FOX News : Health

09 October, 2019

Automation- Manufacturing change

By SEA Globe
Oct. 9, 2019


Advances in automation are fuelling fears that the rise of robots could drive millions of Asian factory jobs back to the West.

Even on a warm Friday afternoon, the floor stammers with activity at Raytec’s garment factory in the west of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Some of the final products made here are stamped with logos for small-town organisations in the US heartland; others are limited-edition items for household name brands such as eyewear designer Oakley.

But not everything needs a human eye or hand, factory manager Kim van der Weerd said, nodding at a nearby computer screen.

“This used to be somebody’s job,” she said.

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