Re:See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory
by analog31 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:20PM
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I've done some factory automation. Something I learned is that automating the last 20% of the process takes 80% of the work. Removing the last remaining manual processes gets exponentially harder and more costly.
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Re:See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory
by iancmceachern on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:22AM
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And often in doing this last 20% we come across the fact that the human portion of the assy process does so much more than it seems on the surface. Things like predicting and correcting for errors, keeping things going that aren't immediately obvious.