Metalworking automation is an inevitable process that will be latent as part of the value propositions of FABTECH 2023
Mexico's metal forming and metal components manufacturing market is still a permanent evolution as an adjustment mechanism adjustment to maintain its competitiveness in a changing environment where the new value chain composition and metalworking automation —an option to a lack of technified labor hand — set the pace.
Rosario Soto, CEO at DISMA Metalmecanica, arrived from Spain 30 years ago to promote Spanish machines in the Mexican industry and has been a witness and protagonist of this evolutionary process. "For all industrials, the need to incorporate technology into their production processes is vital because by having adequate machinery, peripherals, and automation, better products are achieved, faster, more versatile and at a lower price."
Based on her experience as a machinery representative from Spain and several other European countries, Soto believes that those countries that manufacture machines have the right tool to supply their industry and present themselves as production generators. That is why she firmly believes that technology will help Mexico face current and future challenges. Experienced metalworking
DISMA, throughout its three decades in the Mexican market, has been a permanent protagonist of FABTECH Mexico, a forum in which, according to the CEO, manufacturing and machinery trends from around the world are shown. She had observed how the industry had changed technologically and in terms of its human resources. The value centered on cheap labor, with which Mexico used to present itself to the world, is different today because its high manufacturing quality has allowed Mexican companies to be export power.
This explains why companies in the country are betting on more technology and, as in other countries, are looking for increasingly automated machinery, contributing to a global trend of industrial development.
As it happens in other latitudes, Mexican manufacturers face problems related to the shortage of skilled labor, "in addition to the fact that it is no longer cheap and has much mobility. I usually visit many companies, and they always seem to ask for skilled technicians."
Therefore, industrial companies are looking for machinery with numeric controls and software to design, program, and store products and process information, as well as peripheral equipment such as robotics to raise productivity without depending on human resources.
A world of opportunities
As a provider of metalworking technology and solutions, DISMA has specialists in the metalworking sector, technical and business advisors, maintenance, training, commissioning, and after-sales consulting, for all processes involving the machinery they distribute. "In FABTECH Mexico, we can show these support services to our client in detail." Soto is confident that there is currently a world of opportunities for manufacturing in Mexico and that the automation of metalworking will allow taking advantage of the reshoring phenomenon. "There is a world of possibilities. In Mexico, many things are done, but many others must be done. The industrial sector has room for innovation, productivity, and development. Mexican industrialists are brave, creative, and capable of producing anything that is asked of them. "