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JULY 2023 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 41 ties. We've already had an operations manage- ment class visit the lab and I taught the busi- ness undergrad students how to program the cobots so they can understand automation to the point of how to set those priorities. e priority must be set by management, but they can't make that choice unless they understand the technology. An engineer understands the technology but may not understand the business case and constraints. For example, if I'm considering going from producing 400 widgets in a month to 3,000 wid- gets in an hour, how and where I apply automa- tion is a business decision. What do I do with automation when we're already making 10,000 widgets a day, but we have an army of employ- ees who are nearing retirement age? at is a different automation question. You have to train the business side to realize that there are other things they have to consider rather than