The primary purposes of automation are to reduce costs, increase production speed, improve safety, and/or improve accuracy. This does none of those things.
Last I knew (i left my automation career 3 years ago), a robot that could operate in a food safe environment cost about $60k on the low end. Then add in everything else attached to it and the engineering and that single hot dog stand easily cost more than $100,000 USD, likely still needs an operator nearby and probably needs $10k+ in annual maintenance.
So basically they paid $100k+ to have 1 person run a machine doing the work that same person could do better and faster without the machine.
That is their flawed thought process though. They think that firing the hotdog maker and replacing them with a person that operates the hot dog machine will be cheaper.
I couldn’t tell you how many clients I tried to talk out of purchasing equipment because it wouldn’t reduce staff or costs and they end up paying me to design it anyways.
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u/ninjad912 12d ago
I mean. Automation is supposed to do trivial tasks for you. That’s kinda the point