ABout 14 years ago I was in Japan and toured a facility in which there were only about five people and the entire factory was automated robotically. Much like you sometimes see on t.v. how automobiles travel an assemly line on robotic vehicles fromone station to another, and the automated robotic devices install and do varios operations and the vehicle is transported to the next station.
That was going on there. All controlled by computers in the control room where there were three people watching and working.
So this is really no surprise to me. I helped design the first automotive robotics at Cincinnat Milacron back in the '70s and we built them in the Greensboro facility and shipped them to General Motors and Ford.
After that I worked for Grumman in the defense industry for a bit. Can't talk about what I worked on or what the details were but lets just say that you have seen them on television.
I also was on the team that manufactured and did all the maching on the Hull of the Abrams A1 tank.
We set that up on semi automated maching lines and they passed from one stahe to another by crt carts and were positioned for the next maching operations to talke place.
MAking dough for pizzas should be an exceptionally easy thing to automate and would be accurate and precise.
yes it lacks human hands, germs, people putting thimngs into the dough that get into your body like glass or poisons, or whatever, but the fact is that robots do not tire, do only what they are programmed to do, and are never sick, late, and work at the same pace all day every day.
Also saves a lot of money. Somebody was employhed to make thosoe robots and automated systems, the rawmaterials that they are made out of at the mills, and drivers to transport the raw materials from the Mills to the distribution centers and then tot he factory that manufactured the equipment. So it is a an entire pipeline of people involved eventhough all we see is an automated plant.
If I could have done that with my company I would have.
Only makes perfect manufacturing cost control sense...
I think it's really neat myself. Other folks will see it differently..
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