Fairfield-based manufacturing conglomerate General Electric said Wednesday that it has opened a new lab at its Plainville facility that will use robotics and automated processes to build production lines for a new circuit breaker product to launch next year.
The 8,000-square-foot lab, located in the company’s Woodford Avenue facility, allows GE engineers to better collaborate with its engineering design team in the earliest stages of product development for the molded-case circuit breaker product, called GuardEon, the company said.
The company plans to produce the new product in Puerto Rico.
GE has been increasing its presence in Plainville. It now has approximately 200 employees there. GE opened a new product accelerator lab at the same Plainville address last year, which houses its Industrial Solutions business.
Correction: The original version of this story gave an incorrect employee count for GE’s Plainville operations. The company has approximately 200 employees there.
