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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Geoffrey A Fowler, Holiday Hiring Call: People vs. Robots. Wall Street
Journal, Dec. 20, 2010 (title in the print).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704073804576023613748146944.html
Quote:
"Meanwhile, just outside of Phoenix, Amazon.com Inc. takes a more human-
powered approach. There, employees walk 18 to 20 miles a day
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704073804576023613748146944.html#ixzz18rHgXYaD
"One sign of Amazon's efficiency are its increasingly late deadlines for
free shipping. Last week, the retailer extended the deadline for people who
need to receive gifts by Christmas by two days to Dec. 19, its latest
deadline ever.
My comment:
(a) The Kanji for teh Japanese noun or verb kaizen is 改善.
(b) Car makers in Japan and the West found it the hard way. They used to
have robots making cars. Then to their surprise, they found that China could
produce cheaper cars by using humans entirely--almost--due to cheap labor
there.
(2) Scott Kirshner, Born in Boston, growing in Calif; Highlights from
Innovation Economy blog. Boston Globe, Dec. 20, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/12/20/born_in_boston_growing_in_calif/
My comment:
(a) The title of the report is about a company that moved to California. But
the second part of the report is about a Wilmington (a suburb to the north
of Boston), Massachusetts subsidiary that has nothing to do with California.
In the print, Part II had the heading "Warehouse robotics" (same as the
online version) but because the report was split into different pages (pages
1 and 3 of Business section), the latter page has an additional title for
the report: "Robotics company is hiring (people, that is)."
CasePick looks complicated. See a photo of CasePick. Flickr (uploaded by
Seattle4e, on Nov. 11, 2008)
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