Hughes Brothers has been investing in robotics to increase production and reduce the likelihood of repetitive task injuries to employees. We hired an automation specialist to oversee this process and are making great strides to automate more products. We started by moving the products we had already been doing like welded washer nuts and shear blocks to new h-frame robotic systems. We then started working on automating the welding of base plates with gussets. Welding gussets into stock base plates has long been a bottleneck due to the large amount of welding time. In addition, the base plates are heavy, so rotating them often has the possibility of repetitive task injury or fatigue on hotter days in the factory. We are now seam welding davit tubes by making the tube in two halves, or a clamshell. With the addition of the robotic system and another seam welder we are hoping to reduce our davit lead times in the coming months. These additions will allow us to fully utilize the capacity of the davit building and all the welding positioners. Welders that once before may have been welding gussets into base plates, can now work on more complicated processes like davits. And automation has not reduced our workforce, rather, we are adding welders to keep up with the raw output of the components created. As we grow, automation will have a big part in our success.