WORK GUIDE 3

WORK GUIDE N°3

Will robots take YOUR job?

·  Robots now perform roughly 10 percent of manufacturing tasks

·  Factory workers 'will be higher paid but there will be fewer of them'  

By REUTERS and MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The falling cost of industrial robots will allow manufacturers to use them to replace more factory workers over the next decade while lowering labor costs, according to new research.

Robots now perform roughly 10 percent of manufacturing tasks that can be done by machines, according to the Boston Consulting Group. 

The management consulting firm projected that to rise to about 25 percent of such 'automatable' tasks by 2025.

In turn, labor costs stand to drop by 16 percent on average globally over that time, according to the research.

The shift will mean an increasing demand for skilled workers who can operate the machines, said Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at Boston Consulting.

Factory workers 'will be higher paid but there will be fewer of them,' Sirkin said.

The research found a tipping point for installing robots: Companies tend to start thinking about replacing workers when the costs of owning and operating a system come at a 15 percent discount to employing a human counterpart.

For example, in the U.S. automotive industry, which is predicted to be one of the more aggressive adopters of robots, a spot-welding machine costs $8 an hour versus $25 an hour for a worker.

THE ROBOT ADVANTAGE

The research found a tipping point for installing robots: Companies tend to start thinking about replacing workers when the costs of owning and operating a system come at a 15 percent discount to employing a human counterpart.

In the U.S. automotive industry, a spot-welding machine costs $8 an hour versus $25 an hour for a worker.

The report says the changes will be concentrated in four areas: transportation equipment, including the automotive sector; computer and electronic products; electrical equipment and machinery.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1.       WHAT JOBS COULD DISAPPEAR?

2.       SHOULD WE FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? ARGUMENT YOUR ASNSWER.

3.       WHAT JOBS THE ROBOTS WILL NEVER REPLACE?

ANSWERS

1.       WHAT JOBS COULD DISAPPEAR?

I think the work can disappear are all having to do with the industrial part, of doing, even though the Robot is an important tool capable of performing activities that might well be made by people without forgetting that maybe the price would be increased in the case of salary allowance, compared to what it would cost to keep a Robot.

2.       SHOULD WE FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? ARGUMENT YOUR ASNSWER.

regarding whether to be afraid of artificial intelligence, we can say that depending on the area of training of each person, for example in my case I'm a nurse and lawyer believe almost not, however; those who are trained in engineering are more likely to be replaced by the surface intelligence Robot

3.       WHAT JOBS THE ROBOTS WILL NEVER REPLACE?

I consider that the Robot can never replace the jobs that have to think, they can not do, analyze, make decisions, we can not ignore that even the jobs that have to do with just making also require the work of thought and take decisions at any given time. up there can never reach humans, creating a thinking this is just a power of God Almighty.