Jobs in 2023: Luddites 1 – Robots 0

This is the kind of irony people generally like: a story turning totally differently as expected, in favor of the humble, the weak or the poor. The humble heroes here are the workers, who were told for years that they’ll become redundant as their routine jobs will be taken over by automation, artificial intelligence and …

Automation and loss of jobs: why keep sticking to the old paradigm?

Another article on the subject has been brought to my attention by one of my followers. It’s “A New Way To Understand Automation” published June 22, 2021 on the National Public Radio (NPR) website and signed by Greg Rosalsky. In essence the article is about “(../..) machines devouring jobs previously done by middle and low-income …

The success of a 4.0 transformation is strongly dependent on the initial conditions

The success of a 4.0 transformation in manufacturing (and industry at large) is particularly dependent on the initial conditions for its implementation. The “founding fathers” of Industry 4.0 and the organizations who help its implementation soon recognized the importance of a suitable “ground” as well as a number of prerequisites for a 4.0 transformation to …