By Henrik Christiansen, Graphic Robotics

The coronavirus has hit the printing industry hard, but as with most unforeseen crises, the crisis itself often generates an opportunity to re-think the situation and find new, intelligent ways to a more prosperous future with solutions which might even generate a higher profitability. 

The most immediate and important challenge from the coronavirus, and perhaps other future unknown viruses and diseases, is: “How to protect the valuable and skilled workforce from being infected?”. It doesn’t take a magician to come up with the correct answer: “To reduce the size of the workforce and the physical contacts within the workforce with new levels of automation and robotization!”—i.e., the implementation of Industry 4.0 in the printing industry.