You can thank people and robots for that aromatic bread smell coming out of King’s Hawaiian in Oakwood.
“Half of our operation is very manual, so it’s people doing a lot of the movement of the product,” plant manager Rob Hathy said to a group of visitors in February. “But the other half is automated, (including) our mixing, our dough balling, our oven and some of our packaging.
Robotics technology transforms local manufacturing industry
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