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Outline for Project

Jiaqi Wang

Professor Hood

MGMT 1001

October 8, 2016

Robots in Manufacturing

Introduction: Nowadays, the robots become more and more popular entire the world both in normal daily life or military, for instance, the dancing robots in Chinese Beer festival (Resource 1) and US Military’s (Resource 2). Robots even become a part of human being’s life…………… What about the robots in manufacturing? Does it really absolutely good for people or bad? Here are the advantages and Disadvantages for the robots in Manufacturing.

Advantage 1: Make life in manufacturing easier in two ways. New paradigms in industrial robotics no longer require physical separation between robotic manipulators and humans. (Resource 5) Also Maximum the productivity and minimum the labor cost, all the business need is an investment on robots in advanced.

Advantage 2: Keep Manufacturing in USA. By now, many repetitive motions in U.S. manufacturing have been pushed off to countries with lower labor costs. Using robots to complete those operations in the U.S. keeps manufacturers here. (Resource 4)

Transit: However, with more and more robots instead of people, they are great risk result in a net loss of labor. (Resource 6*)

Disadvantage 1: Face the problem of losing labor. (Resource 6*)

Disadvantage 2: Not safe enough. Example: The degree of automation in carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) manufacturing is currently rather low. (Resource 3) A worker in a German Volkswagen Factory was crushed to death in 2015(Resource 7*)

Conclusion: Everything have two different faces, while it better for human’s life, meanwhile, it will have a deeper or higher risk on human’s life. Compare these pros and cons, not only for robots in manufacturing, but also can be used in our daily life, as well.

* Resources 6:

RobotWorx.com. "What are the advantages of an industrial Manufacturing robot?" RobotWorx.com, Oct 8. 2016.

Resources 7:

Seth Baum and Trevor White. "When Robots Kill" Political Science. Science.com, 23 July. 2015.