Evaluate if a car manufacturer and a carpenter need ICT to succeed.

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Evaluate if a car manufacturer and a carpenter need ICT to succeed.

For years car manufacturers made and sprayed all cars by hand. This was a very long and tiresome process which took a lot of labour and cost employers a lot of money. However, recently there has been a huge development in technology which has changed the industry completely. For example the spraying and building of cars is now done by robots. This means the job is done at a faster rate and is more efficient. This is important because it means the company can save money by not having to pay employees by producing more cars in less time. The advantages of using robots are that labour doesn’t have to be paid and the robot works more efficiently. On the other hand the machines need to be programmed/ fixed and this means someone must be employed to do this. Also, making a lot of employees jobless, won’t give the company a very good image and people may start to “boycott” the company. Whether or not switching to robots is a success will depend on how quickly the company can replace the money spent on buying/building the robots in the first place. It also depends on how much the robots cost to run and whether or not they are really efficient.

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A carpenter could use robots in the same way. Robots can carve etc. wood more efficiently than a human can. This would mean the company could increase its output. However the disadvantages of using a robot in this situation is that if the robot was programmed incorrectly, or broke down during a process, wood would be wasted and so would time, also someone would have to be employed to watch the machine for these mistakes and programme it. In the long run however profits would increase due to an increased output. However in the short run the company would ...

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*** The writer does not emphasise the difference between a large car company and a small carpenters. They will have very different uses of ICT and need it to vastly different extents. Many applications of ICT are ignored, for instance the use of ICT in the design process.