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A Look Inside Automated Production Lines.

This is a great look at various automated production lines across several industries.  The future of work is all about automation.  Artificial intelligence will drive automation even further, and automate jobs that once thought only humans could do.

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Manufacturing and Lean Quotes

  • “Today, manufacturing is changing faster than ever before and the drivers for this include globalization, individualization, time to market and sustainability” ~Brian Holliday
  • “Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.”   ~Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System.
  • “Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month’s manual should be out of date.” ~Taiichi Ohno
  • “Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America’s political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.” ~Malcolm Turnbull
  • “Artificial intelligence will change supply chain more in the next 10 years than all the changes in the last 50 years.  If you aren’t working on automation you could be automated so choose wisely.” ~Dave Waters  
  • “Learning is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.” ~W. Edwards Deming
  • “Technologies that are emerging today will soon be shaping the world tomorrow and well into the future – with impacts to economies and to society at large. Now that we are well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s critical that we discuss and ensure that humanity is served by these new innovations so that we can continue to prosper.” ~Mariette DiChristina
Automated Production Lines
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