Today, we rarely hear the term “assembly line worker”.
Has it disappeared?
The fact is, under the development of the times, “assembly line workers” have also gone through a fateful iteration: from the “hot cakes” assembly line workers in the 1970s, to the “worthy of boasting” assembly line workers in the 1980s, and then to the “gradually ending” frontline workers in the 1990s. The millennial assembly line workers are more filled with words such as the working people at the bottom, blood and sweat, hardship, and helplessness.
Nowadays, when it comes to “assembly line workers,” one will inevitably think of “robots.”. The gears of technological progress are irreversibly driving the miraculous collective relocation of assembly line workers.
The emergence of industrial robots is not so much a trend of the times as it replicates the story of assembly line factories and elevates the mission of assembly line workers.
Assembly line workers VS Industrial robots
Industrial robots have achieved standardization in production at their core. On the other hand, the application cases on the front line that can be applied to industrial robots almost have a commonality: high requirements for product standardization, large production batches, and high requirements for technical accuracy and stability in production lines.
The significance of its emergence is more like a lighthouse in the manufacturing industry, liberating hands with technology and throwing out new hope for industrial development, with visible benefits.
Song Tao, CEO of Atomrobot, an expert in high-speed industrial robotics, once interpreted industrial robots as follows: We use technological means to liberate human hands and return them to more advanced or artistic work.
Throughout the development process of industrial robots, it is a process of optimizing and iterating production methods. Just like over a hundred years ago, cars gradually replaced carriages; Nowadays, although machines have not experienced the gradual twists and turns of cars overturning carriages, from the “history of frustration” of cars, we realize that when old things compete with innovative new technologies, what the public can accept is not only the troubles highlighted by old things, but also the amazing “convenience” of new things.
In the current era of declining birth rates, labor is no longer an advantage, but rather the cost of labor continues to rise. This poses a huge challenge for labor-intensive manufacturing enterprises that rely heavily on human resources.
The emergence of industrial robots, replacing manual labor, can gradually release repetitive labor. This also means that traditional artificial soft spots will be effectively overcome. How to overcome it?
Compare several dimensions:
Traditional assembly line workers are driven by physiological, psychological, and environmental factors, with many uncertain factors.
In terms of work efficiency, the same work requires more time and energy costs for labor;
In terms of work accuracy, manual fatigue and other uncontrollable factors can easily lead to work errors;
Work consistency, artificial emotional and emotional factors, actions are easily controlled by thinking dynamics, and consistency is poor;
Work safety, in harsh production line environments, manual labor may encounter accidents and dangers;
In terms of work costs, labor costs such as recruitment, training, and management remain high.
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