Automation And Automation

Automation is the use of machines to operate and control various and different types of jobs and equipment. Automation is not a new concept. In fact, it’s history leads back to the 1780s in the term of a flourmill. However, Automation was not popularized until the 1930s when Car factories started using machines in order to get feedback on their car’s durability. Automation nowadays can be in many forms including mechanical, electronics and computers and automation is the core of modern transportation and can be found in almost all of transportation methods. Automation however, had a lot of controversies circulating around it. Employees are struggling to find internal happiness especially when they question whether they provide any value to their companies anymore. Another controversy is the fact that a single machine could replace 12 humans and do their work more efficiently. Many argue that Automation is the reason that caused Unemployment. However, Automation created new jobs and industries and with care it can lead to massive profit and save many lives. On the other hand Automation still has negative consequences despite its benefits. These consequences however can be solved with ease.

When looking at the increasing rate of Unemployment, Automation usually is what people blame for what’s wrong with the world considering it is an industry where machines can do what men cannot faster and more efficient. Nevertheless, Automation is a rich industry that constructed new jobs and markets to the world. Markets like Steel, automobile and aluminum are industries that with the help of automation opened thousands of doors and job opportunities. It is true that machines nowadays can do what a group of men can do in a record breaking tim...

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...em and prepare them for the new demands of the industry. Other solutions can be providing medical coverage for them. Long range health care benefits and low cost access to high education.

As a final point, Automation is the future and machines will soon replace more and more tasks and people and there is no way of stopping it. We can live in constant fear that someday robots will go crazy and rule the world and be afraid of the future and keep blaming machines for our mistakes or we can learn to control those machines for our needs. After all, Machines can only benefit us or harm us if we humans let them to it. On the other hand, we need to keep in mind that no matter how many machines are being produced and no matter how many employees got or will be replaced because of automation a machine will never replace what us human can give Hope, love and kindness.