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Robots Save and Create Jobs

Robots Save and Create Jobs. Jeff Burnstein President Association for Advancing Automation. The Real Threat to Jobs. The inability to remain globally competitive Low productivity, poor quality, high costs Failure to respond quickly to changing customer demands.

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Robots Save and Create Jobs

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  1. Robots Save and Create Jobs Jeff Burnstein President Association for Advancing Automation

  2. The Real Threat to Jobs • The inability to remain globally competitive • Low productivity, poor quality, high costs • Failure to respond quickly to changing customer demands

  3. Robots Help Keep Companies Globally Competitive • Improved productivity and quality • Lower overall costs • Faster response time • Safer, higher paying jobs

  4. Shuttered Factories Destroy Communities • Lower tax revenues • Job losses outside the factory • Abandoned buildings and increased crime • Poorer schools and declining real estate values

  5. Competing For Manufacturing Jobs • US is competing with China to be the biggest manufacturer in the world. • Manufacturing generates more associated jobs than any other sector. • Every new job in manufacturing is generating 1.3 jobs in support functions. • 94% of all manufacturing jobs are in small and medium sized companies.

  6. US Manufacturing Dominated by Small and Medium Sized Companies

  7. Challenges Small and Medium Sized Companies Face • Cost • Setup time and maintenance • Flexibility and multi-tasking

  8. Automate, Emigrate or Evaporate • An operating factory with fewer employees is better than one with none • Sending jobs overseas is not the panacea many companies expected • Automating often allows companies to transform their business

  9. Where Robot Use Rises, Unemployment Usually Falls

  10. About 10 Million Jobs Created Directlyby Robotics through 2011

  11. About 6 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost InUS – Are Robots Really The Culprit?

  12. Potential New Jobs Due toRobotics 2012 - 2016

  13. New Applications • Laboratory automation • Composite manufacturing • Hospital logistics • Agile assembly • Package handling in logistics

  14. Common Sense Says that the Naysayers are Wrong • Innovation has always led to growth and more jobs • Robots are just better tools, not our masters • We can’t even imagine the new products and industries that improved automation will help create Suggested reading: www.brookings.edu/experts/winships

  15. Jeff BurnsteinPresident Association for Advancing Automation 900 Victors WaySuite 140Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 USA Phone: 734-994-6088 Email: jburnstein@a3automate.org

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