I used to work at a company that also does "material handling" (fancy way of saying "conveyor belts, etc.") for factory automation. I wasn't in that department

I used to work at a company that also does "material handling" (fancy way of saying "conveyor belts, etc.") for factory automation. I wasn't in that department, but I got a general sense of the budgets, and $8 million sounds orders of magnitude too high for a project like this.