Open World Outcomes, LLC has experience in both large scale and large industrial process automation and best practices. Let us bring robotic systems, automation and digital workforce solutions to your company to increase throughput, reduce waste and provide better quality of life for employees

A lot of misconceptions exist with automation and human-workforce augmentations. Here at OWO, LLC we seek to improve worker conditions through cobotics, assistive robotic processes, complete automation and more. Complete Automation doesn’t mean the absense of employees, it means the absence of hard-labor for those same employees.

OWO, LLC’s philosophy is as follows:

  • Humans are necessary for work because work is human-focused in it’s production
    • Humans don’t make products for machines, machines make products for us.
    • Even products “made for robots” are indirectly made for human products.
  • Robots and machines can produce products many times faster than humans
  • Value-Add in manufacturing employment is outdated
    • A human at ten parts an hour is a drop int he bucket versus 1000 parts an hour per machine
    • Several machines can be managed by one employee
    • One employee can oversee 100x or more of their human-driven production in other machines
  • Humans are still highly valuable, but as a reduction of value loss
    • A human takes a day off, ten parts per hour loss occurs
    • Machine breaks, 1000 parts per hour loss of product or worse if the issue can cause damage while the machines are down
      • Issue with order fulfillment
      • Issue with time-sensitive processes such as acid etching and paint or chemical curing
    • Human workers on-call and ready to tend to machines can greatly reduce the impact of a machine malfunction
  • Repetition and strain is better on a machine with replaceable parts than on a human with joint, RSI and other issues
  • Modern technology allows for repeatable complex processes combined with machine-vision and high-resolution streaming video to management consoles manned by people.
  • Employees can “work” less and earn more.
    • Work here refers to labor, manual or repetitive processes and processes that risk injury
    • Earnings and benefits for employees can now be based on thousands of products per hour instead of ten
    • Business bottom line increases by orders of magnitude. Employee conditions and pay do as well, allowing for employee retention, company interest, and room for employees to consider and submit better processes
      • Production employees are on the line all day and can spot issues and trends
      • Employees stuck in repetitive processes with increasing demand don’t have as much time to document and report issues during work and have little incentive to do so outside of work hours in a labor-intensive task.
  • Employees in today’s world are already familiar with advanced control schemes and dedicated controllers through video games, advanced simulators, and other hobby or entertainment venues.
    • Feedback, digital vision, complex thought with restricted views and more are trained through entertainment daily
    • advanced programming (beyond PLC and programming pendants) allows for simplification of controls for complex robotic actions
    • Gamification of tasks produces instant-gratification reward methods or instant results on experimental or custom processes
    • Input delays and HUD feedback in place of haptic feedback as well as UI/UX and viewports allowing for a variety of FOV and false-color are already widely accepted and sometimes preferred in control schemes in games.

The results of this philosophy:

  • If companies automate the OWO, LLC way, we keep the same people employed, usually for greater pay and benefits while the company sees massive increases in efficiency, production output or both.
  • Depending on the production, lights-out manufacturing can further reduce costs for HVAC and lighting, while maintaining an on-call workforce for issues on third-shift or lights-out conditions
  • The line work is less laborious for the human employees
  • The work can be handled remotely, which is especially useful for harsh environments and dangerous processes
  • once labor-employees are now process managers, tending machines as-needed, with ever-increasing MTBF on those machines
    • Some processes are fully autonomous but may need intervention on errors and malfunctions, people watching for oil and preventive events, etc…
    • Others are digitally driven by remote (if we can remotely drive a robot on Mars, we can make nuts and bolts from an office computer)
  • Company production rises while employee retention grows through better working environments, pay and overall quality of life
    • Lower chance of injury/worker’s compensation claims
    • Lowered company insurance rates for health and injury
    • production rise with same employees
    • New doors for remote employees/on-site remote for additional talent pool with handicapped or otherwise previously disabled employees operating robots digitally from sitting or other necessary positions.
  • Production quality has less chance of human error issues
    • less warranty claims
    • Less RMA
    • More high-quality parts leaving the building with audit trails per-part if needed.

Call or email OWO, LLC today for a consultation or quote on automation systems for your processes. Whether it’s one part of a larger process or a complete production facility, we can handle your project and get your company automated and your employees happy