How CNC Machines Transformed Manual Labor in Manufacturing Industries

This report examines the significant impact of Computer Numerical Machines (CNC) on manual labor across various industries. The analysis highlights how CNC machines have transformed work processes, replacing manual tasks like cutting, welding, and shearing, leading to increased productivity and reduced operational costs. The report discusses the benefits of CNC machines, including enhanced multitasking capabilities, which have improved efficiency and product quality, and the downsides, such as workforce reduction. The study emphasizes how CNC technology has revolutionized manufacturing by minimizing human error and facilitating innovative design, ultimately contributing to business growth and customer satisfaction. It concludes that while manual labor has become less prevalent, CNC machines have played a vital role in improving the overall efficiency and profitability of modern businesses.

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As stated by Handel (2016)), the recent technological advancements had substantially
changed the manner in which is being completed within the workplaces of the different
industries. Dou et al. (2017) are of the viewpoint that the different technological advancements
on the one hand had improved the productivity and thereby the profitability of the corporations
and on the other hand had replaced manual labor within the same because of which numerous
workers have lost their jobs. In this relation, mention needs to be made of the computer
numerical machines which have replaced numerous workers in different industries for the
completion of tasks like cutting, wielding, flame or plasma cutting, shearing and other similar
kinds of tasks that prove to be very demanding for the workers (Mahendarto, 2020). The
effective usage of the computer numerical machines have helped the different industries to
improve their productivity, reduce their operations cost and also to improve the quality of the
products or the services manufactured by them which in turn had positively affected the
industries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the manner in which the computer numerical
machines have affected the manual work performed by the workers in the different industries.
Computer numerical machines have substantially changed the manner in which work is
being performed in the different corporations by facilitating multitasking and this in turn had
replaced manual labor within the corporations. Moreira et al. (2019) are of the viewpoint that
over the years the productivity and thereby the profitability of the corporations used to suffer
because of the inability of their workers to multitask. However, with the usage of the different
computer numerical machines the corporations no longer have to suffer from this particular issue
since these machines are capable of multitasking which in turn had substantially enhanced the
effectiveness or for that matter the efficiency of the work performed by the business enterprises
(Londono, Mario & Mora, 2018). Adding to this, Waschull et al. (2020) have noted that these

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machines are capable of handling different kinds of tasks simultaneously which is practically
impossible for a single human being to do and thereby although they have reduced the workforce
capacity of the corporations by more than half yet it is seen that their productivity had doubled.
In the light of these aspects, it can be said that although manual labor had become an obsolete
thing in the different corporations on the score of the usage of computer numerical machines yet
by promoting multitasking, enhancing the effectiveness as well as efficiency of the corporations,
computer numerical machines have been able to substantially enhance the productivity of the
corporations and thereby their productivity.
An important benefit offered by the extensive usage of thee different computer numerical
machines to the corporations can be attributed to the fact that they have helped the corporations
to significantly reduce their operations cost which in turn had helped them to maximize their
profitability. Geerts and Renda (2019) are of the viewpoint that employee wages or for that
matter employee remuneration formed an important factor which substantially enhanced the
operations cost incurred by the corporations. However, it is seen that the computer numerical
machines have completely replaced manual labor within the corporations which in turn had
enabled the corporations to downsize their workforce and keep only the workers who would be
needed for handling the machines (Balsmeier & Woerter, 2019). This in turn had helped the
corporations to substantially reduce the amount of capital that they used to spend on the wages or
the remuneration of their large workforce. More importantly, these machines by multitasking are
being able to complete the job role of numerous employees and also the corporations do not have
to spend additional capital for the healthcare policies and others of the employees that they used
to take care of in the earlier times (Øyum, Thøring & Olsen, 2019). Furthermore, this had also
reduce the expenditure of the corporations on the training and development programs, career

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development workshops, motivation workshops, improvement of organizational culture and
other similar activities undertaken by the organizations (Waschull et al., 2020). These reductions
in the operations cost incurred by the corporations have positively affected their profitability and
thereby facilitated the financial growth of the corporations as well.
The effective usage of the different computer numerical machines has also helped the
corporations to improve the quality of the products or the services which are being offered by
them. Luo et al. (2019) are of the viewpoint that the usage of the computer numerical machines
for the manufacture of the products or the services have substantially reduced the manufacturing
defects on account of the human errors within the products or the services offered by them which
in turn had not only lead to the improvement of the quality of the same but had also helped the
corporations to earn the satisfaction as well as the loyalty of the customers as well. Adding to
this, Moreira et al. (2019) have noted that the usage of the computer numerical machines has also
made possible the design concepts, product or service attributes and others which in the earlier
times were not possible for the corporations because of skill as well as the knowledge limitations
of their workers. However, the modern-day corporations which take the help of computer
numerical machines do not have to worry about these aspects on the score of the same for the
manufacture of the products or the services offered by them. These in turn had helped the
corporations to substantially improve the quality of the services or the products offered by them
which in turn had facilitated the growth of their business as well.
To conclude, the emergence of different technologies like computer numerical machines
and others have significantly replaced manual labor within the different corporations. For
instance, within the workplaces of the different modern-day corporations it is seen that manual
labor had become completely obsolete and the computer numerical machines are being used for

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the completion of the different job roles. More importantly, it had been seen that the effective
usage of the computer numerical machines while helping the corporations to replace manual
labor had also helped them to enhance their productivity as well as profitability, improve the
quality of the services or the products offered by them and also reduce their operations cost as
well which in turn had helped them to maximize their profitability. These aspects of the impact
of computer numerical machines on manual labor become apparent from the above analysis of
the same.

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