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Monday, April 4, 2011

Reading Questions: Chapter 11

3. Because automation allows for tighter integration of planning with manufacturing, reducing the time that materials and machines sit idle and automation reduces waste in facilities, raw materials, and labor.


6. De-skilling is when you have an automated job you transform it so that it requires less skill. And example of a de-skilled job is working at the cash at the counter at restaurants. The machine allows the employee to input orders with the push of buttons and it calculates the price using a database. Up-skilling is making an automated job more technical. An example of this is making databases, spreadsheets and email systems.


7. (a) The working conditions bring to mind the oppressive factory sweatshops of the 19th century.
(b) It causes many health problems.


8. Because students need to learn how to work comfortably with all kinds of knowledge tools.

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