▲ 498 ▼ Data center noise at Great Oak community outside Manassas, Virginia. (streamable.com) submitted 4 months ago by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (2 children) Not in the US, they're not. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 child) Yea, they are. Quite a bit of automation, many employees are there to maintain the machines, not do the actual work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 point 4 months ago I've worked in industrial automation for the past 18 years. What you're talking about is lights-out manufacturing. While this may be the state of the art in some sectors, it's definitely not for most sectors and even less in the aged installed base in the US. The investment to bring old factories even close to fully automated is simply not being made, and for good reason. The sad reality is that exploiting humans to do a lot of the more expensive to automate work is cheaper. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 child) Yea, they are. Quite a bit of automation, many employees are there to maintain the machines, not do the actual work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 point 4 months ago I've worked in industrial automation for the past 18 years. What you're talking about is lights-out manufacturing. While this may be the state of the art in some sectors, it's definitely not for most sectors and even less in the aged installed base in the US. The investment to bring old factories even close to fully automated is simply not being made, and for good reason. The sad reality is that exploiting humans to do a lot of the more expensive to automate work is cheaper. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 point 4 months ago I've worked in industrial automation for the past 18 years. What you're talking about is lights-out manufacturing. While this may be the state of the art in some sectors, it's definitely not for most sectors and even less in the aged installed base in the US. The investment to bring old factories even close to fully automated is simply not being made, and for good reason. The sad reality is that exploiting humans to do a lot of the more expensive to automate work is cheaper. permalink fedilink source parent