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Thursday, 26 March 2015

Humans Need Not Apply: Rise of Robot Factories Leading 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'


Humans Need Not Apply
Rise of Robot Factories Leading 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'

 


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel visiting the model shop floor.




Busy day? A million things to do? Well, here’s depressing news: you’ll probably mess up about 1,000 of them. That’s what the research shows, at least: for every million tasks a human performs, even the best of us inserts mistakes between 500 and 1,000 times. It might seem a lot, but think of the number of emails you send containing a typo, the number of dishes that make it to the drying rack with a fleck of food still on them, the gaffes when talking with colleagues, the mismatched socks you only spot at lunchtime.

None of these slip-ups is likely to prove very costly, whether in terms of time, money or reputation. But the stakes grow higher in certain environments: a pharmacist getting a dosage wrong can take a life; a trader with “fat fingers” can cost his employer millions. It was with this idea in mind, just over 25 years ago, that a team of engineers and scientists at Siemens began to rethink one particular shop floor. The factory in Amberg, a small town near Nuremberg in Germany, made controllers – the boxes stuffed with circuit boards and switches that act as brains for other factories. And it did a pretty good job of it, with customers from across countries and sectors, and a defects per million rate of 550.

But even that number felt too high, particularly given that a broken controller can quickly shut down a factory, costing its owners millions of euros per day in stopped production alone. So the team at Siemens began moving the factory towards greater automation, counting on computers to beat humans in the race for quality. In 1990, 25% of the shop floor was automated; today, it is 75%. And the defect rate has dropped sharply – to 11.5 per million. Output has increased 8.5 times while employee numbers and floor space have stayed steady.

Amberg has become something of a showcase for what automation can achieve; Angela Merkel visited in February and called it an example of Germany’s wealth of “ideas and well-educated workers”. But its real interest for managers, politicians and workers is what it can tell them about the future. The plant is Siemens’s testing ground for a huge development in automation, where factories act less as the setting for a series of sequential steps and more as networks – networks in which assembly lines communicate not just with one another or within the company, but with systems elsewhere and – this is key – with the very products being produced. An automobile bonnet rolls up to the paint machine and tells it, “I should be white”; the next one sends the message to paint it blue.

In Germany, the engineers and academics working to create this “fourth industrial revolution” call it Industrie 4.0; in the US it’s referred to as “the industrial internet”. General Electric describes it thus: “[It is] the tight integration of the physical and digital worlds . . . [enabling] companies to use sensors, software, machine-to-machine learning and other technologies to gather and analyse data from physical objects or other large data streams – and then use those analyses to manage operations.”

It is also, according to Volkmar Koch, a partner at the consultancy Strategy&, a chance for Europe to lead where in the past it has followed: whereas digitisation of the consumer world “is basically owned and shaped by US companies”, no country or region yet dominates the transformation of industry.

You might expect a world built on sensors, software and machines to be devoid of humans. But in Amberg, the 10,000-square-metre shop floor is populated by 1,020 workers over three shifts. And their labour looks relatively physical: a young man lying on his back inches his way under an elegant blue-and-grey machine, as you would under a car needing repair; a woman nearby bends over a circuit board wielding tweezers. Yet other members of staff peer at screens, never touching the products rolling down glassed-in assembly lines.


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Robot arms weld bodywork at the Porche factory in Leipzig, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty


“A digital future can frighten people,” says Günter Ziebell, production unit leader in Amberg. “But we complement automated tests with eye checks.” More to the point, this project has created demand for people with experience and creativity, who can improve the processes. So the management structure in Amberg has become very flat, allowing, for example, line workers to speak with the IT department directly rather than go through their bosses. Any employee can initiate a project that requires an investment of less than €10,000, and managers simply check every quarter that their teams are neither spending too much nor too little. Employees also earn bonuses when they suggest changes that are later implemented. The average employee earns an additional €1,000 per year this way, says Ziebell. He stresses the importance of schemes like this: “If a digital factory is being managed top-down, you wouldn’t get many advantages from it.”

