There was an
article in the latest Discovery Magazine
about robotics taking over manufacturing.
There are great advances in robotics and the latest is programing robots
to teach themselves and to be able to communicate. This is a breakthrough that will allow
factory robots to work as a unit: detecting flaws in manufacturing and self-correcting.
At present,
about ten percent of manufacturing is robotics. As robotic programing advances, more and
more manufacturing jobs will be lost as factories become robotic.
It is a goal of most manufacturers to eventually
move to complete robotics: manufacturing
in the dark. Robots don’t take
breaks, they don’t work in shifts and they don’t require medical and pension
plans.
A robotics factory can run 24/7: non-stop manufacturing. The article proposed that by 2030 most factories will be ninety percent robotics.
Manufacturing
centers, like the mid-west, are going to have to move on. Manufacturing may return to the U.S. but
jobs are not coming back.
There was a
time when blacksmiths and wheelwrights realized that their skills were no
longer needed. The same now goes for
laid off factory workers. Their day and
their time is quickly passing.
It is difficult
for a man or woman who has worked for most of their lives in steel mills or
paper mills etc. to find themselves unemployed and unemployable.
Especially
now, with Republicans in charge, programs to assist the unemployed retrain or
just survive are on the chopping block.
It is ironic that the people who supported Trump are the ones that will suffer
the most by the Republican takeover.
the Ol’Buzzard
