Labor-short Japan more at home with automation than US
Story Date: 8/16/2017

 

Source: Yuri Kageyama, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 8/16/17

Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds — 1,500 a minute, to be exact — on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo.
Nary a soul is in sight…

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