Automation leader says reshoring ‘a matter of national security’

In the latest episode of the Bring it Home podcast, Brian McMorris, founder and president of Futura Automation, said he sees robotics and investments in automation playing a role in reshoring decisions.

Bring It Home celebrates the North American manufacturing renaissance, reindustrialization and reshoring taking place across the continent. Its co-hosts are Craig Fuller, founder and CEO of Firecrown Media, and JP Hampstead, strategic analyst at Firecrown.

Meet McMorris

McMorris, whose company offers automation solutions to manufacturers and helps them with the economics of bringing their operations back to the U.S., has been in the automation industry since 1980. He said he wanted to work in robotics since childhood.

“I grew up with the Jetsons,” McMorris said. “I had that in my mind, but there really wasn’t much in the way of robotics back in the early ’80s. But by the ’90s they became more prevalent, and I joined companies at that time – a couple of different companies – that were focused on the robot industry.”

By 2015, McMorris had become vice president of Adept Robotics – one of the last American manufacturers of robots – until it was acquired by Omron Robotics later that year and his position was eliminated …

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