On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:03:36 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:56:42 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

wrote:

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The robots have to be programmed.

CADCAM programs still have to be created.

Jobs still have to be setup.

Modern, high-tech, state of the art, machining job shops haven't employed button pushers for many years.
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Complete and utter bull****. In fact..they have managed to improve the
machines well enough that they hire nose pickers barely able to read a
mic and put them to running those very machines. Which is why Jonboi
is unemployed. He required mic reading training after each potty break
so they finally let him go.


But that isn't new. My uncle was chief electrician for a company
called "Miniature Precision Bearings" back, it must have been the
1950's and the entire manufacturing portion was "manned" with house
wives. All the grinding machines were automated and there was a single
"foreman" in each section who understood enough to make adjustments.

Later I worked with a guy that for a while had a "factory" in his two
car garage. Three Brown & Sharp Screw Machines and Mexican girls as
operators. Must have been about the same period. He said that the only
problem he had was the bar feeders clanked and he had to make holes in
the back garage wall to clear the bar stock.



Indeed, but the people for those jobs are not the same
people that were displaced from the manufacturing line jobs.

Gunner, who is in commercial machine shops 5-10 times a week..working
on those machines..and dealing with those nose pickers.
--
cheers,

John B.