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    "Machine substitution" triggers employment challenges, where is the way forward for front-line workers?

    • Last Update: 2021-09-25
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    【Hot attention from Chemical Machinery Equipment Network ] At present, the accelerated development of artificial intelligence within the scope of * has attracted great attention from all countries.
    Whether it is simple mechanical actions or complex perception tasks, the strength of artificial intelligence is remarkable.
    Driven by artificial intelligence technology, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry has set off a wave of "machine substitution", and its social impact has attracted widespread attention.

     
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    When "machine substitution" is in progress
     

    With the development of China's economy, the improvement of residents' income level and the transformation of demographic structure, the demographic dividend has gradually weakened, and the rise of labor costs has promoted the improvement of the automation level of my country's manufacturing industry; in addition, modern manufacturing has more and more requirements for product consistency and accuracy.
    High, making the process of replacing humans by machines continue to accelerate.

     

    In recent years, driven by policies and markets, many domestic manufacturing companies are actively deploying robots in various production links to achieve rapid replacement of production lines.
    The instrument and meter manufacturing industry is no exception.
    For example, a large number of companies such as Wasion Group, Chuanyi Co.
    , Ltd.
    , Weixing Intelligent, Fujian Hongrun Precision Instrument, etc.
    have improved quality and efficiency through "machine substitution".

     
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      From labor-intensive "reincarnation" to intelligent manufacturing, "machine substitution" in manufacturing has become an irreversible trend.
    "Machine substitution" is not only the "progressive tense" but also the "future tense".
    This has directly impacted the labor market and brought a new wave of employment anxiety.

     

      The McKinsey* Research Institute report shows that it is estimated that by 2055, automation and artificial intelligence will replace *49% of paid jobs, of which India and China may be affected*.
    The McKinsey* Research Institute predicts that China has 51% of jobs with automation potential, which will have an impact on the equivalent of 394 million full-time man-hours.

     

      "Machine substitution" creates new jobs
     

      Since the beginning of modern economic growth, people have periodically suffered intense panic of being replaced by machines.
    For hundreds of years, this kind of worry has always proved to be a false alarm—despite technological progress* over the years, there will always be new demands for human jobs, enough to avoid the emergence of a large number of *unemployed people.

     

      Past history has shown that technological innovation has increased the productivity of workers, created new products and markets, and further created new employment opportunities in the economy.
    Then, for artificial intelligence, the laws of history may repeat itself.
    From a long-term development perspective, artificial intelligence is creating more jobs by reducing costs, driving industrial scale expansion and structural upgrading.

     

      From the perspective of job skills, some of the jobs reduced by "machine substitution" are low-skilled jobs.
    These jobs also have many unwelcome characteristics, such as high labor intensity, poor working conditions, high risks, high repetitiveness, and poisonousness.
    Harmful and so on.
    Simple repetitive tasks will be replaced more frequently, and high-quality skilled jobs will be created in large numbers.

     

      In the process of intelligent upgrading of traditional industries, along with the application of a large number of intelligent projects, not only a large number of data scientists, algorithm engineers and other positions are required, but also because data processing links still require a large number of manual operations, data cleaning, data calibration, and data The demand for integration and other ordinary data processing personnel will also increase significantly.
    At the same time, after the automated production lines and robots are put into operation, the factory needs workers who match the automation.

     

      postscript:
     

      With the implementation of "Made in China 2025", the *manufacturing industry represented by robots is becoming the new engine for the next round of development of my country's manufacturing industry.
    The promotion of "machine substitution" is an irreversible trend.
    In this process, front-line workers in the manufacturing industry are either upgraded to advanced skilled workers who are adaptable to automation, or change jobs.
    Only in this way, they will not lose their jobs and be abandoned by the times.

     

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