The era of mature robotics technology and the highly automated replacement of repetitive labor are not far away from us. However, media including the New York Times also worry that robots will cause a lot of human unemployment. In this regard, MIT's origins and manufacturing industry chain experience is rich. , Jim Lawton, who is currently working for the remanufacturing of RethinkRobotics, the manufacturer of automated production robots, disagrees.
At present, the manufacturing industry accounts for only 12% of the U.S. economy, but the U.S. President Barack Obama is paying considerable attention to the manufacturing industry. The reason is that past experience shows that manufacturing has a multiplier effect: the production value per U.S. dollar is generated in other sectors of the economy as a whole. The $1.33 benefit, and in terms of employment, every one manufacturing job can bring 1.5 to 3 related jobs, which is the main reason why Obama actively promotes the return of manufacturing.
But Jim Loton put forward a "reluctance to face the truth": According to "Forbes" statistics, there are currently 200,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States can not find people to do, and according to Diloitte estimates, to In 2025, the gap will increase to 2 million. The reason is very simple. The next generation of the United States does not want these jobs.
Automated production robots replace repetitive tasks
Not only the traditional labor-intensive manufacturing industry, but also the electronics industry, Jim Loton pointed out that the three shifts in the electronics factory are microscopic inspections of small chips. This is what the machine is good at, not what humans should do. In his work, he questioned that Americans wouldn’t want to do this kind of work, and they wouldn’t want their children and grandchildren to still do such work. Of course, he may ask the wrong person. If he asks Taiwanese people, it’s probably more. People rush to do it. However, whether you want to do it or not, the current manufacturing model cannot last forever.
Humans are responsible for creating value and reducing costs
Jabil, the world’s third-largest electronic contract manufacturing service provider (EMS), believes that the current manufacturing industry is using low-cost labor, and the mode of spreading the production chain around the world will change, and the manufacturing industry will need to increase the added value. Must be closer to the design and innovation center, must also be closer to the market, manufacturing and design center in the same place, in order to more accurately integrate the design concept and manufacturing process, the design center must be close to the market in order to immediately reflect the needs of the market, therefore, the future The factory will no longer be a very large-scale, boring, globally consistent product. It will be miniaturized, closer to consumers, and operated by local talent.
The United States is moving in this direction. For example, Obama promotes the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) and establishes many manufacturing innovation centers throughout the United States, such as the Institute of Digital Manufacturing and Innovation Design jointly organized by the University of Illinois and Chicago. (Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, DMDII), the U.S. federal government has invested 70 million U.S. dollars, and the private sector has invested 200 million U.S. dollars. It plans to bring U.S. manufacturing to the digital era.
To make such a manufacturing shift, it is necessary to pull the manufacturing center from the low-wage countries back to the United States, and to have a lower wage than the developing countries, the only way is to increase automation and let the machines do what the workers do. Jim Laughton asked the Americans to face the reality: repetitive work will only make humans numb. It is time to eliminate mechanical work instead of protecting the work. There used to be hundreds of them in the production chain. Class work is simply not suitable for training humans to refine these tasks.
Jim Loughton believes that the definition of work should be re-thought. Robots perform highly repetitive and low-skilled work. Humans play a role in creating value and reducing costs for consumers. They need cognitive skills and creativity, and product innovation. Competing value contributes to the work, which makes the manufacturing industry and the entire industrial ecosystem grow and thrive and contributes to the overall economy.
Although Jim Laughton’s view is directed at the United States, Taiwan also faces many similar industrial issues. Perhaps it is time for Taiwanese people to rethink the definition of work.
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