Skilled Labor on High-Tech Age Kazuo MORI Polytechnic University Faculty of Human Resourse Development Text Book Series  No.1 Skilled Labor on High-Tech Age Kazuo MORI Polytechnic University Faculty of Human Resource Development Original book was published by JAVADA(Japan Vocational Ability Development Association), l 995. Kazuo MORI Dr. Eng. Faculty of Human Resource Development Polytechnic University 4-1-1. Hoshimotodai, Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa 229-11, Japan Phone: 81-427-63-9089   Fax: 81-427-63-9083 Copyright © 1997, by Polytechnic University. Printed in Japan.
Chapter l Thinking about Skill and Technology I . What is “Manufacture the Product”? 2 2. The Importance of Manufacturing the Product. 4 3. Climate for Practice 5 4. Skill and Technology 6 5. The Skill is Humanity 7 6. Is Acquisition of Skill Difficult, Why? 8 7. Tendency of Technology and Skill Education 10
Chapter 2
Clarifying the Science of Skill 13 I . Skill and Acquisition of Skill 14 15 2. Problems of Mechanization of Skill 3. Role of Science of Skill and its Content 4. Identification of "Science of Skill" 20 18 5. Instruction based on "Science of skill" 24 6. "Science of skill" offers the theories and experiences 28
Chapter 3
The World of “Wisdom” which “Technique” creates
29 I . Sake-making, Workmanship and Mechanization 30 2. It Searches for Skilled-worker's ''Skill'' 30 3. "Traditional Technique" and "Technique of Machine" 4. Two Wisdom which Man's Technique Invented 34 32 5. Influence on Appearance of "Machine's Wisdom" to "Man's Technique" 6. Symbiosis of "Wisdom" and "Technique" in Sake Brewing 40 36 i
Skilled Work on High-Tech Age
Chapter 4 I. Today's Production 44 45 2. Technology Innovation and Production Engineer's Areas 3. Development Engineer Approaches Production Engineer 48 51 1. New Relationship between FA and Man 5. Difference in Work between FMS and General Purpose Machine 52 6. Digital Understanding and Analog Grasping 55 7. Stance of Hand Functions toward Objects and Systems 57
Chapter 5
High-Tech Skills and Original Skills  
1. The Vicissitudes of Hand Skills and Modern Production Activities 60 2. Relationship of Production Systems and Skilled Labor 62 3. Ramifications of the Advantages and Disadvantages of "High-Tech 67 Labor and Skilled Labor" 4. A Return to Original Skill form High Technology 69 Chapter 6
Technical Education on High-Tech Age
73 74 l. The Future of Hand Skills as Original Experience 2. How Should We Maintain Skills and Express Them? 74 3. Kinds of Skill Experience 76 4. Fences of "Concrete and Abstract" 78 5. Method of Training Digital-Analog Skilled Workers 81 é. Conversion Model of Concreteness and Abstraction 83 85 7. Three Types of Skill Formation ß. Conception of Skill Training Program Construction 86
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59 Chapter 7 The Path to High Level Skill l. The World of “High Levels of Skill” 90 2. Conditions when Processing should be done 90 3. The Character and Disposition of Highly Experienced Workers 94 4. Process for Gaining High-level Experience 95 5. Proficiency in Technical Parts and Structural Parts 99 6. “Cultivating High-level Mastery” and OJT 100
Chapter 8
Digital Task and Analog Task
--- l . The Problem of Education/training 104 2. The Effects of Machine/System Development on Job Planning and Education/Training 105 3. Hypothesis of Digital Tasks and Analog Tasks 107 4. Are Analog Tasks and Digital Tasks a Continuum? 115 5. Problems of Conversion from Analog Tasks to Digital 118 6. The Position of Job Planning in the Analog Age 121
Chapter 9
Engineer Education and Skilled Worker Education
--- l. The 3rd Stage of Technology Innovation 124 2. Replacement from Skill to Technology 125 3. Separation of Technological Education and Skill Education 129 4. “Product Manufacturing Base” and “Technology Base”  130 5. The Relation between Skill, Science, Technology and Work 133 6. Concrete Content of "Transforming Technology into Skill" and "Transforming Skill into Technology" 138 89 7. Concrete Content of "Transforming Skill into Work" and "Transforming Work into Skill"    139 8. Foreseeable Results of "Education Transforming Skill Technology into Skill" into Technology’’ and “Education Transforming      140 9. Image of the practical engineer     141 143 10. Attempting to Resolve Issues at Capability Development. Message from author   - Polytechnic University Faculty of Human Resourse Development an   s of the