But even if increasing automation hasn’t sapped jobs in Amberg, fast-growing efficiency means new plants might have been built to meet rising customer demand – and new positions to fill them – are now unnecessary. It is an issue that the Germans, at least, are attempting to address head-on, with plans under way to form a national-level working group for Industrie 4.0 that includes employee representatives as well as private businesses and industry bodies.

Dieter Wegener, Siemens’s coordinator for Industrie 4.0, argues that companies aren’t pushing these developments forward – consumers are. We want customised products, we want them now, and we want them made efficiently, whether to bring down prices or preserve natural resources. This isn’t possible without networked production processes. As Mr Wegener says, “This is coming from you and me.” He also argues that Germany is at least two years ahead of the industrial internet community in the US “but we appear as if we’re following the Americans. The Americans are better at marketing.”

Roman Friedrich, a Strategy& expert on digitisation, is more cautious: “By definition, these changes are happening with such speed that you might not stay dominant for long. There are pockets of excellence and we see shifts in who’s ahead every year.”

And still, there are serious challenges to overcome, beyond what all of this might mean for workers. Standardisation is one; it doesn’t do much good for your soda bottle to signal to a bottling machine if they don’t speak the same language. A survey by the consultancy Accenture found last year that a third of companies eager to embrace the industrial internet cited “consolidation of disparate data” as a grave concern. And that didn’t just mean data from along the supply chain, where different companies need to find similar standards, but also between departments in their own operations.

Security, inevitably, was another top worry. Technicians at Siemens’s headquarters in Munich have recently started trying to hack into the Amberg factory’s systems, as tests to protect against the real deal. To take full advantage of “smart factories”, every link in the supply chain must be secure – a huge challenge, and one with an inherent conundrum in that taking full advantage of “smart factories” also necessitates allowing a wide distribution of information; in Amberg, any employee can see the real-time data about each product on the assembly line. Companies must find a way to find a balance between transparency and security.

For Wegener, a third challenge is remembering the factors, such as efficiency, customisation and speed, that are driving the revolution (or evolution, as he prefers) – and making sure Big Data isn’t tapped simply for the sake of tapping Big Data. It has to add specific value to each operation. “There’s no benefit to making something smart,” he says, “without it making sense”



The Rise of Turing Robots Leads to a Fall in Wages

 

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A staff member stands next to robots at a Kuka Robotics plant in Shanghai on August 13, 2014.



Saturday, 15 March 2014

3D Printing Energy Global Network: Mission I’m possible - The Real Game Changer

3D Printing Energy Global Network  
Mission I’m possible: The Real Game Changer


What is it all about ?

3D Printing Energy Global Network :



Brief description of the creation of 3D Printing Energy Global Network:

The 3D Printing industry is undoubtedly the fastest growing futuristic industry right now which basically gives people in their homes the ability to create almost any item of personal value for themselves on a 3D printer that builds in layers and produces NO WASTE. Those household items can be of their own style and design too with a little bit of creative 3D Building computer knowledge: This is ideal for people who have their own vision or small eco-project of the future.

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Now imagine an ever growing  team of spiritually awakened inventors, scientists, engineers and enthusiasts getting together and adding the subject of free energy to the 3D Printing Design Files Portfolio: This is exactly what has happened and this group of brainstormers have grouped together to discuss the potentiality of adding more free energy based 3D printable projects to the station set up network to offer on an open source basis for others to replicate at home or in their own small project office.


Bringing Nikola Tesla back  into your own home :

Free Energy has been suppressed for well over 100 years however what the Global ruling elite ( Euro Royals, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Vatican/Jesuit Rulers in Switzerland) have not managed to suppress is the readily available information on the internet. The information to make a free energy vehicles and devices has been around for well over 80 years, it is this hidden information that is now becoming available, due to the vigilance in such networks, such as this.


Ancient technologies and energy.

