ROBOT INCENTIVES, NASA MOON DOUBT, BEST NEWS.

NASA MOON DOUBT
There still seems to be a negativity around robots that I can’t understand. More importantly, the Chinese can’t understand it. Apparently they have more industrial robots than the US, Japan and Germany put together, with the UK barely featuring on the same page. I’ll confess this is an uncorroborated ‘fact’, but one that has been bandied around this week at the ‘Manufacturing in the age of Experience’ conference in Shanghai.

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This event, put on by Dassault Systemes, is aimed at board-level types who want to take – or are in the process of taking – their companies into the digital future. Robots and broader factory automation come into this, but are only one element. Only when combined and fully integrated with factory planning, supply chain management, digital twins, process optimisation, maintenance, product demand planning, product lifecycle management and more, will the true benefits of digitisation be felt. That is the message that appears to be resonating in China, but far less so in the UK. Rather than embrace the opportunity of entering a digital manufacturing environment, UK companies seem reluctant to invest round the edges. Would tax relief on a robot really pave the way to success? Or does that speak volumes about the lack of commitment to take the bull by the horns?

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At this event there has also been much talk of the impact of 5G and AI. The former will, they say, ‘democratise data’ – or to put it another way, rolling out high-speed comms across an enterprise will be affordable. Yunhou Wang of analysts CCID observed that by 2025 100 per cent of big companies will be in the Cloud and a more surprising 97 per cent will be using AI in their business processes. In other words, the acceleration of manufacturing technology will be enabled by 5G and AI – they have become the digital champions. And the companies that embrace new technologies stand to increase the advantage they have over their more unevolved competitors

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Bob Parker, senior VP of IDC, believes that if companies are going to be successful they need a long-term digital roadmap that starts now – the technology to digitise a company is already here. He quoted Boeing as an example of a company that has put together a 20-year digital plan and committed the necessary financial resources to see it through.

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This journey was described by Morgan Zimmerman, CEO of Exalead, Dassault Systemes, as using: “the virtual world to expand and improve the real world. China is paving the way and has started that transformation.”

So where are we in the UK? Instinctively relating robots to job losses is a bad idea, simply because it should work out in the long term to be wrong. Perhaps tax relief on robots is a good idea, although maybe equivalent to replacing a seal when a whole pump system needs updating. Unless we are really going to get left behind we do need to explore the bigger picture and embrace the opportunity rather than resist it.

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