As someone who works in manufacturing - This is why you can't automate a lot of manual work in factories. Robots are good at some specific tasks but there's a lot of things that humans can do better and cheaper (even considering well paid union labor).
I feel that not having the bread around the sausage probably also misaligned the wrapper at the end. I’m gonna give it a pass mark on this step, just for trying.
The issues is trying to design the whole process in a small box. It's not hard to get a production line that does the job perfectly with little to no issues.
Honestly, the biggeet problem is just that its overengineered. These robot arms are quite complex machines and just a regular assembly line like machine could have done it faster and easier.
It's both over and under engineered, it shouldn't use a sophisticated robot arm, and if they're already using a robot arm, there should be more QR codes to tell the position of parts which they can probably do it on the buns and the wrapper.
(the word "bag" kept popping in my head, sorry I'm not a native English speaker)
In my company where we produce components for such automation machine, we already had big contract beign negotiated from customer who needs components to mass produce fast food machines (as far as I remember, the company is aiming for automated burgers)
This needs to be essentially a vending machine, which it easily can be as there is no reason for this not to be stacked. In a year, this can be 10x faster and work 100% of the time. It just seems like each of the components hasn’t been finished yet.
As it it could have been made years ago, so according to you it was done years ago.
Not cost effectively. This only works with rising wages, and ever cheaper computers and hardware. Now that that became cheap, and labour became expensive, it now makes economic sense to develop these kinds of machines.
But they haven't had long, and they only have lower millions to upper hundreds of thousands R&D so the best YET is this.
Nothing works 100% of the time, that's just pure fantasy.
Most things work 100% of the time, pretty much everything in fact. The internet works because things work 100% of the time. Now this isn't 100.000000000% of course, but 99.9999% absolutely.
Meanwhile you are hiding your assumption that it can be made cost effectively now, in a year, or in the next decade behind "this is the worst it is ever going to suck".
This only works with rising wages
No, automation makes sense when the TCO is lower than wages regardless of where they are moving.
ever cheaper computers and hardware.
Simple reduction in the cost of the raw materials needed for an automation system are sometimes a way to cross that threshold, but a lot of times it requires an innovation in how they are applied to a specific task.
I can't speak to the hardware side, but the rise in computing power has slowed, so that would have been more convincing a decade ago than now.
Most things work 100% of the time, pretty much everything in fact. [..] Now this isn't 100.000000000% of course, but 99.9999% absolutely.
Those zeros add absolutely nothing, while every added nine represents potentially exponential increase in design and maintenance, while every removed nine results in increased downtime and repair.
As to your impression that things work 100% of the time, its just another case of our inability to intuitively grasp scale. You are looking at a very small set of things, most of them for a very short time and almost certainly not meticulously documenting every instance of downtime that is rapidly fixed.
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u/Milanesa_de_Pollo_ 12d ago
Using such a machine for something so trivial xD