Re:Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
by thro32 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:34AM
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I checked linked study:
> A human welder today earns around $25 per hour (including benefits), while the equivalent operating cost per hour for a robot is around $8 when installation, maintenance, and the operating costs of all hardware, software, and peripherals are amortized over a five-year depreciation period.
So human cost does not include total cost, just labour. Comparable cost would be around $100
(that would make them highly task specific, but it would reflect the difference in welding costs for producing cars on a high volume line)