Automation Canada Quarterly Volume 1 Issue 1 - 5

Automation Increases Productivity,

Allowing Companies to Hire More Employees
BY FANUC AMERICA

A rosy job market has employers facing challenges in hiring workers
with specific skill sets required to succeed in various positions. More
than 80 percent of companies report struggling to find talent,
according to the Society for Human Resources Management.
An aging population has created scarcity in the labor pool. When this
reality is combined with a job market that's performing better than it
has in five decades-with jobs added every month for a record 107
consecutive months, as of August 2019-companies across the
United States are taxed in finding the right workers for their positions.

New Jobs Created by Automation
In many workplaces, employees engaged in manual labor whose
positions are eliminated may even benefit from automation. These
employees can be trained to operate the robots and other automation
technologies used in their workplaces. In these cases, the jobs lost to
automation are resurrected in the form of new jobs created by
automation.

Automation solutions such as robots, CNC systems, and related tools
have penetrated the workplace since the 1960s, and they're being
embraced all the more in recent years as company owners seek to
maximize productivity and efficiency. Robots and the programming
they require to complete actions have improved dramatically in the
past decade.
Today's shallow labor pool is also helping serve as a driving force for
the adoption of greater amounts of automation solutions in the
workplace.
Are Jobs Lost to Automation?
There continues to be some negativity about robots and automation
taking jobs away from people-especially those who lack skills,
experience, training-feeding the unemployment rate. An increasing
number of people now realize, however, this belief is a myth and have
come to appreciate the wide range of benefits that automation
provides. These proponents of automation demonstrate that, as
robots and automation are used in manufacturing workplaces, the
number of jobs actually increases. More jobs are created because
productivity elevates, thanks to marked efficiencies directly related to
automation.
C A N A D I A N A U TO M AT I O N

In some industries, new jobs created by automation can turn out to be a
boon for employees. Take the automotive industry, for example, which
FANUC, the world's leading supplier of robots, CNC systems and
factory automation, has helped revolutionize. A longtime challenge in
the auto industry has been safety concerns of its employees on the
assembly line floor. Employees can be injured by using equipment or
handling materials and also become sickened from breathing in paints
and fumes.

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