Unions and Automation Risk: Who Bears the Cost of Automation?

Automation, Leisure and the Unions

Luddism, and the smashing of new machines. The introduction to the T.U.C. report on "Automation in the Office"* stated clearly that automation can lead to better living standards for all workers, though it is well worth remembering that, in the offices themselves, the staffs have only just achieved legal provision on Health, Welfare and Safety, the Act introducing them becoming effective on Aug...

Low-cost Automation and Scada:

Automating water projects makes economic sense in the western United States. But is it justified in other parts of the world? The authors feel strongly that it is. This paper discusses the experiences of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and others in developing, installing, and evaluating low-cost automation systems in the western United States. It also briefly discusses similar low-cost automati...

Who Bears the Cost of Corruption?

Corruption is costly for developing nations’ economies, but scholars and policy makers do not fully understand who bears the cost of corruption. We conduct a field experiment in Malawi to determine the impacts of political connections, socioeconomic status, and shared ethnicity on the degree of corruption a citizen encounters across two contexts – police roadblocks and electricity service offic...

Accelerate Banking Automation While Reducing Risk and Cost

Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...