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2016-05-26 Economy

Adidas to use robots at new shoe factory in Germany

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Posted by Fred 2016-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Real minimum wage workers, eh?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-26 02:02|| 2016-05-26 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The real issue here is to shorten the supply chain and hence react more quickly to market demands.

Back in the day when I worked in manufacturing systems, it was called Just in Time inventory.

Where this is heading is no inventory at all. Every thing made to order and the end of mass production, at least of consumer products.

Rather a problem for China.

Posted by phil_b 2016-05-26 07:04|| 2016-05-26 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 But what about all the recent arrivals? Where are they going to work? Robots don't eat Doner Kebabs.

Posted by Mortimer Braille, Esq. 2016-05-26 10:07|| 2016-05-26 10:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Tip of the iceberg. Read Tyler Cowen's Average is Over.

Posted by Iblis 2016-05-26 13:14|| 2016-05-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Somebody's gotta build and program the robots. Robots building robots? OK, but somebody still has to do the programming. Those will not be minimum wage jobs.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-05-26 13:23|| 2016-05-26 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 ..and think of the reprogramming with each faddish edition of the next celeb shoe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-05-26 21:41|| 2016-05-26 21:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Foxconn now has over 60,000 robots making IPhones and plans for over 2,000,000 by 2020.

Posted by 3dc 2016-05-26 22:45|| 2016-05-26 22:45|| Front Page Top

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