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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
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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*®
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