waste reduction Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:29:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Toyota Claims Manual Labor is More Efficient than Automation https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-manual-labor-efficient-automation-20140408/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-manual-labor-efficient-automation-20140408/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:12:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46893 Industrial robots, such as those used by automakers, make it possible to automate many repetitive tasks that would require many hours of manual labor, but is it efficient? Toyota Motor Corporation found out the hard way that industrial automation is not as efficient as having real human beings doing the work. In the short run, […]

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