Unit 1.1 Indutry and Enterprise

What are the advantages of using automation over human workers?

• They don't get sick or take holidays

• They can work round the clock

• They can work in the dark

• Robots have a high initial investment cost

• Robots don't have the same decision making capabilities as humans

How have jobs changes because of automation?

• They have become more technical

• Humans don't have to do repetitive back breaking work

• Companies pay robots instead of paying workers

• They have become more manual

Perhistoric people made tools like these to...

• Make their lives easier

• decorate their caves

• for fun

What kind of tasks are robots good at?

• Repetivitive, simple tasks

• Complex tasks requiring high dexterity

• tasks that require live decision making based on a complex changing enviroment

• tasks that require manouvering of an uneven busy eniroment full of humans

Reorder the following from earliest to most recent event

• Digital revolution

• Stone age tools

• Indutrial revolution

What is not true of barcodes?

• They can represents letters and numbers

• They can be used for stock control

• They were introduced in the 1960s

• There are 2 different types

What are the current challeneges with electric cars?

• There range is as good as internal combustion engines

• Drivers are less keen to adopt electric cars

• They often explode

• They are better for the enviroment than cumbustion engines

Which is not an example of a new technology?

• Hydrogen power

• Crude oil

• Harnassing natural resources

• Battery technologies

Which catagories have new and emerging technologies effected?

• Personnel, job roles and hierarchical structure

• Physical space and layout of the workplace

• Systems, processes and workflow

True or false? A good idea will achieve commercial success whether or not the execution of that idea is good

• True

• False