PORTLAND (WGME) – An Italian manufacturing company with headquarters in Lewiston saw a huge boost in hiring and sales last year. How do they keep hiring and pushing units out the door? Modula starts with finding employees comfortable working alongside robots. "We have invested millions in new technology and then consequentially, having new employees, who are not just workers, but people we want to have growing together with us," Modula CEO Antonio Pagano said.
So, what we're seeing are forms of gamification where you have the ability to have a leaderboard where we can see how long it took person A to complete task B. And now everyone who has to complete that same task are all racing against one another.