Our article last month Industrial robots taking over the manufacturing world generated quite a lot of feedback and commentary, particularly on the future of jobs in Australia.
But are the concepts of manufacturing competitiveness, and future jobs growth, really at polar ends of the spectrum?
As sheet metal manufacturing specialists, we’re not equipped to answer this question nor take the lead on national policy. But as sheet metal manufacturing specialists, we know we have taken the steps within our business to ensure continued delivery of customer value in an increasingly global, competitive manufacturing environment – through substantial investment in automation. It’s about business survival and that means jobs.
The focus on Customer Value remains central to our ongoing competitiveness and has seen our continued progression to a highly automated, high technology sheet metal manufacturing business, enabling us to deliver significant customer benefits in terms of Quality, Design flexibility, Turnaround time, Production efficiency and Cost.
In short, our core focus is on delivering superior outcomes for our customers.
There are many economic and policy think tanks – and, not to mention, substantial Federal Government investment for Innovation platforms premised on addressing structural issues in the economy delivering Australia’s future prosperity.
At FORM2000, we are certainly supportive of such measures and initiatives to boost out national economy.
Some good articles addressing these issues, include:
https://blog.csiro.au/automation-wont-destroy-jobs-but-it-will-change-them-2/
https://blog.csiro.au/dont-be-alarmed-ai-wont-leave-half-the-world-unemployed/
http://theconversation.com/australia-must-prepare-for-massive-job-losses-due-to-automation-43321
And more about the Turnbull Government’s key Innovation platform: