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Automation and productivity Q and AQuestions:

1. What are some advantages of mass production?

2.What are some disadvantages of mass production?

3.What is Automation?

4. When did Automation first start and why?

5. How are automation and mass production connected?

Answers:
1. Possible answers

Increase of volume of production per unit of time.
Capable to satisfy the continuosly increasing of consumers' demand
Reduce the cost of production and therefore the sale price of products make it affordable to all people.

2. Possible answers

Use of large volume of resources resulting in depletion of available natural resources
Use of large quantities of chemicals that impacts on the environment
Generates large volumes of residues that have to be disposed or stored causing environmental issues and costs.

3. Automation is to change something that was traditionally done by hand to be done by a machine.

4. Automation started in the 18th century in the industrial revolution.

5. Automation and mass production are connected because automated machineries are used for mass production.

Links:
Andrei's Automation and Productivity
Andrei's automation page
Andrei's productivity page