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Watch this, and count the people you see in this video of manufacturing a PC motherboard. This is why people are needed less and less in manufacturing:
LiberalArkie
(15,708 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)like the old Timex slogan, "takes a licking and keeps on ticking".
Have a UD (ultra durable) that has run almost continuously since 2010.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)can't wait to get a new board. i will have to do battle with the wife but it will be a battle well worth it.
ExciteBike66
(2,319 posts)motherboard, he would need tiny little fingers and the eyes of an eagle to solder all the crap on that thing.
Actually, if Trump's vision is good I bet he would do fine with those delicate little hands!
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)monmouth4
(9,694 posts)Sailor65x1
(554 posts)We are long past the point where humans could even build a functioning unit with current specs at all. So this is actually the reason you can own a PC.
Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Kind of scary...
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)brooklynite
(94,487 posts)How many people insisted on having an Operator place their phone calls today?
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Motorola manufacturing what would later be called Internet equipment and a protocol analyzer company, who names escape me at the moment and who went out of business a decade ago.
Anyway, The ratio of people to robots looks about the same as I remember it. Certainly the hand work was the same as before,
not greater or less.
But what really stood out to me was the speed. The robots of this video are MANY MANY times faster than the robots of 1990.
Easily 10 times faster.
Which means they are producing 10 times the product today, with the same number of people.