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Industrial automation and manufacturing: - Need a dedicated degree (2 year as well as 4 year) in Manufacturing - Trade schools and apprenticeship programs tha
by systemvoltage 4y ago
Industrial automation and manufacturing:
- Need a dedicated degree (2 year as well as 4 year) in Manufacturing
- Trade schools and apprenticeship programs that do not sound like scam
- Automated material movement and handling
- Machine vision, automation of quality assurance
- Automated mold making and plastic injection molding optimization (still done by humans and takes 4 months)
- Factory software (ERP, MRP, MES, SPC, etc.)
- dragostudor 4y agoIf you're working on any of these, it would be great to chat
- mdtusz 4y agoSomething I've noticed in this space is that there exist "standards" which are intended to make systems compatible and useful and modern, but all of these standards are extremely poorly written and cling to outdated paradigms and weird non-standard protocols that aren't used anywhere except small subsets of the manufacturing world. Often you'll have to implement interfaces yourself because there's only one reference C library available that hasn't had any maintenance for years and won't even compile. At risk of someone posting the xkcd on standards, I would love to see an full industry wide consortium to establish _modern and well designed_ standards, led by people with experience making modern networked services and systems. Specifically around industrial machine controls and data/telemetry collection. A few standards exist that are roughly xml-rpc-ish, but they don't even follow that much as a standard. OPC-UA is the latest "standard" to be making the rounds and is (IMO) doomed to fail due to its layers of complexity and unclear specifications.