...Class: Principles of Supervision Instructor: Mike Ross Student: Supervision project 1 September 24th, 2011 Job Requirements for Automation Technology Supervision * Should have sufficient knowledge in logic based programming. * Needs to work well in team situations while giving good advice to other programmers, and assembly personnel. * Must be very proficient in Microsoft office tools, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. * Must be able to travel to customers locations. * Needs to assist workers in trouble shooting conditions of new technologies. * Must have high ethical standards, and must transfer those standards on to his/her subordinates. * Must be able to analyze production data to determine if goals are being met. * Continuous improvement is needed in the automation industry, plans and goals must be constantly adjusted to account for this. * Must be able to follow and fall within a budget. She/he must also come up with a fair price when creating a budget for a project. * She/he must have Entrepreneurial tendencies, and must be able to help in developing new technology along with help from other engineers. * Must be able to form efficient and productive teams when planning a project. * Sales skills are required when dealing with customers. * She/he must be able to delegate work out to their subordinates when things in the shop start to become busy. * Must be able to determine when more help is needed in the...
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...How Technology and Automation Affect Employment, the Economy, and You By Cody Ferenchak March 16th 2015 Automation is definitely a topic of concern in almost all of today’s industries. Especially for those in the service industry. Automation is making the processes used in the product and service industry less labor intensive and more productive. Over the last three decades manufacturing companies in the industrialized world have seen what great change automation is bringing to the world in terms of production. Assembly lines in the automotive industry are faster than ever. Electronics such as the iPhone are being constructed in just minutes due to hands of automated robotics. Upgrading to automated technology is becoming more and more accepted. Companies are spending much time and resources on implementing the use of automated labor to cope with the increasing competition from non-industrialized countries whose production costs are much lower. Where there were once hundreds of thousand of laborers filling factories assembling the everyday technological, textile, and household products we use today; are now machines that require no hourly wage, only monthly to sometimes yearly maintenance, up-keep and energy costs. The world of industry we are currently living in has changed. From labor-intensive production, to capital-intensive automation. Not only are we focusing on the tangible side of production, also the many intangible service industries are experiencing change. There...
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...AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY 1 WHAT IS AUTOMATION? • Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. • The correct incentive for applying automation is to increase productivity, and/or quality beyond that possible with current human labor levels so as to realize economies of scale, and/or realize predictable quality levels. 2 AUTOMATION • In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements while increasing load capacity, speed, and repeatability. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience. 3 ADVANTAGES OF AUTOMATION • Increased throughput or productivity. • Improved quality or increased predictability of quality. • Improved robustness (consistency), of processes or product. • Increased consistency of output. • Reduced direct human labor costs and expenses. 4 METHODS WHERE AUTOMATION MAY BE IMPLEMENTED TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY, QUALITY OR ROBUSTNESS • Install automation in operations to reduce cycle time. • Install automation where a high degree of accuracy is required. • Replacing human operators in tasks that involve hard physical or monotonous work. • Replacing humans in tasks...
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...of computers to control a particular process in order to increase reliability and efficiency, often through the replacement of employees. For a manufacturer, this could entail using robotic assembly lines to manufacture a product. Automation is the use of control systems (such as numerical control, programmable logic control, and other industrial control systems), in concern with other applications of information technology (such as computer-aided technologies [CAD, CAM], to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly reduces the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Processes and systems can also be automated. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and in daily experience. Engineers strive to combine automated devices with mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems for a rapidly expanding range of applications and human activities. Many roles for humans in industrial processes presently lie beyond the scope of automation. Human-level pattern recognition, language recognition, and language production ability are well beyond the capabilities of modern mechanical and computer systems. Tasks requiring subjective assessment or synthesis of complex sensory...
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...Pessimism in the changes of American Workforce: Reason? Considering how long the humanity has been in existence, Finding Jobs is a extremely difficult concept. There are many arguments about how to find and keep a job in today’s world and ways to make it more practical. In “The Untouchables”, author Thomas L.Friedman discusses how the American fungible and non-fungible jobs are affected by the Globalization. In Hudson Institute’s article “Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century”, their analysts show their opinions about the current trend of jobs in the near future and envision it in the next twenty-plus years. In both articles the authors discuss the topics of why the American workers has reasons for both optimism and pessimism regarding to the changes in the workforces. Firstly, both authors discuss how the Globalization affects to the workforce market. In Friedman’s article, he advised his daughter to finish her homework beacause people in China and India are starving for these jobs. His advice is the another way to say that Globalization affected to the fungible jobs, in the flat world, people who has the fungible jobs will be automated easily. Hudson Institute’s Analyst Richard W.Judy said that in the Global economy, Automation will continue to displace low-skilled or unskilled workers in America’s Manufacturing firms and offices. He said the new jobs will also be safer, more stimulating, and better paid than the one they replace and it will demand the brains rather than...
