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> I'm interested why over-automation caused so many problems in manufacturing plants. A robot will uncritically do what you tell it. An experienced welder wil
by trentmb 8y ago
> I'm interested why over-automation caused so many problems in manufacturing plants.
A robot will uncritically do what you tell it.
An experienced welder will tell you you're an idiot when you're an idiot.
- Someone1234 8y agoSo is the issue over-automation or bad QA after the system is set up?
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- setr 8y agoI would imagine theyd try to automate QA too, akin to unit testing You could imagine a situation where the automated QA is trusted and does its job in sets, with humans interspersed to backup the QA programs. But one of the QA checks is actually buggy and OK’s the missing weld, but the full batch of work covers it up before reaching a human for the double-check In which case, both issues are at fault: too much reliance on the QA program, and allowing too much work to be done before it reached a human (bad double-check setup)
- archi42 8y agoI imagine if you have a list of welding points and feed that list to both the assembly and inspection robots, stuff like this happens. Especially in case the robots share code and e.g. have the same parse error when loading your list of welding points.
- Gibbon1 8y ago> A robot will uncritically do what you tell it And might well muck it up one time out of 50.