They will never be able to fully automate it.
To contradict @queermunist@lemmy.ml abit here, what automation allows for is the simplification and breakdown of repetitious tasks, such as monitoring or sorting. Sometimes these can be complex in nature, but simplified through automation. However, atart up, shut down, and maintenance are still human tasks and will remain so for the near and far future, alongside design, most visual quality control checks, and detail work.
However, to agree with what she said part of the problem is that companies will often get contracts under the assumption that the automation works perfectly, which as an engineer, trust me it never does, and businesses always short-staff their maintenance and automation departments because they hate the idea of someone sitting around waiting for something bad to happen (inefficiency to them) even though that is the proper workflow for those areas, which is hurry up and wait. It’s wild that they understand that for sales and quality control, but if it’s a blue collar worker suddenly they have to be sweating their ass off 24/7 or they are a drain on the company.
True automation will require a complete redesign of factories and machines on a scale unfathomable under capitalism.
China has certainly come the closest. That said, maintenance, start-up and shut down are still human operations on most of those lines. However, for many of them they are at the point where they only need sensors and not visual confirmation, which is leagues ahead of where most American factories are.
They will never be able to fully automate it. To contradict @queermunist@lemmy.ml abit here, what automation allows for is the simplification and breakdown of repetitious tasks, such as monitoring or sorting. Sometimes these can be complex in nature, but simplified through automation. However, atart up, shut down, and maintenance are still human tasks and will remain so for the near and far future, alongside design, most visual quality control checks, and detail work.
However, to agree with what she said part of the problem is that companies will often get contracts under the assumption that the automation works perfectly, which as an engineer, trust me it never does, and businesses always short-staff their maintenance and automation departments because they hate the idea of someone sitting around waiting for something bad to happen (inefficiency to them) even though that is the proper workflow for those areas, which is hurry up and wait. It’s wild that they understand that for sales and quality control, but if it’s a blue collar worker suddenly they have to be sweating their ass off 24/7 or they are a drain on the company.
True automation will require a complete redesign of factories and machines on a scale unfathomable under capitalism.
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China has certainly come the closest. That said, maintenance, start-up and shut down are still human operations on most of those lines. However, for many of them they are at the point where they only need sensors and not visual confirmation, which is leagues ahead of where most American factories are.