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Is It Possible For Automation To Impact The Job Sectors

Automation has managed to create quite a buzz in the recent times by dramatically impacting almost every aspect of our lives. With robots replacing laborers in manufacturing vehicles or systems of artificial intelligence (AI) driving cars on our behalf, this extensive concept is concerning almost all the individuals because it is simply killing the job sectors.

Which Industries are Affected the most by Automation?

According to the latest report, automation has the potential to replace factory workers, miners, travel agents and bank tellers. The truck and taxi drivers must also start worrying because the automated technology threatened 2.2 to […]

Factory workers need to worry about automation more than techies

Factory workers need to worry about automation more than techies

The trend of robots replacing workers is no more restricted to countries like Japan. It is accelerating across the globe in the field of manufacturing and production, taking away the livelihood of factory workers. NEW DELHI: Automation is emerging as a big threat to jobs. The information technology (IT) sector seems to be the worst-hit by automation. But a survey by TeamLease reveals automation is affecting the manufacturing and engineering sector the most.

Jobs in factories are the most vulnerable to automation than those in the IT companies because it’s easiest to automate manufacturing.

The trend of robots replacing workers is […]

It’s time to build skill sets for the future

It’s time to build skill sets for the future

The disruptions across the world are coming from mainly three technologies: Big Data, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. FILE PHOTO | NMG I travelled to Ottawa, Canada, last week to attend a workshop sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The workshop’s theme was ‘‘Digitization and the Future of Work: Building a development-oriented research agenda.’’

Some of the questions that the workshop sought to address included: How will the automation of work impact emerging countries? What are the sources of learning that can be relied upon to support future jobs? How can governments prepare their citizens to thrive […]

Jagler: Rockwell CEO cites 7 virtues of automation

Jagler: Rockwell CEO cites 7 virtues of automation

(Photo: Steve Jagler / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) During the nasty presidential election of 2016, the word “automation” was tossed around derisively with other words such as “China,” “Mexico” and “illegal immigrants” as scapegoats that were taking away American jobs.

Given all that hyperbole, when the word “automation” is half of your company’s name, you’d better be ready to defend the concept.

Blake Moret is up for the task.Moret is the chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation.Rockwell is the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information. Through its flagship Allen-Bradley and Rockwell Software product brands, the company’s mission is […]

Automation’s Destruction Of Jobs: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet…

Automation's Destruction Of Jobs: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet...

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Employers have no choice: it’s innovate/automate or die.

Automation–networked robotics, software and processes–has already had a major impact on jobs. As this chart from my colleague Gordon T. Long illustrates, the rise of Internet technologies is reflected in the steady, long-term decline of the labor force participation rate– the percentage of the populace that is actively in the labor market. The oft-repeated fantasy is that every new wave of technological innovation creates more jobs than it destroys. Not this time: the total number of full-time jobs has stagnated for […]

New Bells and Whistles in Manufacturing Ring up Near Record Output

New Bells and Whistles in Manufacturing Ring up Near Record Output

Ignore the drumbeat for the need to rescue the U.S. manufacturing sector. Manufacturing is not dead; far from it. Manufacturing has long buttressed the U.S. economy in myriad ways, and it seems poised to continue.

What’s changed about manufacturing is not output, but employment. It’s true, the industry has lost millions of jobs, but manufacturing output has surged at the same time and is approaching record levels, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

How does that happen? With thanks to automation, technology, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics. And yes, that […]

One Stat Shows America’s Shift From Manufacturing Cars To Manufacturing Nerds

Todd Fisher hugs an R2-D2 robot near an empty chair for his late sister, actress Carrie Fisher. [Photo: DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images] The U.S. automobile manufacturing industry has taken a backseat to Silicon Valley, as the top three tech companies had almost the same revenues in 2014 as the Detroit’s Big Three did in 1990, according to a McKinsey Global Institute report.

The American automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler — needed 1.2 million people to produce revenues of $250 million. In contrast, the biggest corporations in Silicon Valley, the colloquial term for the region and people within the tech […]

Robots are friends, not foes

Robots are friends, not foes

Popular movies like The Terminator have helped instill a certain level of fear that the introduction of robots into everyday life will lead to widespread unemployment and ultimately a planet-wide robot uprising that will spell the end of humanity as we know it.

In recent years, the complexity, range, and quantity of tasks that robots can execute is astounding, and already, different types of robotic automation are taking on new tasks in the workplace – from data entry to customer support. Naturally, there is fear that with the growing number of tasks that can be automated, there will soon be […]

As Amazon purchases Whole Foods, don’t fear for the cashier. Fear for the supermarket

As Amazon purchases Whole Foods, don’t fear for the cashier. Fear for the supermarket

When Amazon announced its plan to pay $13.7 billion for Whole Foods Market last week, pundits wondered what it meant for the workers at Whole Foods’ more than 450 store locations.

Whole Foods’ infamously high prices are partly the result of its highly human approach to groceries. The stores post experts in every department and offers human service at specialty counters.

Amazon’s brick-and-mortar retail ambitions, meanwhile, have been focused around a technology that eliminates the need to interact with human employees at all . Instead, customers take products off of shelves and walk out of the stores. Amazon’s technology keeps tabs […]

The robots are coming: here are some jobs that won’t exist in 10 years

The robots are coming: here are some jobs that won’t exist in 10 years

The World Economic Forum forecasts that 5.1 million jobs will be lost to machines between 2015 and 2020. Photo: Sunny Lee The tech industry has already already embedding cognitive (conscious mental activities such as human thinking, understanding, learning) AI into a variety of products. Photo: Alamy AI is now at the centre of a myriad of real world applications, from facial recognition software and cybersecurity to more futuristic technologies such as autonomous self-driving vehicles. Photo: AFP An engineer holds the head of Samantha, a sex doll packed with artificial intelligence providing her the capability to respond to different scenarios […]