Edward Machin investigates automation in manufacturing, one of the industry’s rising stars given its potential to increase machine time, flexibility and reduce waste material. Just don’t mention the whole unemployment thing…
Human labour employed solely to serve their robot masters; Ethernet-based information technology driving all aspects of production; and, at worst, the rendering of entire workforces surplus to requirements. While it may seem like a bleak, dystopian vision lifted from the pages of Orwell, Huxley or Vonnegut, to the uninitiated automation can represent precisely such a…
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