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Fibreglass Shaping The Future
Computers are taking over. It seems that every time you take a look around today another job has gone because there is a computer that can perform the job just as well as the human counterpart. Even if you pop down to the shops now to buy some food, drink or household items from the supermarket there is no guarantee that you will be speaking to a human being. The other day I popped down to a local supermarket and I was confronted with a machine where I had to scan my own items of food and pay the machine.
Some people say that there is little to no industrial work left, but if you look closely then you will notice that there is actually more opportunities provided through the industrial enhancements made by computers. The days where you would get a set of skilled individuals toiling away throughout the day in a factory with a set of hand tools might be vanishing fast, but the jobs that once took days to complete can now be completed in hours instead.
One example of that is in the design of structures made through the material fibreglass. The product is highly versatile but needs a great deal of manipulation through a complex computer design package called Computer Aided Design or C.A.D.
Fibreglass is utilised in a number of projects from car design to pole vault poles. It is a particularly resourceful product that can be manipulated into any range of shapes to suit various different purposes.
Many of us probably have fibreglass products in our houses and don't even know it. We are surrounded by fibreglass every time we visit a theme park or fair ground. Most of the carriages on the various rides are constructed using the material.
But maybe the most popular use for fibreglass is in the form of heat proofing. The material is moulded into the shape of vessels for storing the contents of excessively hot or dangerous substances. The metabolic structure of the material means that it is never likely to get anywhere close to the point of melting.
So although it may seem that computers are taking over the world and taking jobs away from skilled workers, at the same time it is helping to create new jobs in the industry. What it is important to do is to move with the times and it is important that we as a society continue to up source our skills.
About the Author Anna Stenning is a technology teacher with many years of experience in the teaching industry. Find out more about fibreglass at http://www.stuartpease.co.uk/
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