It looks like the industry might soon find itself in a tricky situation.

The supply of skilled labour is running dry and robots, which could effectively replace human workers, are still not within the price range of many processors.

While factory management and staffing agencies work hard to convince young people that the factory floor is not cold, wet and noisy, and that a life behind a computer is not all it’s cracked up to be, equipment makers are trying to bring down the cost of robots to make them an affordable alternative for processors worldwide.

But