In Today’s competitive global markets, end-users are scrambling to reduce costs and improve asset utilization. Many large companies have eliminated systems engineering and maintenance, preferring to outsource these functions. Mirroring this change, large controls vendors are expanding their offerings to “total solutions” responsibility, including systems integration, supply logistics, training and maintenance services.
An every entrepreneur always strives for the profitability in the business. A business of manufacturing activity is becoming competitive due to globalization.
Swift developments in technology, increasing affordability and awareness have made manufacturing field a prime candidature for automation.
High level of automation may not be necessary at all the places. However, It is a lovely scene to watch robot assembling the wind shield on cars one after the other with out breaks, an enclosed sophisticated caged automation producing medical vials at extremely high output rates, a line of engine assembly producing engines after engines with envied precision and repeatability. All these scenes have become normal in manufacturing industries. What you can prominently notice in such automations is total or partial absence of human being. That’s automation of manufacturing.
In manufacturing industry there are manufacturing engineers who generally decide, plan and execute manufacturing process for product being produced. While in initial stage the process of manufacturing engineering plays vital role in decision making about ‘How’ the products will be produced efficiently, fast, error free and of highest standard.
Many aspects needs to be considered while deciding the method of manufacturing. Generally there are t...
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...handling explosives, charging atomic fuel in to reactors are the most dangerous task and must be considered for automation.
Automation can always provide great solutions to many problems of manufacturing activities. A buyer of automation system shall have contemplated view about facility management. A buyer of automation system shall always have benchmark criterion to weigh the advantage of automation systems and for creating healthy and encouraging working atmosphere for manufacturing activities against financial investments.
Automation is good, if contemplated. Capital depreciation is generally swallowed by the overhead rate, making automation seem the easy route to lower labor costs. In reality, major capital investment demands a toll on the profits of every product in a profit center and depletes the company's funds.
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In her introduction, Barbara Garson gives the reader an idea of her personal work experience as a clerk with automation. One can see that Garson is a strong critique of automation. In order to convey how automation is affecting our society the author begins by analyzing and studying various jobs from the bottom on up (i.e. starting with the most unskilled labor).
The question of what should be automated in our world is one that deserves serious contemplation. In a time when technology seems to race past our population at an incredible rate, the thought of our whole world being automated is not a radical concept. It has been predicted that in the near future, every aspect of our society will contain some sort of automation. But what is automation exactly? A Webster’s Dictionary for college students defines automation as “the handling and fabrication of materials by automatic machinery, especially when no part of the process is done by hand.”1 The same source gives the definition of automatic as “operated by self-acting machinery.”2 My idea of automation is a machine taking over a job that a human used to perform in such a way that the machine acts on its own to accomplish the task. Webster seems to aim at automation under the terms of machinery; but in our world today, most of the automation we are concerned with involves computers. Computers are said to be a billion times faster than human beings and are known for their capability to hold more information than humans ever could. So in a world where automation is beginning to gain more and more ground on a daily basis, most aspects of our society have seen its effects.
Any production line involves some form of inspection; the most basic form is manual visual inspection. This kind of inspection is not always the least expensive or the most reliable. For example, metal sheets are monitored visually by trained personnel, which require a very slow production line for reliable detection and to insure the inspector’s safety. Such systems are very costly due to the slower production speed; they are also labor intensive and labor dependent and need to be a separate stage to avoid production line interruptions. Thus a less expensive more reliable automated system is needed.
The reason why we need to discuss this issue, is mainly because the problem may be deeply rooted to the modern business & entrepreneurial attitude and philosophy, which hasn’t changed much since industrial revolution: human economic thinking (competitiveness), technological progress and productivity. Europe and United States are two, most affected parts of the world by mechanization and automation, as both are on a similar level of economic and technological development and wealth, however, in present globalized world the less developed countries will likely to follow soon, if they have not already. According to Jeremy...
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Increasing the productivity – Configuration management with the aid of automation, reduces the IT staff time.
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, allows a machine to function as if the machine has the capability to think like a human. While we are not expecting any hovering cars anytime soon, artificial intelligence is projected to have a major impact on the labor force and will likely replace about half the workforce in the United States in the decades to come. The research in artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly at an unstoppable rate. So while many people feel threatened by the possibility of a robot taking over their job, computer scientists actually propose that robots would benefit a country’s efficiency of production, allowing individuals to reap the benefits of the robots. For the advantage of all, researchers and analysts have begun to mend the past ideas of human-robot interaction. They have pulled inspiration from literary works of Isaac Asimov whom many saw as the first roboticist ahead of his time, and have also gotten ideas of scholarly research done by expert analysts. These efforts have began to create an idea of a work force where humans and robots work together in harmony, on a daily basis.