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...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOeWylSMfM 1) List the business processes displayed in the video: _ The identification of the package that follows a very standardized process. . _Secondly the way packages are handled on the conveyor belts is also very repetitive. _Last the shipping process: packages are transferred to airports. 2)Lists the types of information systems listed in the video. The types of information systems shown in the video are the transaction processing system and office automation systems. Indeed the transaction processing system is highlighted by the billing systems to send invoices to customers automated on the conveyor belt with the scanners. The office automation system allowed to improve greatly the productivity thanks to technology .Knowledge management system seems also efficient since the employees filmed knew very well their jobs and the functioning of the factory and the organization of FedEx. 3)Why is fedEx an entreprise system? FedEx is an entreprise system. It offers high quality of service, dealing with large volumes of data and is capable of supporting some large organization. The amount of packages handled is indeed significant. The sorting center is a technology platform that enables organizations to integrate and coordinate their business processes. There is no information fragmentation since the succession of business processes is very clear (see question 1). 4)How important is technology to FedEx business processes? Technology...
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...Three Automation Types Quantity Quantity A. Fixed Automation A system in which the sequence of processing (or assembly) operations is fixed by the equipment configuration. The operations in the sequence are usually simple. lt is the integration and coordination of many such operations into one piece of equipment that makes the system complex. Typical features: * Suited to high production quantities * High initial investment for custom-engineered equipment * High production rates * Relatively inflexible in accommodating product variety The economic justification for fixed automation is found in products with very high demand rates and volumes. The high initial cost of the equipment can be spread over a very large number of units, thus making the unit cost attractive compared to alternative methods of production. Examples of fixed automation include mechanized assembly lines (starting around 1913 - the product moved along mechanized conveyors, but the workstations along the line were manually operated) and machining transfer lines (beginning around 1924). B. Programmable Automation The production equipment is designed with the capability to change the sequence of operations through reprogramming to accommodate different product configurations. The operation sequence is controlled by a program, which is a set of instructions coded so that the system can read and interpret them. New programs can be...
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...Automation Vs Mechanization ESL 6150 Noble Reddy Kotla Wilmington University February 25, 2015 Abstract Automation and Mechanization are often confused because mechanization saves human power, automation saves human judgement. Automation is another form of human thinking which has replaced human thinking by computers and other machines. Automation has bought many changes to the world it has created many jobs for skilled workers. Mechanization is nothing but replacement of human activities with the machines. Automation plays a vital role in today’s generation it has reduced the manual labor work. Mechanization is referred to as human aid and automation is referred as human controlling. Automation and mechanization have bought drastic changes to society when they have come to existence. The existence of automation and mechanization has got up the second industrial revolution which has created a lot of sociological problems. Automation refers to the replacement of human muscle work. Eventually, Machine created vast difference comparing to man from the times. Since the Industrial revolution started from year 1700, demand for cotton was high but manual power didn’t reach to its level making dull business in the service sector but after inventing machine in industrial sector there was rose of production. Automation is using automatic machines which are processed by software programs and mechanization is manual power used for controlling machines. Most of industries use automated...
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...Checklists in the textbook were used in the decision-making process. Projects Problem I propose to do my research paper on how Information Technology systems and Automation impacts employment. Sub Problem None Hypothesis My hypothesis is that information technology has a negative impact on the employment and unemployment rate especially in blue collar occupations. Importance of the Study The importance of the study is to identify how Information Technology systems and automations cause the loss of jobs in businesses across the world. Text Checklist The checklists in the textbook were used in the decision-making process of my paper. Delimitations 1. The researcher is a Company Commander as well as a full-time student at Webster University. 2. The researcher only has 8 weeks to prepare the report and present its findings. 3. The researcher is limited to secondary research only. 4. The researcher is not an expert in this topic Key Definitions of Terms of Premise Automation – is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching in telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships or aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention. Information Technology (IT) – is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business...
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...Automation was a word first used in the automobile industry of the 1940's to describe the increase use of automatic controls and devices with in the production line. Although not introduced formally until the 1940's, automation wasn't something new. It was the culmination of mans scientific achievements, bringing into light a new way of working with the world. Automation began to be more of a topic starting in the industrial revolution. With the increase of the world population new ways were needed to help produce more food and consumer goods in an ever more optimized way. The great minds at the time quickly began developing methods and technology that would decrease the use of in labor and increase production along with quality. This was beginning of mass...
