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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 6,1983 features Energy-saver puts out light Management problems created by high tech United Press International NEW YORK — High technol ogy and automation will not re scue the U.S. economy until managers learn to adapt their philosophy to these miracles, says Dean Joel Goldhar of the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Management in Chi cago. At the present rate, Goldhar said, that could take 20 years be cause the demands of the new era run counter to all the past teachings and instincts of Amer ican executives. Despite the slow progress so far, Goldhar thinks a fair start is being made in the automobile and some other industries. He said robotics, computer- aided design and manufactur ing and other technological miracles are forcing a second re volution. The first revolution created by automation was to put emphasis on product uni formity, longer manufacturing runs and concerted efforts to create longer product life cycles. Now, he said, all that is being reversed as realization dawns rather slowly that the new tech nology makes it possible to pro liferate products without enor mous investments, or to discover in advance if big investments really will pay off, to reduce star tup time and delivery time and slash inventory requirements. United Press International NEW YORK — Half a cen tury ago when management consultants were called “effi ciency experts,” one of their favorite tricks was to hang a lot of signs around the office saying “Please turn off the lights when leaving.” This sparked office jokes and cartoons in the press; why should a company pay some body a big fee to hand out such mundane advice? And since the potential savings from turning off the lights weren’t exactly spectacular. But now come two prominent companies, United Technolo gies of Hartford, Conn., and Tishman Research, a division of the big Tishman construction group in New York, who say the efficiency experts were right ab out turning off the lights in the office after all; they were just 50 years ahead of time. led the Infracon, automatically turns off all the lights in a room exactly 12 minutes after the last person leaves it. energy, Tishman and tluj Technologies put Infracon the market for general®) December. supply of electricity was growing by leaps and bounds in those A paradox is created: As pro duct cycles become shorter and the demand is for ever greater product proliferation and far more customizing of products to fit an individual customer’s wants or to do a specific job, the management cycle must leng then and management style must change accordingly. days and electric rates went down almost every year, the The two companies have de veloped a sensor that beats the efficiency experts’ plaintive signs all hollow. This device, cal- Infracon has been tested in the huge New York World Trade Center, by such industrial and commercial companies as Rockwell International, Con Edison, Manufacturers Hanov er Trust, Equitable Life Assur ance Society, the American Stock Exchange, by a number of hospitals and libraries, by Col umbia University and a number of colleges. When these tests all showed significant savings in Since lighting accounls (In’ ai iim m percent of an office energy costs (heating conditioning account fytfflpersor of the rest) and the tests# j u | e d have indicated Infracon pjacen save anywhere from 50id percent of lighting costs,ii , , should be a very goodn® |C e< for the device, said Anti*® Autorino, president ofl# CM Technologies’ Building)) lei'T' mation subsidiary. 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