Tag: Technical

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

With more factory jobs now demanding education, technical know-how or specialized skills, many US plants are struggling to fill positions. (Aug. 15)

Media: Associated Press

NORWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."But it’s all nostalgia.Mays’ last day at 3M was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided […]

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."

But it’s all nostalgia.?

Mays’ last day at 3M was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided to close the plant that made bandages, knee braces and other health care supplies and move work to its plant in Mexico.At 62, Mays is unemployed and wants to […]

Revolutionise training to cope with work revolution

Revolutionise training to cope with work revolution

START coding next year – that is the ambitious plan the Employees Provident Fund has in reskilling its staff members to prepare them for the rapidly changing work environment.

“Rather than wait for current changes to overtake us, we are retraining them to brace for the impact of technological disruptions on the world of work,” said EPF deputy chief executive officer of strategy division, Tunku Alizakri Alias.

And this will not be EPF’s first proactive measure in navigating the disruptive forces: in 2014, it launched its Retirement Advisory Services (RAS) to help members manage their retirement savings.While this initiative was a […]

Governing magazine asks if automation anxiety is overhyped. It depends. Educated workers will fare better.

We’ve written about growing concerns that technology – robots – will transform the workplace. A story in today’s Seattle Times looks at Amazon’s use of robots .

Governing magazine examines the issue, reporting that t he trend and the job risk is rea l, but will play out differently across regions and industries. To estimate the potential effects of automation in those areas, Governing utilized definitions in a University of Oxford study assessing the automatability of individual occupations, then compared them with the Department of Labor’s most recent occupational employment estimates for the 100 largest U.S. metro areas. About 65 […]

It’s a tough economy for workers without a bachelor’s degree. But it’s better in Minnesota than in a lot of other states.

It’s a tough economy for workers without a bachelor’s degree. But it’s better in Minnesota than in a lot of other states.

Minnesota’s manufacturing sector is more focused on durable goods (goods that last for more than three years) which tend to be more expensive to manufacture and transport than nondurable goods. The 2016 election brought a renewed national focus on the plight of the blue collar worker in the modern American economy. With the bulk of growth in well-paying jobs happening in more skilled sectors, where is the worker without a four-year degree to go to find work?

Minnesota, for one, according to a new report from researchers at Georgetown University’s Center On Education and the Workforce , which ranked Minnesota […]

How to make world class in India

How to make world class in India

The manufacturing sector in India is expected to contribute 25% of GDP by 2020 and reach trillion by 2025. Human mind has always been stimulated by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). In today’s age, what is needed is not the denial of their existence and relevance, but the need to acknowledge the harmony. The manufacturing sector in India is expected to contribute 25% of GDP by 2020 and reach $1 trillion by 2025. It will demand higher productivity, better efficiency, reliability, perfection, uniformity, flexibility, customised solutions and, above all, matching global standards—directly associated with choosing the right technology, i.e. […]

Will technology cause society to collapse in 30 years? This former Facebook exec says yes

Will technology cause society to collapse in 30 years? This former Facebook exec says yes

Antonio García Martinez issued warnings about the potential dangers of automation and AIBBC iPlayer/BBC With smartphones in our hands and self-driving cars sitting in our driveways, the human race will spiral into revolt, despair and conflict as artificial intelligence (AI) and robot technology completely destroy the job markets. These are the predictions ofa former Silicon Valley executive.

Antonio García Martinez, a former product manager at social giant Facebook, left his position in 2015 and now lives in a remote part of the US as a self-described recluse. He traded in his computers for a tepee, a compost toilet and some […]

Filling jobs toughest task for Tennessee manufacturers

Filling jobs toughest task for Tennessee manufacturers

Denise Rice, director of Cleveland operations and development… With one of every four factory workers retiring in the next decade, Tennessee manufacturers say their biggest worry is getting enough qualified workers for the future for increasingly technology-based factories, even with an average manufacturing wage in the state of $66,000.

Despite the labor challenge, however, manufacturers are more optimistic since Donald Trump was elected president and the state revamped its tax system this year.

Among major manufacturers in the Volunteer state surveyed by the Tennessee Manufacturers Association earlier this year, workforce challenges were identified as their biggest concern, ahead of concerns over […]

The Crisis of World Automation

The Crisis of World Automation

Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

“Money is an amazing, device without which modern civilization could not function but its introduction and development as a debt-credit accountancy system in the context of an increasingly labor-displacing, intensive capital producing system, involves a number of fundamental issues of which we must become aware of and for which we must compensate through a new economic orthodoxy. Keynesianism is dead. Let us actively bury it and move on, rather than let the corpse rot and its disease destroy the natural creative resourcefulness of nations”.

Wallace Klink, Social Credit Archivist. Senior fellow […]

What you should know about AI

What you should know about AI

Artificial intelligence seems to be nearly everywhere these days, yet most people have little understanding of AI technology, its capabilities and its limitations.

Despite evocative names like “artificial intelligence,” “machine learning” and “neural networks,” such technologies have little to do with human thought or intelligence. Rather, they are alternative ways of programming computers, using vast amounts of data to train computers to perform a task. The power of these methods is that they are increasingly proving useful for tasks that have been challenging for conventional software development approaches.

The commercial use of AI had a bit of a false start nearly […]