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> Who goes to college to learn how to set up a factory? There's a field called "industrial engineering": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering

> Who goes to college to learn how to set up a factory? There's a field called "industrial engineering": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering "Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment. Industrial engineering is central to manufacturing operations." In the university I attended, the engineering school had a degree program for it. Also, I'd presume that depending on what the factory produces, you'd have electrical, chemical, mechanical, aerospace, etc. engineers involved in designing and building the factory.

inamberclad 3y ago
School still isn't the same work. There's a lot more intricacies in the real world than you can ever be taught in school.
- greenyoda 3y ago
  Of course. As in any field of work, new graduates get entry level jobs and learn by working alongside more experienced practitioners. (E.g., someone who just graduated with a CS degree isn't likely to know how to ship robust, scalable and maintainable software - that's something you learn from experience.)
- spfzero 3y ago
  Yes. Building something complicated requires formal education plus years of experience attempting to build the complicated thing.
petra 3y ago
This degree is quite popular in Israel. Because it's relatively easy and probably interesting. You learn many subjects(people, money, knowledge, information and equipment) but not in that much depth. graduates of that degree work in working factories, manage people and optimize processes. I don't think they go into deep technical subjects. That's very different from what Animats described.
- Animats 3y ago
  It's related. If you have a working factory, data collection and optimization can make it better. If you have a vacant lot and money, that's a different problem. I'm reading Ashlee Vance’s “When the Heavens Went on Sale”. This describes most of the smaller space launch startups, which he visited at length, including the launch sites in Outer Nowhere. Each of them had to start manufacturing rockets from nothing. How they approached this, who succeeded and who failed, and why, is worth a read.

inamberclad 3y ago

School still isn't the same work. There's a lot more intricacies in the real world than you can ever be taught in school.

greenyoda 3y ago
Of course. As in any field of work, new graduates get entry level jobs and learn by working alongside more experienced practitioners. (E.g., someone who just graduated with a CS degree isn't likely to know how to ship robust, scalable and maintainable software - that's something you learn from experience.)
spfzero 3y ago
Yes. Building something complicated requires formal education plus years of experience attempting to build the complicated thing.

petra 3y ago

This degree is quite popular in Israel. Because it's relatively easy and probably interesting. You learn many subjects(people, money, knowledge, information and equipment) but not in that much depth. graduates of that degree work in working factories, manage people and optimize processes. I don't think they go into deep technical subjects. That's very different from what Animats described.

Animats 3y ago
It's related. If you have a working factory, data collection and optimization can make it better. If you have a vacant lot and money, that's a different problem. I'm reading Ashlee Vance’s “When the Heavens Went on Sale”. This describes most of the smaller space launch startups, which he visited at length, including the launch sites in Outer Nowhere. Each of them had to start manufacturing rockets from nothing. How they approached this, who succeeded and who failed, and why, is worth a read.