In my (limited) experience this type of thing is very common on the design side but much more rare in manufacturing. An arduino/raspberry pi lets an ME/EE with

In my (limited) experience this type of thing is very common on the design side but much more rare in manufacturing. An arduino/raspberry pi lets an ME/EE with limited software skills get a lot of test automation done. Last big company I worked for had a large automation team where everyone did a lot of consultant managing and zero engineering. The culture clash was rough during design handoffs. They’d come back to design after their three station monstrosity with 8 motors, hundreds of pounds of steel, and 12 pneumatic lines was failing to do the one simple task it had been over designed for. Another more specific highlight was getting a quote of around $50k to add an ambient temp sensor to one station.