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Deployment / Manufacturing

How a 900-person brake-parts plant cut weld scrap by 31%

Halder Präzision spent €96,000 on two camera cells and stopped throwing away eleven tonnes of steel a year.

4 Aug · Anita Raghavan · 9 min

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