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CAD/CAM in the factory:
Now the next question to be answered is ‘how
can these technologies be introduced in the jewellery factory?’
Introduction of these
new technologies in a company, or to arrange for the company to
utilize them by means of new specialized design companies, can give
substantial advantages in terms of cost and time required for making
a model, but it is not exempt from problems. In particular, it has
been observed that, generally, the introduction of these new technologies
can lead to one of two opposite reactions: either the company totally
refuses to consider the new technology or takes a liking to it and
tries to use it at all stages of the production process, possibly
fully in-house. In the first case, the refusal generally comes from
the fear of change. At the start, some manufacturing operations
will require changes that will result in some unavoidable opposition
inside the factory by the operators who will see it, wrongly, as
a challenge to their work or to their position. I stress “wrongly”
because these new technologies absolutely do not aim to reduce or
limit the tasks of designers or model makers. On the contrary, when
these new systems are integrated into the factory production process,
they will have much wider freedom of action and a stronger stimulus
to imagination.
There is also the
second case, when these techniques are not only accepted, but even
extolled, when the first results are achieved. At this moment a
new problem arises that is exactly opposite to the first case: the
entrepreneur tries to do every thing with the computer, even the
operations that can still be made more easily, logically and economically
by hand.
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