The robot equipment industry is one word for alarmist articles and television news programs to predict the registration is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks!
Well,
not the actual use of the word this week at the Automate 2013 trade
show held here by Thursday, but the sentiment was the same. During a presentation on Monday, tax Henrik I. Christensen,
Chairman of Kuka Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Computing, sharp recent "60 Minutes" report on automation
was based on the work of the MIT economists Andrew McAfee and Erik
Brynjolfsson.The
two economists in 2011 wrote "Race Against the Machine," a book renewed
the debate about the relationship between the speed of automation and
employment growth. They
argue that accelerating the pace of automation and robotics are pushing
into new areas of the workforce as a white-collar jobs were previously
believed to be outside the scope of computers.During his talk, Dr. Christensen said that the evidence showed that the opposite was true. While
automation can change the workforce and the elimination of certain
positions, it also creates new types of jobs generally pay better and
require highly skilled workers."We
see today that the United States is still the largest manufacturing
country in terms of dollar value," Dr. Christensen said. "It is also important to remember that manufacturing produces more jobs in areas related than anything else."An
officer of the International Federation of Robotics automation debate
had sprung back to life in the United States, but he said that America
alone was a concern of robots and automation."This
is not happening in either Europe or Japan," said Andreas Bauer,
chairman of the executive group of the federal industrial robot
suppliers and Kuka Robotics, a German robot manufacturer.To
support the claim that automation is not a job killer but instead a way
for the U.S. to compete against foreign competitors are becoming more
advanced, the industry group reported results on Tuesday that he said
he would published in February. The federation said the industry would directly and indirectly create 1900000-3500000 jobs worldwide by 2020.Federal
news media event was described two chief executives of small American
manufacturers how they were able to increase both employment and
compete against foreign companies rely heavily on automation and robots."Automation
is our ability to compete globally. Fully have created jobs in
southwest Michigan," said Matt Tyler, chief executive of Vickers
Engineering, an auto parts supplier. "It
was not posted for automation, we would not beat our Japanese
competitors; we want to beat our competitors of China; we want our
competitors beat Mexico. Fact."Also
the case was Drew Greenblatt, quoted widely president and owner Marlin
Steel, a Baltimore manufacturer of steel products have managed to
expand and post other are deploying robots and machines to workers'
productivity."In December, we had a job from a Chicago company that bought more than a decade from China," he said. "It
is sheet-metal bracket; 160,000 sheet metal brackets, year after year.
Was in China, now they are made in Baltimore, using a steel plant in
Indiana and made the robot in Connecticut."A
German robotics engineer argued that automation was necessary to
preserve jobs and is also essential that a national economy can support
social programs."Countries
with high productivity can be a good social system and a good health
system," said Alexander Verl, one of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Manufacturing Engineering in Germany. "You
see to some extent in Germany or Sweden. Countries are highly
automated, but at the same time that they spend money on elderly care
and the health system."In
a report presented Tuesday at the federal, the U.S. lags Germany, South
Korea and the Japan the manufacturing robots employees density
(measured as the number of robots per 10,000 workers). South
Korea, in particular, a sharp increase in the robot-to-worker ratio in
the last three years and Germany has twice the density of robot as the
United States, according to a presentation by a John Dulchinos member
of the board of Adept Industrial Association chief Robot Technology, a maker of Pleasanton, Calif., robots.The
report shows that while China and Brazil are increasing the number of
robots in factories, they still trail the advanced manufacturing
countries.Mr. Dulchinos said the United States had only itself to blame for the decline in the manufacturing sector over the past decade."I can tell you that at the end of the 1990s, my company was the largest segment of the cellular phone market," he said. "Overnight
the industry almost went away, partly because we did not do as good a
job which required that the competitive industry."He
said that if the higher American robots it would be possible for the
companies to maintain the lowest cost of production in the United
States."They all got packed up and shipped to China," said Mr. Dulchinos. "And
so you fast forward to today and there are over one billion cellphones
are produced per year and that one produced in the United States."But, despite the growing concern about the effects of automation on the economy, some of the bright spots. The industry is now generating $ 25 billion in annual revenue. The Federation hopes to produce 1.6 million robots each year by 2015.Mr. Greenblatt said that one of the advantages of robots they did not take breaks."My robots are going to work during the Super Bowl," he said. "Do you know how popular I'd have to ask my employees to work during the Super Bowl?"
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