In 2005 we watched more workers lose their jobs to the robotic factory, some due to the efficiencies of economies of scale and some due to Unions demanding more than the companies could give and still appease shareholder value and maintain quarterly profits. You see the robotic factory has capabilities of setting up shorter runs without completely retooling and can out produce factories, which are completely run by human workers.

This means there are greater profits in each unit produced and that the company can compete with low prices in world markets against nations with hundreds of workers working for peanuts simply through pure efficiency. No one would be more proud of the robotic factory than my ancestor Friedrich Winslow Taylor.

We saw another new trend in the US Automaker sector, that is when it was time to cut costs, they cut not the efficient robotic factory, but the inefficient human, Union Labor run factories, the old factories which are costly to run.

In 2006 we will see more innovation in robotic factories, which will run on self-generated energy and with co-generation methods selling energy back to the grid, which is not used. We will see economies of scale beat out the Chinese Skilled Labor Worker who is willing to work for less than $7.00 to 10.00 per day. We will see more companies lay off workers with older factories and we will see some 60,000 union workers in Ford and GM factories look for new jobs. We may even see some animosity and saboteurs amongst the rank and file union workers who are upset that a robot took their job. Think on all this in 2006.

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