Digital determination

Published On: July 1, 2020Categories: Features

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Adding automation can prove challenging, with costs to consider, processes to change and nervous employees to reckon with. Still, fabricators who have taken the leap
say there’s no other way to go. 

By Pamela Mills-Senn

When Darren Arthur, owner of Nautilux Custom Canvas LLC in Hazlet, N.J., purchased a single-fly Aeronaut cutter eight years ago—his first foray into automation—most in the industry felt such technology was better-suited for large, high-volume shops, not small operations like his. At the time, Arthur, who provides custom textile products to the marine industry, had just one […]