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Reducing required operator skill level and training needed is absolutely major driver in commercial/industrial equipment development, and has been throughout th
by zokier 3y ago
Reducing required operator skill level and training needed is absolutely major driver in commercial/industrial equipment development, and has been throughout the industrial era. If production line is able to specify just one standardized cutting disk, even if suboptimal otherwise, instead of requiring worker to choose between multiple ones, then it definitely can happen. Its very romanticized view to think that the world runs on highly skilled craftspeople using finely honed chest of tools.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago> Reducing required operator skill level and training needed is absolutely major driver in commercial/industrial equipment development No, it is an imperative driven by capitalism. Employees don't want this. Tool users don't want this (because as you note, if the blade can cut everything it likely doesn't cut anything very well). The motivation for the kind of tool development you're referring to is not the development of improved tools, but reduced labor costs (and sometimes, possibly, tighter tolerances). That's not a model for tools explicitly marketed (by Jobs!) as tools for everyone.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago> if the blade can cut everything it likely doesn't cut anything very well Haha. Sounds like Java/C#/Go. All corporate (Oracle/Microsoft/Google) languages. Coincidence? ;p