Lights-out manufacturing at full factory scale?!

By Rowan Easter-Robinson


Monday 19 January 2026, 7:42:27 AM


With over 3,000 automation installations and 2,000 customers already running its software, System 3R is moving automation beyond individual cells into a fully connected production environment.

In conversation with MTDCNC’s Rowan Easter-Robinson, System 3R’s Patric Jakobsson explains how mobile robots, multi-technology automation, and Workshop Manager software connect milling, EDM, inspection, and washing into one coordinated workflow.

The result? Nonstop production, smarter use of skilled people, and a new way of thinking how manufacturing runs when no one’s watching!



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