Have you heard the one about the robot that hops a train down to the brewery? It may not seem likely that robots, beer, and high-speed trains have much in common, but the industrial quest to coax more output from no more input (translate that to efficiency) can make for some unlikely bunkmates.

In the case of Kuka Robotics, Schlafly Bottleworks, and Siemens Rail Systems, that quest for efficiency led to automation.

‘Transforming’ with automation software

If you’re a Transformers movie fan, a Mark Wahlberg fan, or a fan of gratuitous explosions and general mayhem—and I’m guilty of all three—you absolutely positively must be a fan of automation. Without automation there are no robots, and without robots the extraordinary action scenes in Transformers: Age of Extinction would have been impossible.

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