The Impact of Technology on Production and Short-Run Curves
The Impact of Technology on Production and Short-run Curves
Technology is the knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks more efficiently. We use technology to control the world we live in. Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tools, our civilization has come a long way. Technology today has a great importance on production. Every advancement on technology makes the production easier, quicker and at a low cost. Technology has a great impact on short-run curves by when technology advances then production of units will increase.
When technology advances so does the production of units increase which causes the average variable cost, which is the costs that vary with the quantity produced, to decrease. Also as the production increases, the fixed cost is spread over more units, causing the average fixed cost to also decrease. The decreasing average variable cost is reflected by advancement on technology such as machinery and computer technology. With the advancement of technology today the decreasing variable cost is also reflected by the labor by now machinery is replacing workers and or jobs. An example is the automotive industry twenty years ago was constructing automotives with workers and today is constructing automotives with robots. By buying new technology and hiring fewer workers a small firm will receive more production of units on average. The amount
of work and time required per unit of the output decreases, which decreases the average variable cost.
The average total cost, which is the total of the average fixed cost and the average variable cost, will also decrease by when the output increases by the new technology and spreading the fixed cost. By advancement of technology for small quantities of output, the average variable cost decreases as output increase, because of the new technology increased its production with more output with less time and human labor. Spreading the fixed cost of a small amount of output by "one
Technology is the knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks more efficiently. We use technology to control the world we live in. Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tools, our civilization has come a long way. Technology today has a great importance on production. Every advancement on technology makes the production easier, quicker and at a low cost. Technology has a great impact on short-run curves by when technology advances then production of units will increase.
When technology advances so does the production of units increase which causes the average variable cost, which is the costs that vary with the quantity produced, to decrease. Also as the production increases, the fixed cost is spread over more units, causing the average fixed cost to also decrease. The decreasing average variable cost is reflected by advancement on technology such as machinery and computer technology. With the advancement of technology today the decreasing variable cost is also reflected by the labor by now machinery is replacing workers and or jobs. An example is the automotive industry twenty years ago was constructing automotives with workers and today is constructing automotives with robots. By buying new technology and hiring fewer workers a small firm will receive more production of units on average. The amount
of work and time required per unit of the output decreases, which decreases the average variable cost.
The average total cost, which is the total of the average fixed cost and the average variable cost, will also decrease by when the output increases by the new technology and spreading the fixed cost. By advancement of technology for small quantities of output, the average variable cost decreases as output increase, because of the new technology increased its production with more output with less time and human labor. Spreading the fixed cost of a small amount of output by "one