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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