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Purpose – This paper examines how perceptions about salesforce automation (SFA) systems are influenced by the perceived … accuracy of the information the system provides. Design/methodology/approach – Three hypotheses are tested. They are as follows …. Sales people who perceive that the information is inaccurate will be less likely to: have a positive perception of the …
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Abstract Recent increases in automation and unemployment have aggravated income inequality in India. Thus, it is … imperative for policy-makers to cut down on inequality and unemployment while promoting planned automation. This paper proposes a … joint solution to reform India’s taxation framework to fight income inequality while promoting planned automation. The paper …
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Abstract Automation represents a sensitive issue in the debate between social actors of the port-maritime industry …. Automation produced a contraction of the number of dockworkers since the 1960s. However, the idea that technological innovation … workers organizing in light of the automation processes in the European port of Antwerp. The article focuses on how working …
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This paper examines the effects of automation on the liquidity, volatility, returns and efficiency of shares traded on … infrequently traded securities. While our results show an improvement in the liquidity of shares following the automation, returns …
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One of the primary characteristics of the sales environment of the next century will be the proliferation of technology as an important component of the sales process. The successful salesperson of the future will be marked by an ability to incorporate and directly apply a wide range of...
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Two new items of dedicated automation have recently been developed by TTP LabTech Ltd to serve needs in the …
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Pre‐packaged robot applications now include robot‐served computerized measurement systems. Accessory suppliers innovate with compact electric powered grippers and vacuum suction cup‐style grippers with self‐contained vacuum supply. Linear slides and actuators beef up features and options...
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This article describes the image processing and tracking algorithms used in a mechanical hoe that accurately weeds between parallel rows of crops under variable outdoor illumination conditions.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States), the world‐known basic and applied research facility operated by the US Department of Energy, was tasked with reducing the cost to produce titanium aluminide sheet metal used to cover the outside of military aircraft and...
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Recent National Manufacturing Week Show in Chicago highlighted many new innovations. Assembly system designers can choose from new low inertia drives, more compact linear and rotary motors, innovative robots and pneumatic actuators along with new modular structural components which were featured...
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