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Machines and the Manufacturing Environment
Machines and the Manufacturing Environment
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The textile industry survived labor resistance to mechanization largely because the lower prices that could be charged for products produced by machine generated more business and an attendant need for more labor. More widely felt was the innovation of interchangeable parts in the mid-l8OOs; which in the United States gave rise to the factory system.
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Although software development in the information industry, with its 20 percent annual increase in employment, might seem a promising destination for displaced production workers, job retraining is complicated by an up to 20 percent illiteracy rate among workers in some U.S. auto plants.
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As the special-purpose robots that displaced unskilled production workers in heavy and dirty work are joined by flexible robots designed to accommodate production of greater varieties of products in smaller quantities, the requisite skill levels demanded of manufacturing's human work force will be pushed still higher. Robots are no longer considered special equipment, but rather advanced forms of automated machinery.
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