Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World

Re:Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the W... by carlmr on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:14AM (#19397959)

Yes, but you still have the problem of bringing this process into your production line and finding out how it makes you more efficient or better.

Musk also had to learn some lessons Toyota learned years ago, because he trusted a bit too much in automation.

If you want to automate something, you need to know exactly all the corner cases, every step of what the human is doing to make it work. The robots are precise enough, but it's often not that easy to describe the tasks to them.

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Re:Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the W... by lnsru on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:46AM (#19398108)

How are these robots programmed? Just a sequence of position movements and affector actions depending on few digital inputs of light curtains or sensors?

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Re:Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the W... by bluedino on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:14AM (#19399857)

In the most simple cases, yes. Parametric programming is popular, where you can define an item and then scale it in a number of factors and only need one program for thousands of possible premutations of that item.

Think about a company that produces screws, they don't have a program for every possible screw they make. Same goes for a more complicated item like a metal box with a door on it.

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