Robots Replace Robots | MishTalk
Which will create jobs, just not in manufacturing. Nothing will bring the low quality jobs back to manufacturing. "Foxconn Electronics is automating production at its factories in China in three phases, aiming to fully automate entire factories eventually, according to general manager Dai Jia-peng for Foxconn’s Automation Technology Development Committee. In the first phase, Foxconn aims to set up individual automated work stations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is dangerous, Dai said. Entire production lines will be automated to decrease the number of robots used during the second phase, Dai noted. In the third phase, entire factories will be automated with only a minimal number of workers assigned for production, logistics, testing and inspection processes, Dai indicated. Foxconn has deployed more than 40,000 Foxbots, industrial robots developed and produced in house, at factories in China, Dai said. Foxconn can produce about 10,000 Foxbots a year. In addition to industrial robots, Foxconn is developing robots for use in medical care, Dai said. Although robotic technology keeps improving, industrial robots will not be able to completely replace workers because humans have the flexibility to quickly switch from one task to another, Dai noted." Full automation, or even near full automation, will kill the comparative Chinese wage benefit. Then the manufacturing will come home because the shipping costs will make China less desirable, as well as the associated problems with remote manufacturing, and manufacturing by foreign parties. This is already happening, it will begin to accelerate. On the other hand, a few lower cost labor provider nations will swoop in from the other side, and out bid China on manufacturing which is difficult to automate, China is in a difficult place, it needs to create an internal economy sufficient to support the country, but it has failed to do this. Good luck.
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