...replacement we now have machines. In the last couple of decades, technology has taken massive strides and grown immensely. Communication is easier, more gadgets are available and tasks are becoming easier through technology. However, nothing is perfect and technological advancements will have many negative impacts on society. Complex robots and machines are being made daily and sold to companies who are replacing factory workers. Machines work more efficient than humans and do the work without major drawbacks. The book Player Piano, and the movie i, Robot display a dystopian world run by machines and robots. Player Piano is set in a world where machines are replacing every human laborer, and the only humans surviving are the machine engineers. In i, Robot, robots have been given to every household in Chicago but there are problems that come with such a luxury. To add on, the articles "Better than human: why robots will - and must - take our jobs" and an article by Forbes.com mention the harmful effects of automation, and what the scary future may look like. The significant growth, productivity, and reliability of robots and machines will soon replace most human labor and make it difficult to find employment. Despite the great advantages of using technology; the more it develops, the more it will overshadow society. The job market will only be more competitive in the future, and unfortunately, only the strong will survive. Gradually over time, machines will be replacing workers...
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...Should we be the machines’ allies? History is repeating itself in another different way, let me explain. The industrial revolution affected the society in many ways-‐ positively and negatively. People were afraid of lose their jobs for the machines; technological progress was a threat for them, especially for textile workers. However, labor’s share of GDP remained constant throughout this era -‐ this happened because the high productivity of the machines dropped the prices of products become them cheaper and easier accessible to the workers; real income increases as firms could pay more to the employers-‐ men and women. Now, in the New Machine Age 1 what is happening is that people are being replaced by computers and new technologies that are more productive and cheaper than humans. As such, unemployment are increasing in much of ...
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...radiation machines. These machines were able to target fast growing cancer cells and destroy them with x-rays and electromagnetic rays. Each new version of the machine contained major improvements for cancer treatments. However, with the release of the Therac-25 version came issues of over-exposure to radiation and deaths for already suffering cancer patients. There has since been a big debate about who is liable in the situation – The AECL, the hospitals, the operators, or the FDA. There are many reasons that the AECL, the creators of the Therac-25 machine, should not be liable for the injuries and deaths caused by the machines. First of all, consider the purpose of a person who works for a company or corporation. That is, to create and sell products that help the company make as much money as possible. The success or failure of that company depends on whether or not the products sell. Therefore, if a company produces a bad, unethical, or unsafe product, it is the job of the consumers to do their research and not purchase the product. It’s simple: if consumers don’t buy bad products, the company won’t be successful and continue selling them. The AECL did their job, which was to create a product that customers wanted to buy. The second reason the AECL should not be liable is because they met all of the requirements of the third party company whose job was to protect the everyday citizens from harmful medical devices. The two major changes with the newer machine were the software...
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...As robots and machines steadily grow to become larger parts of our lives, a controversial question arises: How do robots affect our futures? Many people are afraid of what robots could do to us, while others focus on the things they can do for us. Robot technology will benefit human life because it will improve several aspects of our lives. Humans will be able to expand their work and grow as a society if robots take our jobs and integrate themselves into our lives. In Kevin Kelly’s article, “Better Than Human”, he states, “This is not a race against the machines… This is a race with the machines.” He shows readers that we must collaborate with robots in order to better our way of life and create more jobs. By allowing robots to do the jobs that already exist, we are also allowing for the improvement of the human race. Additionally, “The Real Cyborgs”, an article by Arthur House, includes a diagram that demonstrates the types of advancements that could be made to the human body through robotic implants. For example, some sections of the diagram illustrate “brain implants that augment memory” and “interchangeable limbs...
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...Are we in a Race Against the Machine? For that answer maybe, we should ask the McDonald's employee who is slowly being replaced by a self-service kiosk. Or the Schnuck’s employee who found their hours cut due to the fact more and more people are using the self-checkout lanes. Technology has definitely made our lives more convenient, but that convenience comes at a cost. How many times have you used an app for curbside pickup for your food? Purchased clothes online? Ordered a pizza? Every time we make one of those purchases, we need to keep in mind that that was someone's job at some point. Machines will never be able to take over every job sector, but those low skill jobs will probably be a thing of the past in the not so distant future. What does all of this mean for those low skilled workers?...
