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The new trend in industry is not the increased pace of acceleration but the growth of the use of machines for the mental tasks of perception, calculation & decision. These innovations are most likely to upset workers in the consumer goods industries & in clerical occup's. In many cases automation will increase the responsibility of the worker, but it may isolate him as well. Soc'& econ relationships must be considered in any reorganization of industry & the worker should be kept informed at every stage. A guaranteed annual wage is highly desirable. (IPSA). Adapted from the source document.

Automation as a work was first used to describe the linking together of machine tools into a continuous production line by mechanical devices to load, unload & transfer between machines or between stations in a single machine. As the meaning of aut omation has broadened, this original application has increasing) been described as 'Detroit automation.' Many examples are found in the automotive industry, but the technique has been suc & cessful in manufacturing appliances, motors, radio & television sets, & other items produced in large volume. Some major problems have arisen that limit the econ size of a single automatic sequence of operations. Growth rate is limited by the balance between the degree of flexibility possible & the production volume that will probably be required. The rate at which automation is added in the metalworking industries has tapered off in the last few yrs but seems to be rising again, & continued increase, though at a less hectic pace, seems likely. The recent development of numerically controlled machines will do for small-lot producers what the transfer machine is doing for mass producers. AA.