Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robots makes sheet-metal parts for the F-16 fighter. The T-3 selects bits from a tool rack, drills a set of holes to a .005-in. tolerance and machines the perimeters of 250 types of parts. A man doing the same job can produce six parts per shift, with a 10% rejection rate. The robot makes 24 to 30 parts, with zero rejections. The machine costs over $60,000 and has saved $93,000 in its first year...
...present, that is what is happening, and it can continue as long as corporations do not make the shift to robots faster than the natural rate of worker attrition, which now runs as high as 15% in the metalworking plants that are ripe for robotization. (One reason why Japan has been able to shift so extensively to robots is that Japanese corporations have a tradition of caring for their employees for life.) But as the robots take over more and more jobs-and they can do the more pleasant and interesting tasks as well as the dull and dirty ones...
...freeze out his initiative. We often overlook the impact of robots on the jobs that remain. Today, if a worker assembling components has a daily quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half of a shift, leaving only 40 for a relatively unpressured second half. But when he is slotted between centrally programmed robots that dictate the pace, he becomes a mere cog in the machine. These things matter...
...next shift, the line struck again. This time, Voichick tallied at 3:52, assisted by Boone, a two-time All-Ivy second team member...
...line felt that if we did good that first line shift it would catch on," Olson said. "Instant Karma" wasn't finished. Just 30 seconds later, Watson scored again, from Murray and Olson. And two shifts later, Murray scored his fourth (on Olson's sixth assist of the season). Suddenly, it was 6-5. Suddenly every one of the 2000 students screaming "Go Gate" knew Harvard was going...