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A job for one week was to move plastic roof boards from an automated saw on a pallet. They would save lots of money if they‘d place a robot there. In fact, the
by Odenwaelder 8y ago
A job for one week was to move plastic roof boards from an automated saw on a pallet. They would save lots of money if they‘d place a robot there. In fact, the hole factory could have been automated.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI would think carefully about this. Elon Musk thought the same thing with Model 3 production, and then said “humans are underrated” and that they bought into automation too much, leading to production delays. https://gizmodo.com/overrated-human-elon-musk-says-humans-are-underrated-1825264384 https://gizmodo.com/overrated-human-elon-musk-says-humans-ar...
- richev 8y agoI saw a similar thing at a Mars chocolate factory in the 1990s: a lone worker with a conveyor belt of chocolate bars to one side, and a robot opening up boxes to the other. The worker was grabbing handfuls of chocolate bars and filling up the box that had been presented to him. When full, the box would head of down another conveyor belt and be automatically stacked on a palette ready for shipping. Long-since automated I suspect, but at that point in time I presume that the human was cheaper and more reliable than the equivalent robot. Aside: the equivalent job on the M&Ms production line _was_ being done by a robot, and required the packets of M&Ms to be neatly lined up in their boxes.