Where are Fresh Ideas for Automation?

Any manufacturer will go backward when the boss (Small entreprises" owner) don't listen and wants to learn from the worker(s) who use the machines or equipment every day. This is an attitude problem coming from the top of any organization. Japanese understood from E. Deming and other Americans that knowledge comes from the bottom to the top and not the other way. 90% of the managers, including a few engineers I talked through my life were only good talkers but not very efficient mechanics.

Also, the Chineses start to catch up the same system. We will be in danger concerning manufacturing in the very close future or already started? It's not the salary of the worker. The problem is in the understanding of the machines and its capacity.

I work over 50 years by using high-speed mixers to disperse pigments and other solids, and I get to the concludions that my knowledge is superior - without criticizing them - of the manufacturer of the mixer, who makes what was made before.

When managers, engineers, and owners rely on the capacity and knowledge of workers using the machines, the situation will progress to the positive side, Gil.