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Robots Save and Create Jobs. Jeff Burnstein President 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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]