LadderLogic
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Just came back from a trip to Mexico (business, not pleasure).
A huge plant, newly-built, clean, well-lit, nice office area.
There are workbenches, workbenches, workbenches... Behind those are girls, girls, girls - probably more than a thousand per shift.
And they all do manual labor: assembly, inspection, packing. There is almost no automation (two or three small machines, each one looking like a micro-PLC is enough to control it). There is of course no data collection or SCADA-type systems: all that needed is entered into the production database by typing.
Re-tooling the process simply means moving the benches and the girls around.
Well, this scares me a bit. Seems like my experience (whatever it is) may start to fail to interest those money-making production people anymore. They don't need no damn' automation. There are too many people around just eager to do dumb repeated work for peanuts.
Should I consider a career in cab business?
A huge plant, newly-built, clean, well-lit, nice office area.
There are workbenches, workbenches, workbenches... Behind those are girls, girls, girls - probably more than a thousand per shift.
And they all do manual labor: assembly, inspection, packing. There is almost no automation (two or three small machines, each one looking like a micro-PLC is enough to control it). There is of course no data collection or SCADA-type systems: all that needed is entered into the production database by typing.
Re-tooling the process simply means moving the benches and the girls around.
Well, this scares me a bit. Seems like my experience (whatever it is) may start to fail to interest those money-making production people anymore. They don't need no damn' automation. There are too many people around just eager to do dumb repeated work for peanuts.
Should I consider a career in cab business?