Latest software, inventions are cutting employer's costs
By Alexander Jackson
A laser Baltimore's Marlin Steel Wire Products has brought on board is allowing the company to get the work of two employees out of one. CEO Drew Greenblatt invested in the laser, TruLaser 1030 by Farmington, Conn.'s TRUMPF Inc., to quicken the growing company's production line. It's done just that. Greenblatt said the laser cost $400,000, but he's expecting to do $1 million more in revenue this year because of it. Marlin Steel's laser will eventually lead to new hires because the laser is leading to new business, Greenblatt said. But its existing employees can already do two to three more jobs a day. Where they used to manually readjust tools for a new shape of wire basket to be produced, employees now simply load a new design on the computer and the laser does the rest of the work. It's saving Greenblatt time, warehouse space and new employees in the process. “I'm making my employees like supermen,” Greenblatt said. “All of the mundane scutwork aspects of their job are now migrated to robots”.
