subject: Has the GE PLC changed Manufacturing? [print this page] Has the GE PLC changed Manufacturing? Has the GE PLC changed Manufacturing?
What aspect of each of our lives hasn't been touched in some way by Computer Technology? Every time you step into your kitchen how often has it that you're not using some form or variety of technology to prepare the food they are going to eat? People who are in the manufacturing business went from Henry Ford's production line to a high Tech Products like the GE Fanuc series and specifically the GE PLC one of products to help aid them with what they're trying to accomplish. When you think about things like that and you think about exactly how much technology affects each one of our lives on a day in and day out basis and really is quite remarkable. For example 50 years ago people's interaction with Computer Technology was extremely limited. Unless you worked for the technological firm that was using computers and developing them probably, you likely have very minimal contact with technology. Even in our cars nowadays Computer Technology is a major part of every vehicle. We can check our gas mileage on our onboard computers and find out how many more miles we can drive our cars before running out of gas. Even something like this that we take for granted was not available 50 years ago. Cars are not fly by wires they are today. When you think about how prevalent technology has become in such a short period of time, it really is quite a remarkable thing to think about. This all begs the question where will we be in another 50 years?