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...decision and presents their evidence to the management committee together with their personal views as to which of two alternative machines ought to be bought. No conclusion is reached in the case. Some notes on the Rochem Ltd case exercise The equipment purchase decision in general It is unusual for facilities to be chosen on one criterion only. For example, if a piece of equipment is needed immediately and only one model or make is available without considerable delivery delays, then the criterion of availability has predominated. Normally, however, in addition to availability there are two other groups of criteria which are used: technical and financial. Technical criteria The most obvious technical criterion is capability that is, can the equipment do the job required of it? Certainly this criterion can be used as an initial screening test to eliminate obviously unsuitable equipment, but often there will be several which ostensibly meet the criterion. It may be that the capability requirements are difficult to define or predict, or that none of the alternative machines completely fulfils the requirements. As well as absolute capability, variation in capability can be important, variation both in the sense of reliability, and the process variability in performance which the machine displays. The relative reliability of alternative machines is usually difficult to predict in advance of purchase. However, if manufacturers are prepared to give service guarantees then...
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...As we can see, on the calculations; the company has chosen labour hours for the allocation base. But when we do the calculations with the machine hours with the allocation base, we face with a huge difference and moreover see a lower total cost, which make high the profit. Making profit higher will be a good thing, so the company should choose the machine hours for their allocation base and calculations. In addition; because of the technology improvement and automation; machinery will be more usable and effective. Moreover, because the machines will be heterogenous, we will then need different number of labor for each. Some of them is highly-automated whereas some of them is low-automated. So, again we understand that machine hours will be a better allocation base then labour hours. Labour hours Machine hours Standard products (high volume) 2500 3500 Specialised products (low volume) 1500 3000 Total 4000 6500 Difference Budgeted labour rate 42,5 279500/6500=43 -0,5 Budgeted overhead burden 149,825 599300/6500=92,2 57,625 Total Cost 192,325 135,2 57,125 2) As known, the most commonly used allocation base in traditional costing is direct labor hours. We can also see this in the case. But at this point, we may face with some problems such that in this process overhead is increasing while direct labor is decreasing. There is an 1800$ increase whereas 46% increase in the overheads dramatically. Moreover, we see a variance and complexity in the production process...
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...Not all of the necessary information such as tolerances or finishes is obtained at the time that the order is placed. Also, at the time the order is placed is when the raw materials are ordered which adds an additional 1-2 weeks of processing time. Aside from the additional processing time from not keeping raw materials on hand, production time has increased from 2 weeks after receiving materials to 4 weeks. The increase in production time is due to recent addition of processing large orders, which subsequently increases the amount of time needed for smaller orders. Time management is critical in managing efficiency. There are bottlenecks and they may vary from different machine centers. 90% of the time is spent waiting for a machine to become available and the other 10% is spent actually using the machine. In addition the layout of the facility allows for additional travel time than what is necessary. Each problem is described more in depth below. Problem #1 – Issues with the order taking process. There is only one person who takes orders. And when the order is taken sometimes all the necessary information is not obtained, such as tolerances or finishes. When all of the information is not taken at the time the order is placed, someone has to take additional time during the processing time to call the customer and get the rest of the required information. Also, if there are a lot of orders, the process can be bottlenecked because only...
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...Module 1 – Introduction to the use of organizational metaphors One of the visions of the future I was given as a child growing up was that of totally automated factories where computers control every aspect of the operation, and robots executed every function required. Humans would no longer be needed to do mundane or dangerous tasks, and we could instead spend our days sitting by our pools, sipping cocktails and pondering what else we could do with all of our free time that technology provided. Fast forward in time to our modern reality. Computers and robots have indeed modernized production lines, and technology has permeated nearly every facet of our lives. Modern factories and businesses have become so technological that it is the roles of humans and machines have blurred. The truth is, however, that no matter how sophisticated machines may be; human intervention and participation is still essential to the smooth functioning of any organization. The subject of our case study, the Telebank call centre, is a very flat organization that is based on a functional structure. They have three categories of employees, so there aren’t the successive levels of supervisors or managers found in many other types of organizations. I think that this company replicates a “machine” in many ways. The work is repetitive and monotonous. Except for inputs of emotion to customize the experience for callers and to demonstrate some empathy to their plight, the basic tasks remain the same...
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...situated in Shendra MIDC and Chikalthana MIDC. Our factory is established in approx.5000 sq. ft. and now we are at the edge to expand our capabilities. We are inviting all interested parties for heavy lathe job work. We are bonded for our quality job work and also delivering Job work with in time as per order. Workshop information: Our factory is equipped with following kind of machineries: 1. Heavy duty special purpose Lathe machines having turning capacity up to 750 mm. 2. Two heavy duty 7 foot Lathe machines with 300 mm center height. 3. One 5 foot heavy duty Lathe machine 250 mm center height. 4. Cylindrical Grinding machine with 250 mm center height. 5. Milling Machine 6. Surface grinding machine. 7. Argo Drilling machine. We are also ready to take machineries according to job requirement of industry if the particular industry providing us support and good future prospective. Workforce information: The very important part of our organization is set up and teamwork with unity, so appreciable output will be achieved by our workforce. Our team has good experience and working spirit for achieving perfection of work. Our workforce consists of skilled experienced workers. Work experience and products: Our organization is standing in the job work field for the last 5 years. We have lot of experience...
