How Covid-19 has changed the sheet metal business Smart Factory solutions How Covid-19 has changed the sheet metal business UK — The Coronavirus pandemic affected all industries across the globe like no other event in recent history. Shane Langston, Solutions Sales Manager at Lantek UK, examines how Covid-19 has changed the sheet metal business. Related Companies (Source: Lantek) The immediate impact of Covid-19 was the need for staff to work from home if possible, which meant that that tasks like programming the cutting machines and preparing quotations needed to be quickly made operational from home offices. About 40 percent of our customers had an immediate need for this capability as soon as lockdown started. Because of the work that Lantek had already done on remote access in the operation of its Expert software we were able to implement floating licences for our software the same day as we received a request from the customer. We managed to do this without the need to visit the customer’s site using remote access software to set up the applications and ensure that they were working correctly.