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Right. The bigger trend is downward mobility in automation, to the point where advanced automation is much more commonly available.
by motters 16y ago
Right. The bigger trend is downward mobility in automation, to the point where advanced automation is much more commonly available.
- zwieback 16y agoDefinitely for small scale specialty manufacturing, like 3D printing and other rapid proto methods. However, we've seen a lot of automated processes being shifted back to manual lines since manual labor is so incredibly cheap and becoming better and better in quality. This typically happens after some years of automated production in higher-wage countries like the US or Singapore. Once the process/product is mature and the equipment amortized its often cheaper to get manual labor to take on big parts of the process.