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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by barrkel on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:56AM (#23749211)
Journalist innumeracy.

It's a pipeline. 30 seconds per build, but not 30 seconds between each console.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by colinmhayes on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:45PM (#23749711)
There's no way they can build an entire one in just 30 seconds. It probably takes longer than that just to package them.
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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by Hamuko on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:16PM (#23750071)
Well, the packaging is done by humans.
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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by CobrastanJorji on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:56PM (#23752045)
No, it isn't. The article specifically describes the robots packaging the final product.
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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by JosephRedfern on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:14PM (#23752235)
It’s ambiguously worded (up to vs up to and including), but the article actually specifically describes humans packaging the final product: “Just a few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks -- two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.“
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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by niea_11 on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:13PM (#23752216)
from the article :

Just a few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks -- two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.

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