Canon opts for full automation
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May 15, 2012, Tuesday
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CANON Inc is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs - a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics.
If successful, counting on machines can help preserve this nation's technological power - not the stereotype of machines snatching assembly line jobs from workers, Jun Misumi, a company spokesman, said yesterday.
The move toward machine-only production will likely be completed in the next few years, perhaps as soon as 2015, Misumi said.
Japanese firms have been moving production abroad to offset the earnings damage from the soaring yen. Fears are rising over a hollowing-out of Japan Inc as jobs move to China, India and the rest of Asia where labor costs are cheaper.
If successful, counting on machines can help preserve this nation's technological power - not the stereotype of machines snatching assembly line jobs from workers, Jun Misumi, a company spokesman, said yesterday.
The move toward machine-only production will likely be completed in the next few years, perhaps as soon as 2015, Misumi said.
Japanese firms have been moving production abroad to offset the earnings damage from the soaring yen. Fears are rising over a hollowing-out of Japan Inc as jobs move to China, India and the rest of Asia where labor costs are cheaper.
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