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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1987
OVER 700 DELEGATES FROM 56 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED IN THE FOUR DAY CONFERENCE WHICH ENDED ON NOVEMBER 12.
VIEWS WERE EXCHANGED ON TOPICS SUCH AS SMOKING CESSATION, SMOKING AND ECONOMICS, PASSIVE SMOKING, SMOKING AND WOMEN, SMOKING AND CHILDREN, SMOKLES8 TOBACCO, SMOKING CONTROL LEGISLATION AND SMOKING CONTROL MEDIA STRATEGIES.
PAVING THE WAY FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
THE MAIN
OBSTACLE TO
THE WIDER
OF APPLICATION
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
OF
AUTOMATION IN HONG KONG CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE FACT THAT ATTITUDES HAVE NOT YET BEEN FULLY ATTUNED TOWARDS IT, THE DIRECTOR INDUSTRY, MR K.Y. YEUNG, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
INSTITUTE
OF
HE WAS SPEAKING AT A SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS AND THE SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS.
MANUFACTURER
WHOSE OPERATIONS WERE PRESSURE IN
OUTPUT, HAD ΤΟ BY
MR YEUNG SAID THAT FOR A
WHO NOW FACED HEAVY RELATIVELY LABOUR INTENSIVE, AND TERMS OF RISING WAGES AND OTHER COSTS,
INEFFICIENT-
HE QUESTION SUBSTANTIAL WASTE AND INCONSISTENT QUALITY, THE RESOLVE WAS WHETHER HE SHOULD OPT OUT OF THE HONG KONG ENVIRONMENT
AN CREATE GOING ELSEWHERE, OR WHETHER HE WITHIN HIS ENTERPRISE.
SHOULD
AUTOMATION POLICY
MANUFACTURER WOULD "EVEN IF HE DOES NOT OPT OUT ENTIRELY, THE
MIGHT BK INCREASED, PAYROLL AND STILL HAVE TO CONSIDER HOW OUTPUT
AND HOW THESE OBJECTIVES WASTAGE REDUCED AND PRODUCTION SPEEDed up, MIGHT BE
THROUGH ACHIEVED
INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION SYSTEM," HE SAID.
AND
WELL THE PATTERN AND AT INVESTING IN
WERK PROSPECTS
FAVOURABLE,
WERE MANUFACTURERS
AND
MR YEUNG SAID THAT WHILE HONG KONG'S KNOWN FOR THEIR ABILITY TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO CHANGES IN AND LEVEL OF EXTERNAL DEMAND FOR THEIR OUTPUT, NEW
CAPACITY PRODUCTION
WHEN EXPORT
TO INTRODUCE THOSE MANAGEMENT RELATIVELY FEW HAD BEEN WILLING
то MEDIUM
LONG TERM PRODUCTIVITY TECHNICAL SYSTEMS WHICH MADE FOR GROWTH AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.
REFLECT AN
11 HR
'WHERB THAT WILLINGNESS EXISTS THE RESULTS TEND TO AD HOC OR BANDAGED APPROACH TO QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION, SAID.
SHOW THAT MANUFACTURERS HOWEVER, THERE WAS AMPLE EVIDENCE TO
EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION WOULD INVEST HEAVILY IN THE EXPORT PROSPECTS WERE FAVOURABLE.
CAPACITY
WHEN
"THE FACT