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WorksheetsUnit 1.1 Indutry and Enterprise
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
Stone age tools
Indutrial revolution
Digital 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
