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2020, we tripled the size of our automation team to InLine Engineers
solve these complex customer challenges through with Gary Sisler
the use of highly sophisticated vision systems and Director
fully autonomous robots.
In 2021, our team will be focusing on various areas
of advanced automation to help our customers Despite the global pandemic, InLine Engineers
digitize production and automate more of their continued to have high levels of activity for both
processes. Leading the way will be complex Vision project executions and new sales over the past
Systems, Machine Learning, AI, and Advanced Data 3-4 months. In fact, we set a new record for
Analytics. The innovative technologies of tomorrow quarterly sales in the first quarter for fiscal year
are here today at Gray Solutions. 2021. Over that time period, we added eight
new mid-senior level team members in areas of
Timberwolff program management, project management, and
Construction 3D design. We’re building strong relationships 5
with Mike Wolff and collaboration practices within the Gray family
President of companies by communicating regularly and
exchanging a growing number of sales leads
Happy New Year! Boy this year has started off across the groups. Representatives from Anderson
with a bang! On January 4th we had eight projects Dahlen will be visiting our headquarters in January,
start construction with another four kicking off and we will reciprocate with a trip to Minneapolis
by month’s end. Not typical for this time of year, shortly thereafter.
but we had a couple push due to the pandemic. I We are actively working with Gray (including the
would like to thank our teams for their hard work Gray West and the Gray Charlotte offices) and
this past year. Our IT department was hit hard and Gray Solutions to provide process and packaging
unexpectedly, attempting to provide our entire design support for major greenfield initiatives. As
team remote access nearly overnight while having always, repeat business is vital to our success. We
to train many team members through the process. are currently in the middle of providing significant
We want to thank the IT team; without them there sanitary process and equipment designs for an
would have been many more bumps in 2020. Our existing customer, who is a major producer of hand
leadership team took advantage of slower months sanitizer and related products. On the new customer
and trained our newer team members in the lean front, we have recently deployed a team to California
process preparing them for success for the heavy to drive efficiency improvements for secondary
workload that has now arrived. At the beginning of packaging operations for one of the oldest and
the pandemic, Stephen Gray said, “During these largest producer of canned fruits and vegetables in
times we will take care of our customers.” We did the U.S.
exactly that! In 2020 our team turned over high- Finally, on the heels of the recent physical
quality projects and provided excellent customer expansion of our Cincinnati office and Louisville
service. This resulted in our largest backlog in headquarters, our Atlanta office has signed an
history! Our key customers have aggressive growth agreement to expand their work space by nearly Company
plans for 2021; consequently, we expect this to be a three times their current size by this Spring. Contact updates
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