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Labor does not mean only people but the cost of assembly. Robots aren’t free they need to be maintained by highly skilled and in the current market also highly

• forkLding 8y ago
  Yea I included the mechanics who do maintenance in my paragraphs when I was talking about labourers, you might have to reread that part, when I was there, they largely hang out in one roofed area within and arent utilized as heavily as you expect. I think from a layman perspective we expect mechanics to be constantly busy and fixing and maintaining but they only fix if there are issues and with a company like Toyota the realization is that they're so experienced and familiar that the maintenance costs reduce with time simply because its cheaper and much more efficient that way and because its much easier to fix the same issues. As well, a mechanic that is fully utilized is actually a bad thing as that means you plant is constantly being shut down to fix things and not producing cars, as thats how you fix things in a TPS system. Also car plants nowadays are wonderfully automated, the materials were being shipped around using driverless carts with sensors and music to alert people or things in their way. Its also suprisingly devoid of human noise aside from the machines clanking.