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...INTROUCTION: Castle’s Family Restaurant is a rather small chain of family owned restaurants located in northern California which employs between 300-340 employees. Most of the employees work part time, and only about 40 percent work full time. Mr. Jay Morgan acts as the operations manager as well as HR manager, which requires him to travel to each location in order to take care of the recruiting, hiring, and also answer any questions that employees may have, and other responsibilities that are required for every day operations of each restaurant like counting money, bank deposits, reviewing financial transactions, monitor budget (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). He is also responsible for payroll, for which he uses Excel spreadsheet combined with a computer application to print the payroll checks for employees. Mr. Morgan is in need to reduce his travel time and costs, be more efficient in his HR and payroll tasks, as well as having more time for his operations manager tasks. IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS: From this information, I could identify various problems that could be alleviated by they use of an HRIS program. The goal is to reduce or eliminate the need of use of papers like employees’ manuals, being able to retain employees, maintain former, current, and potential employees information within reach and safe, training employees, be able to manage schedules more efficiently as it changes each week for everyone, hiring, keep payroll and benefits up to date, having records of...
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...Industrial Robots and Engineering systems Task 2 One Japanese manufacturer, by installing a flexible manufacturing system, has reduced the number of machines in one facility from 68 to 18, the number of employees from 215 to 12, space requirements from 103000 square feet to 30000 and processing time from 35 days to a 1.5 days. “Ford has poured $4,400,000 into overhauling its Torrence Avenue plant in Chicago, giving it flexible manufacturing capability. This will allow the factory to add new models in as little as two weeks instead of two months or longer. The flexible manufacturing systems used in five of Ford Motor Company's plants will yield a $2.5 billion savings. By the year 2010, Ford will have converted 80 percent of its plants to flexible manufacturing.” (www.ford-motorcompany.com) Looking at local FMS systems, we have Nissan in Sunderland and Greggs in Longbenton. Both these companies have fantastic FMS systems, with virtually no human input, loading- manufacture-unloading is all completed by FMS, this removes the need for human input, which greatly improves quality and output. There are more benefits to FMS, using humans for repetitive work can be dangerous for the body, fatigue is a large part in human operation and if done for long periods of time (i.e. a 10-20 years of work) the human body begins to shut down, creating problems such as arthritis and repetitive strain injury. Industrial Robots and Engineering systems Task 2 One Japanese manufacturer...
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...get in their cars and waste gas to drive to the business venue. They can just access the business web page, purchase away and have it delivered to them. In some cases customers have to pay for shipping but it becomes one less expense for the business. Because of this some companies are able to offer lower internet sales prices. Since the cost of the product is lower and the company may incur less to negligible selling expenses, they are able to offer lower prices to compete in the market. E-business affects prices through labor as well. Electronic units are replacing other business practices. For example companies like AT&T have let go of some of their customer service representatives and replaced the jobs with an automated system. Many functions are being replaced by automation. Because of it’s increasing pervasiveness, e-business may be...
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...CurriculumVitae Instrumentation Engineer Jeevanand Subramaniam Mob: +91 9725066151 Email: jeeva21289@gmail.com Objective Instrumentation Engineer with total experience of 2.9 years+ in Refining and Petrochemical sector seeking a challenging position in an organization which can provide constructive and innovative ambiance to implement acquired technical knowledge as well as managerial skills to establish myself as an asset to the organization in the field of Automation, Process Instrumentation. Professional Summary • Engineering graduate in Instrumentation working at Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit of World’s Largest Grassroot Refinery, Reliance Jamnagar as Maintenance Engineer, Instrumentation. • Versatile, accomplished engineering management professional with expertise managing maintenance operations in a wide range of Instrumentation Systems and Equipment • Applies continuous improvement principles to increase process and maintenance efficiency. Exhibits a strong and firm approach to sustaining and encouraging safe work environments Career Accomplishments Organization – Reliance Industries Limited, Refinery Division, Jamnagar • Working as a team member for implementation and monitoring of Process Safety Management elements in HMU. • Involved in routine maintenance activities, commissioning and development co-ordination of instruments and control systems in Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit (Oil & Gas Refinery). • Configuring...
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...hard-nosed approach to Motorola Penang’s viability and business model. She saw technology as a two-sided coin that would eliminate low-skill jobs at the same time that it brought new opportunities. She knew that other countries had lower labor costs. She was committed to rapidly moving Motorola Penang to produce more complex systems products, creating an increased demand for technicians and engineers and potentially less demand for unskilled operators. She had never had to do a lay-off, and she was worried about lower- skilled operators’ ability to adjust to the new reality—she feared that in many cases they only knew how to do one thing and that they might not survive unless they learn to do other things. In December 1993, as part of a management retreat for the top 40 Motorola Penang managers, Ko addressed the future vision for the facility. She tried to engage and get the input of the 40 by asking them to envision the factory in the year 2000 and then identify what needed to be done then, in 1994 to move closer to that vision. Her senior HR leader pressed her to share her vision. She pressed back once again and said she wanted to hear from them first. She finally relented. Today we have nearly 3,000 employees but in six years, I believe that we will need only 1,500 people to produce over three times the sales turnover. Now we have islands of automation, but in six years I envision a factory that is integrated and automated from front to back—a lights out factory. Rather than simply...
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