Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by sbierwagen on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:57PM (#23752055)

Game console manufacturing definitely is low-mix compared to cars, but it's not like they're stamping out spoons: depending on how you count, there were something like 19 revisions to the PS3 motherboard, as Sony worked to reduce chip count and shrink PCB size: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Motherboard_Revisions

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by krasin on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:19PM (#23752269)

Specifically, in the context of assembly, as long as dimensions and locations of each connector stay the same, it does not really matter for the automated assembly line.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by monocasa on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:34PM (#23753050)

They made changes to the case, board, and connectors.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by AmericanChopper on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:45PM (#23754439)

I was trying to clean the dust out of my PS4 a little while ago, and had to browse through quite a few YouTube videos before I found a disassembly tutorial that matched my model.

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by noir_lord on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:07PM (#23753345)

If the level of automation is sufficiently cost effective perhaps they’ll have fewer revisions on this one.

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