The need of a bite of automation in SME's becomes a key reason for the huge demand of AVG in the various industrial field. High degree of accuracy and precision to minimize the error and improved lead time, extreme flexibility over other available material handling system makes it a popular and highly preferred material handling option in SME's. It can be adopted any environment and cheap among autonomous robot. There is a significant amount of difference between theoretical and practical work cycle value of time which can be optimized by adopting different
We need to acknowledge at the outset that CMMS are not for every organization and that current research shows that as much as fifty percent of all CMMS start up have failed to pay back a meaningful return on investment after two years of operations. That is to say in many cases the heavy investment in CMMS information technologies have failed to live up to the much publicized benefits of automation and have delivered some disappointed results. So we do not want to give the impression that CMMS in themselves will cure all the ills of the profession and to advice against walking into the same technology trap that are endemic to the business community at large. In a rush to automate every job function that affects organizational efficiency and bottom line profits, many managers are overlooking important caveats inherent in all information technology implementations. This highlights the point that an organization needs to know how to find the right CMMS and how to implement and maintain the system. The decreasing costs of computer hardware, and the emerging power of microcomputers and software technologies, have disguised the question of feasibility.
Material handling system is an important equipment and in the design of an effective manufacturing design. One of the main tasks in material handling system design is the selection and setup involving apparatus, demanding comprehensive technical understanding along with methodical research. Material handling equipment selection is a very complex and tedious task. The main factors contributing to the complexity of the equipment selection problem is the constraints imposed by the facility and materials, a variety of disagreeing design and style requirements, anxiety inside functional environment, and some of equipment varieties in addition to designs accessible. In recent years, the equipment selection
Automation started out as an assembly line of workers doing the same repetitive task all day long. Some of the jobs were very boring, dirty, unpleasant, and possibly dangerous. After the introduction of the first robot in 1961, automation began to advance in ways people could only imagine.
In manufacturing process there are different steps and jobs needs to be done in specific ways and time such as sourcing the parts we need in the production, make the items, and shipping it for the customers.
So, they are bound to have some disadvantages in the long run. The first disadvantage is when you cannot perform complicated or non- repetitive tasks. One of the main disadvantage of automated machines is that, since they are programmed, they are only able to do tasks that are programmed in them and only can do these tasks repeatedly(“Automation”). The second disadvantage is that they are costly, they have high initial investment. Since, many automated machines use the latest hardware, software and technology it is given that these are very expensive and they require a lot of money and high investment(“Automation”). As a starting manager or a business owner, you will have to find a way that can allow you to produce such a high investment. The final disadvantage is the required maintenance and training. Another disadvantage of automated machines is that they require high maintenance and for proper usage of the machines workers are required to go through intense training and should learn how to properly use the machine for high quality results(“Automation”). A good training to the workers assures a good functionality for the
Some of the company may think that humans have so much weakness to produce a high-quality product for their company. For many reasons, these companies choose robots because they just think of the advantages of the robots. From the article “Benefits of Robots,” robots are noticeable in good performing the productivity, safety, and in saving cost and time. Robots are programmed to be a perfect human creature that is why they look so perfect when performing their duty. For these companies that replacing the humans to the robots because robots never bored to do repetition jobs, unlike a human being that depends on their mood to do the jobs willingly or unwillingly. The robots even can produce more precise works than human. They can do the works with very rare mistakes because they are formatted to produce a high quality in their jobs. Moreover, robots never complain about their stresses at work or about their employer; they just do their work with a constant speed without holidays or breaks until they can’t be used anymore. So, the companies can produce a new product in a short time because these robots never slacking off from their duty and used the time perfectly. According to Jaimy Lee, in an article “Robots Get To Work,” the health care in the hospitals are looking forward to make things easier and cheaper and think these automate robots can help them to reduce the costs and
The automated machines will replace human labour because they are more efficient. Machines can also do more work of several humans making the automated machines more desirable by the employers to cut down production costs. Machines can be fitted to the job unlike the human...