Manufacturing Trends: Automation in Overdrive – Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The buzz: Manufacturing. Manufacturers are pushing automated processes into overdrive to survive in the global marketplace. As this evolution spawns new jobs demanding specialized skills best performed by robots, will the factory workforce need humans? The experts speak. Mike Yost, MESA International: "Governmental initiatives, like Germany's 'Industry 4.0' and US National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, are shining a light on the importance of advanced technologies in manufacturing, but we're still a long way away from putting the pieces together correctly." Kimberly Knickle, IDC: "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy" (Marie Curie). Jeff Jackson, Deloitte: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" (Albert Einstein). Chuck Pharris, SAP: "The future of automation will be a shift from robots replacing humans in jobs to humans working beside robots." Join us for Manufacturing Trends: Automation in Overdrive – Part 2.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:13.2	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:17.2	The best run business is run SAP.
0:19.7	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
0:22.1	You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.
0:30.0	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
0:32.1	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:33.4	And if you want to run with the game changers, you're in the right place.
0:36.9	Today's part two of a topic we did on our recent series called BizBuzz with Game Changers
0:43.3	back in February this year, 2014.
0:46.3	So we're covering manufacturing trends.
0:49.0	Automation on Overdrive, Part 2.
0:51.1	Let's get started.
0:52.4	Question mark, people versus robots. People with robots.
0:56.2	Robots versus people. Got a lot to talk about. Manufacturers are pushing automated processes
1:02.4	into overdrive just to survive in the super competitive global marketplace. You know it's true.
1:08.7	You know if you're a manufacturer. If you're not a manufacturer,
1:11.6	listen up because you're going to appreciate them even more. And by the way, this system's evolution
1:16.6	is spawning new factory jobs, but not just your normal run-of-the-mill traditional jobs. These are
1:22.6	jobs that demand specialized skills. Guess what? They can best be performed often by robots.
1:29.5	So our big question today is, will the future factory workforce still have a place
1:34.1	for human beings?
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