually run with a lot of people,” Davis said in a recent interview. “Quickly, I saw the writing on the wall that it was getting harder to hire people — fewer people wanted to do those sorts of jobs.”

The solution: Automation, […]

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