Name: Insights: How Robots Will Lead To More Jobs
Uploaded: 2020-03-11
Duration: 1 min 51 s
Description: Universal Robots' Douglas Peterson sees a future of 'man with machine.' (March 2017)

[MUSIC PLAYING] DOUGLAS PETERSON: You say man versus machine. We say, man with machine because, in our view, it's the employee, man or woman, that's deploying the machine. So they work right alongside it. From a small and medium enterprise, from the ownership standpoint, you don't have to reconfigure the process. You're not having to rearrange equipment as much as you would with more traditional robot. You can put that robot right in place, easily mount it, plug it into the wall, start programming it, and what's happening is the employees themselves are thinking of new ways to deploy the robot in the manufacturing environment. ANDREW NUSCA: Tell me a little bit about how you look at the deployment of robots, and then also the retraining of existing workers right because that's the argument the technology doesn't destroy jobs, but it's certainly kind of redoes them DOUGLAS PETERSON: Well, I think awareness and training is key, is key to really exploding this market of collaborative robots. We have a partner in Ohio, RAMTEC, and they're an educational organization that trains on robotics and machine tools and all kinds of different manufacturing technology. And they estimated in Ohio alone that there's a gap. There's 60,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs. And so their mission is to train more employees out of high school, retrain existing workers in the workforce to be able to implement automation and implement robotics. They also estimate that by the end of the year 2020, there might be upwards of 2 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. So by getting people trained, getting robots deployed, those robots can then be used to cover and close the shortage in manufacturing labor shortages of those 2 million and just continue to kind of close that gap and make companies more competitive. 

Insights: How Robots Will Lead To More Jobs

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Universal Robots sees a future of 'man with machine.'

How Robots Will Lead To More Jobs

Universal Robots' Douglas Peterson sees a future of 'man with machine.' (March 2017)

you say man versus machine. We say man with machine because in our view, it's the employee man or woman that's read that deploying the machine so they work right alongside it from a small and medium enterprise. From the ownership standpoint, you don't have to reconfigure the application or the process. You're not having to rearrange equipment a CZ, much as you would with more traditional robot. You can put that robot right in place, easily mounted, plug it into the wall, start programming it. And what's happening is the employees themselves are thinking of new ways to deploy the robot in the manufacturing environment. Tell me a little bit about how you look at the deployment of robots and then also the retraining of existing workers, right, because that's the argument that technology doesn't destroy jobs. But it's certainly kind of yeah, he does. Well, I think you know, awareness and training in Qi Qi toe really exploding this this market of collaborative robots. We have ah, partner in Ohio Ram Tech and their educational organization that trains on robotics and machine tools and all kinds of different manufacturing technology, and they estimate in Ohio alone that there's a gap there. 60,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs. And so their mission is to train Maur employees out of high school, retrain existing workers in the work force to be able to implement automation and implement robotics. They also estimate that by the end of the year 2020 there might be upwards of two million unfilled manufacturing jobs. So by getting people trained getting robots deployed, those robots can then be used to cover it and close the shortage of manufacturing labor shortages. Of those two million and, you know, just continue to kind of close that gap in make companies more competitive.