What drives the adoption of automation is not "labour is expensive" but "labour is unavailable", "labour is too slow to obtain/train", "labour is imprecise", "l

What drives the adoption of automation is not "labour is expensive" but "labour is unavailable", "labour is too slow to obtain/train", "labour is imprecise", "labour is dangerous", "labour is untrustworthy" or "labour is unreliable". Generic industrial automation solutions are still very expensive to integrate unless simplistic. Furthermore, if you automate one unit operation, the rest of your process line also needs automating or the adjacent operations will simply become the new choke points.