General Motors introduced the first industrial robots in 1961. Since then, Japan's largest companies have competed to make robots as human as possible. On Dec. 6, Toyota went one step further. After showing off a white android that played a meek rendition of Pomp and Circumstance on the violin, Toyota's boss, Katsuaki Watanabe, announced that the company would make electro-mechanical critters a core business. R not I," quipped one fellow who grew up in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. That is, "robots, not immigration." The average Japanese would rather have his bedpan changed by an iron creature comprised of nuts and bolts than by a Chinese or Filipino nurse, he explained. Robotics solved a major industrial problem. "Japan has no visa category in place for low-sk...
But I really needed a widget to work on," said Martin. "Custom-building machinery was not going to cut it. We needed something to manufacture. Meeting [Aurele Robin], owner of Dominion Window Door Ltd., three years ago provided the right idea for that "widget" -- a robotics unit designed to increase efficiency, reduce material costs and deploy workers to other positions in the window-manufacturing industry. "We want to get the first couple of units out, make sure the bugs are taken care of, service the accounts we get locally and do it right, but in the near future we hope to ship across Canada and the U.S.," Martin said. "Our objective is to create a growing and prosperous business in Winnipeg."
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Companies need to excel in all dimensions of business to be able to compete in the 1990s. This is because they have to compete with not only the best in their area, but must also contend with the best firms nationwide or even in the world market. Given such a situation, companies must effectively manage the three factors that affect cost, quality and speed, namely, inputs/resources, throughputs/activities and outputs/products and services. They must also apply judiciously the three key approaches necessary in dealing with these three factors, i.e. activity based management, total quality management and business process reengineering.
.... 1) In the early days of the industrial revolution, materials processes were the main focu... technologies in this area, such as robotics and cellular manufacturing. . 2) In the second hal...
Sault Ste Marie - Blaine Wallace starts new robotics company
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Ionic Engineering
.... "This ensures that companies are purchasing equipment rather than a constructio...Replacing the hydraulic systems with industrial robots is the key difference and makes ionic the bbiggest robotics integrator north of Barrie, Matusch says. . "In th...
SPECIAL REPORT: GREATER SUDBURY
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... at Durham College, says, "Companies realize the value in turning to colleges for their... in apprenticeship training as an Industrial Mechanics (Millwright) and Industrial Electricians... and electronics areas may study robotics and process control using the same facilities for ...
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... workers for the forestry industry? Will companies pay for the equipment and teachers for shop progra... manufactures develop a school of industrial design so they can compete with Scandinavian compa... on an institute for telematics and robotics to ensure its lead in the mining supply and servic...
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