A recent breakthrough in the manufacturing industry is the development of a fuel manufacturing plant that can produce vehicles using robots only. Despite these advances some manufacturers prefer to use human labour.Give two advantages and two disadvantages of manufacturing industry.
Advantages
-Increase efficiency due to the balancing of workload and production capacity.
-Improve customer service.
-High quality goods are produced.
-Reduces cost production due to efficient utilization of resources.
Disadvantages.
-High initial cost of setting up an automated system.
-It may lead to unemployment
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