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Strategies & Market Trends : New US Economy Policy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Tang who wrote (152)	5/7/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Arthur Tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 435

The new economy and factory automation? Automated production and assembly lines have been with us since before the turn of the century. How come most businesses are still doing things manually and dependent on cheap labor? Quantity determines how much automation can be done. Tools and fixtures costs have to be effective. Now with computers and soft automation, any quantity production can be automated. Soft automation can use standard components to move parts around and program active devices to cut, weld, dispense, and package. It takes real time computers, software for standard components assembled to do any job you desired. Unfortunately, only a few companies are now in this business. Rockwell, Allen Bradley, etc. have started the standard components available for factory automation. It will take the next 10 years to organize the whole machine tool industry to enable American factories to buy parts and automate their factories. It has to be done, the sooner the better.