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Since implementing air-pressuretesting, they have seen a big improvement going through the testing facility. Data gathered during the testing process is fed back to the relevant department to improve product quality. The automation within Jayco’ s multiple factories has come at great expense. One of the most recent purchases: a CNC router worth nearly $ 800,000 that has increased output by 40 per cent. It was fascinating to witness‘ collaborative robots’( also known as‘ cobots’) applying a perfectly even bead of silicone to components such as locker doors. Jayco employees more than 800 people. It has seven factories, all on the one site in Dandenong, Vic, and by the company’ s reckoning, there are nearly 300,000 Jayco’ s on the road.
Jayco manufacturing manager Chris Ryan.
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