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...Gerrit Nijland, a professor of industrial robotics at Berenschot Management Training Center in The Netherlands, has just concluded a study of the acceptance of the automatons in his country, where 70 firms currently use robots. He found that the most common form of sabotage was to slow down the machines by feeding them parts in the wrong order, with the hope that management would be disappointed in robot performance. In other cases, employees repaired the machines incorrectly, mislaid essential spare parts or put sand into the robots' lubricating oil. In one metal construction plant, production was reduced for more...
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