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...1 INTRODUCTION People have been thinking about artificial intelligence since before the 1950's. It was in that time that Alan Turing proposed the “Turing Test”. Which measures how well a computer can think by having an interrogator ask it and a human questions. If the interrogator cannot determine which is human and which is machine then the machine has passed the Turing test.[1] Its been 15 Years since Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. And since then chess computers have continued to improve dominate. Most notably Deep Fritz the desktop chess program beating Vladimir Kramnik.[2] Just 2 years ago IBM developed “Watson” a computer that played Jeopardy and beat former winner Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.[3] With A.I. Improving the question of how intelligent machines should be used to interact with humans becomes more and more relevant. In what ways can A.I. be used to interact with people and what moral implications exist? 2 A.I. IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR Intelligent machines are already being used by many private companies. These are in the forms of autopilot, data mining, facial recognition, etc. Those are not form of A.I. that humans interact with. There some modern uses of A.I. Humans interact with such as automated systems and there will be more as technologies develop. Something else that will come along with the development of artificial intelligence is robots as domestic helpers. And both of these will bring with them many ethical questions to...
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...Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg for your attention. You will want to hear what I say, as it concerns your freedoms. First of all, I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.... The aeroplane and the internet have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Eventually, my voice will reach millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can...
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...Amador Alan Castaneda MG 354 20th September 2015 Unit #5 Currently a company by the name of MooBella has created an ice cream machine that serves 4.25 ounce of your own favorite ice cream. The machine can also has two different types of ice cream one being premium and the other being light. It can also add 3 mix ins and has 12 different flavors of ice cream to choose from. MooBella has developed this great and new innovation. The machine is completely computerized. This ice cream machine is able to serve a cup full of ice cream in 40 seconds (Longenecker, Petty, Palich, Hoy, 2012, p. 470) . Currently MooBella wants to place these ice cream machines through out the United States but wants to know the best locations to put it at. If I were to say where the best locations are at I would say Anywhere in the Southwest, Southeast, Midwest, South, West Coast, and anywhere, where there is a huge event such as carnivals, concerts, and etc. The reason why I would say those particular geographical areas is because; in these areas there are typically the hottest when it comes to the summer. As we all know everyone loves to have an ice cool treat in the summer heat. To be more specific I would put it near a large body of water. In the west coast, I would put it on the busiest part on almost all beaches where there high areas of traffic. By doing this you put it in an area where everyone has probably been in the sun for the past 2 hours at least and would probably want a nice cold...
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...within the time. Methods : This function is concerned with the analysis of all methods of manufacturing and selecting the best appropriate method according to the given set of circumstances and facilities. Machines and Equipments: It is important that methods of manufacturing should to be related to the available production facilities coupled with a detail study of equipment replacement policy. This function is concerned with the detailed analysis of the production facilities, maintenance procedures and equipment policy. Routing: It refers to the flow of sequence of operation and processes to be followed in producing a particular finish product. It determines manufacturing operation and their sequence. Estimating: This function is concerned with estimation of operations time. The operation time can be worked Out once the overall method and sequence of operation is fixed and process sheet for each operation is available. Loading & Scheduling: It is important that machine should be loaded according to their capabilities performance the given and according to the capacity. It is concerned with preparation of machine loads and fixation of starting and completion dates for a particular operation. Dispatching: It means the assignment of work to different machines or work places which involve authorities to start of production activities in order of their priority as determined by scheduling. Expediting: It is also called Follow Up or Progress. Follow up which regulates...
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...M-TRONICS was founded during the consolidation of small local machine shops in the early 1900s. From early 1900s to 1999, M-TRONICS has struggled and faced with many operating and personnel problems within its organization. One of the positive aspects of this company is EBIT Margin. According to the EBIT Ratio, M-TRONICS has done very well in the last decade (90-99). At present it has a bright future. M-TRONICS has to consider every alternative they have in order to make sure that their organization is able to continue with its growth strategy. . The alternative that is mentioned below for M-TRONICS will allow them to solve the issues that are being restricted in the organization's growth strategy. After analyzing the main issues and the internal and external factors, the best alternative for M-TRONICS is to realign the organization so they can think closely about on one strategy and one focus. This case analysis will recognize the issues that are being faced by M-TRONICS, an analysis of the external and internal factors, and to provide the most feasible solution for the organization. Key Issues M-TRONICS must evaluate the different options they have that would allow their company to grow within their competitive industries. The key issues and questions that needs to be addressed in this case analysis are: 1. Should the Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries be a key part of M-TRONICS' growth strategy? The Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries at M-TRONICS is causing a money drain as large amount...
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