George Bernard Shaw famously said “Progress is impossible without change".
This gives us a simple choice: we can sit back and let change happen to us, or we can be catalysts for change ourselves. At Desoutter, we very much embrace the latter approach.
Our innovation program ensures that existing Desoutter products are continuously improved upon to boost flexibility, boost performance and boost up-time. However, there comes a moment when the existing product parameters have been pushed as far as they can. At this point, we have to take a step away from our existing approach, however successful it may have been, and ask whether there is a better way of achieving our aims. Some people call this going back to first principles: I call it the ‘game-changer moment’.
Desoutter is making significant progress with a new concept for assembly applications which I certainly believe justifies the term “game-changer”. The key driver is the growing demand from our customers for tools and software that will enable Industry 4.0.