Manual Labor to Industrial Automation The world of industry is going from manual labor to industrial automation. The question that must be asked is "Is this transformation for the good or for the bad? The answer could be both alternatives depending on which point of view. Heads of corporations say automation is the wave of the future. Automation is said to be a cheaper and more effective method for producing high-tech products. The onset of machines in the work place has been a long-time problem. This problem is that man versus the machine. More and more as of late the machine has been winning the battle. The machine is taking millions of