robots save and create jobs jeff burnstein president association for advancing automation
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Robots Save and Create Jobs
Jeff BurnsteinPresident
Association for Advancing Automation
The Real Threat to Jobs
• The inability to remain globally competitive
• Low productivity, poor quality, high costs• Failure to respond quickly to changing
customer demands
Robots Help Keep Companies Globally Competitive
• Improved productivity and quality• Lower overall costs• Faster response time• Safer, higher paying jobs
Shuttered Factories Destroy Communities
• Lower tax revenues• Job losses outside the factory• Abandoned buildings and increased crime• Poorer schools and declining real estate
values
Competing For Manufacturing Jobs
• US is competing with China to be the biggest manufacturer in the world.
• Manufacturing generates more associated jobs than any other sector.
• Every new job in manufacturing is generating 1.3 jobs in support functions.
• 94% of all manufacturing jobs are in small and medium sized companies.
US Manufacturing Dominated by Small and Medium Sized Companies
Challenges Small and Medium Sized Companies Face
• Cost
• Setup time and maintenance
• Flexibility and multi-tasking
Automate, Emigrate or Evaporate
• An operating factory with fewer employees is better than one with none
• Sending jobs overseas is not the panacea many companies expected
• Automating often allows companies to transform their business
Where Robot Use Rises, Unemployment Usually Falls
About 10 Million Jobs Created Directlyby Robotics through 2011
About 6 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost InUS – Are Robots Really The Culprit?
Potential New Jobs Due toRobotics 2012 - 2016
New Applications
• Laboratory automation
• Composite manufacturing
• Hospital logistics
• Agile assembly
• Package handling in logistics
Common Sense Says that the Naysayers are Wrong
• Innovation has always led to growth and more jobs
• Robots are just better tools, not our masters
• We can’t even imagine the new products and industries that improved automation will help create
Suggested reading:www.brookings.edu/experts/winships
Jeff BurnsteinPresidentAssociation for Advancing Automation900 Victors WaySuite 140Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 USA
Phone: 734-994-6088Email: [email protected]