The owners of all current energy companies are massive secret societies that the likes of John Lennon and President Kennedy spoke of  in the 60s and 70s; these controllers  have stealthily  been in corrupt control  of  every country in the world (with few exceptions) through a clever network of deceit  for 300 years, commonly know as the Cabal, Illuminati, Sabbatean mafia or Plain and simply The Banksters.

The real source of this global control not only  dates back even further to Roman Empirical days and even further back in ancient times, however the more research one embarks on, one finds that free energy technologies were available on earth and etched in stone going back more than 25,000 years.

Nikola Tesla should be a household name : WHO?

Do you not find it rather strange that All schools and colleges do not even mention The greatest modern day inventor of all times? For those who are still unsure about energy technology suppression can look up on Google or Youtube Nikola Tesla:

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Today, Worldwide Suppressed Energy Intelligence can be found in Cars that run on water and many free energy devices from  Philippines  through India into Europe and over to the Americas and Worldwide  the inventors of Generators (Magno/Electro) that run on the quantum sourcefield are widespread. Nowadays this technology  is  convertible on to the computer in 3D Format and can be made readily available for the 3D printing Energy Global Network Home Stations that are freshly setting up worldwide:

Update of the current new stations:

Mission (I’m Possible) Statement: Mission One

It is the intention of the 3D Printing Energy Global Network to reach more inventors in time and store their files in our open source database to be held on this site xi4.com . The more devices that can be converted into modern 3D computer software programs that can be 3D printed, the more will be  made readily available all files and folders from inventors of free energy related devices (ie: water, electric or magnetic) This will enable other people to Pioneer their own groups worldwide from their own homes where they can access these files and in addition become part of  an otherwise Thought of, complicated  industry:

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Our aim also is to provide concise instructions on building your own 3D Printer Station and technical support to get your own station set up and producing items for your Eco Village project or your own community. The vision in return of these groups who become a part of this open source network would be not only to provide and produce their own items for their own income and return,  also to give rise to providing  self replicating  3D Printers for others to pioneer likewise,  their own splinter stations within your local vicinity.


The Game Changer : Funding and Finance:

Whilst the modern day method of crowdsourcing is the preferred method of funding these days we seek like minded people who value this as THE GAME CHANGER so much so that they would like to ensure that this gets the best possible start by assisting in the funding of the database centre with a view of helping the set up process of visiting all new stations to maximise their potential. This of course costs money in the ‘auld paradigm’ and we seek a sponsor the ensure that this takes place : Currently we have set this up out of our own pocket and could do with an injection of financial assistance : To contribute in any way to this game changer please state your good  intentions in the contact form below:


Starting your own Station or Groups:

If you would like to form a New Group Network Station you will need people within your team that have attained basic knowledge in Mechanical/Electrical and 3D computer design and software. To request to join this network please fill in the form in the box at the foot of this article and state any relevant skills you may have. The minimum amount needed to form your own station will be approximately $800-$1000. For those with greater plans, a minimum of  $2000 for  more professional start up arrangements.

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Enthusiasts and Model makers are often multi skilled people who reach for the imagination when needed and are often very valuable to such a team set up as they have the patience needed to set up and build your 3D Printer kit which all helps you pioneer your own station set up  in terms of knowledge, maintenance and project device building operations.

What is the Rep Rap Community and how does it help us  with Station set ups: PART 1




Rep Rap is often a word that many people run from when it is mentioned and needs not be misunderstood, Invented in 2004 by Dr Adrian Bowyer in Bath University in UK as a community of inventors and scientists in all disciplines not unlike we are starting in 3D Printing Energy Global Stations Network, Their sole purpose was to create 3D printing technology that would end up replicating itself.



Dr Adrian Bowyer explains why RepRap ! He also explains The Rep Rap Project ( Replicating Rapid Prototyper)


‘Symbiotics in your own home’: Or a “Computer controlled Glu gun” with materials that you can even grow at home.

Mission I’M Possible: With Special guest Panelists : Rena Iliades : Alfred L Webre and Tony Kilvert
Click on show Logo below to take you straight to the show:
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From LightworkersXM @ http://xi4.com/2014/02/13/3d-printing-mission-im-possible/

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