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It's called lights-out manufacturing: "Factories that employ "lights-out manufacturing" are fully automated and require no human presence on-site." https://en
by spyder 6y ago
It's called lights-out manufacturing:
"Factories that employ "lights-out manufacturing" are fully automated and require no human presence on-site."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)
- u678u 6y agoFor some reason this scares me at a core level more than anything else. Seems inevitable that Skynet will control the factory sooner or later.
- jtsiskin 6y agoImagine a paper clip factory, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
- bsder 6y agoWrong link: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- Sharapolas 6y agoWith IIOT (industry internet of things) that definitely seems like a possible reality. However, as long as Skynet is controlled by ex-factory workers it will be a promotion for everyone.
- spyder 6y agoYep, one of the example in the Wiki is robots building robots since 2001: "FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been operating as a lights-out factory since 2001.[6] Robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time."
- riskneutral 6y agoIf I'm not mistaken, Apple's machine shops are almost fully automated. They bought an enormous number of CNC machines to make MacBooks, etc.