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KBs PensNmore
22nd Mar 2017, 08:58 PM
: TESLA robotics . . .
Simply incredible --

This is the fewest employees procedure (3000).The nut and bolt guys that built cars in the past are not present.
High tech employees only (+ 140 amazing robots)

Henry Ford would flip over after seeing this . . .

The TESLA ASSEMBLY PLANT IN FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - Pretty Amazing.

Watch this and you'll better understand why manufacturing jobs will never be what they once were.
Once upon a time, this was science fiction.


http://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0 (http://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0)

Leighg
22nd Mar 2017, 09:30 PM
Amazing technology, not a single pit pony in sight..

jatt
26th Mar 2017, 02:41 PM
Yep thats the way its going.

My small foray into technology is an auto cutting table, but can see a time when I have a robotic sewing machine.

In oz we are doing a great job of putting ourselves out of work. The introduction of the Grand final eve public holiday was my "enough" moment to start investing in technology.

Simplicity
26th Mar 2017, 07:13 PM
Wow,
Smart company to.
They used red robots I hear they work harder.

Cheers Matt


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.RC.
26th Mar 2017, 09:59 PM
To be honest I am not seeing much there that has not been around for ten years or more.

Robots were welding cars together in the 1980's weren't they? As robots get cheaper to build and software gets more powerful, companies can afford to install more robots and less workers.

Down the track, I think we will see many managerial and paperwork jobs replaced by software.

The jobs that are safe are the ones that require visual acuity and dexterity. Like a mechanic for example.

KBs PensNmore
26th Mar 2017, 10:35 PM
The jobs that are safe are the ones that require visual acuity and dexterity. Like a mechanic for example.

Isn't that job now described as "Auto parts replacement technician", mainly because they now plug a laptop into the car and the computer tell them what parts need to be replaced!!!!!!
Kryn

jatt
27th Mar 2017, 03:03 PM
They used red robots I hear they work harder. Nah they just go faster.


Auto parts replacement technician", mainly because they now plug a laptop into the car and the computer tell them what parts need to be replaced!!!!!!
Kryn
Pretty much.

A flip side to folks losing their jobs. As hard as it is to believe, (at least in some trades like plumber) seems that employers are having troubles getting apprentices. I did a job for a large plumbing firm here and they struggle to get apprentices. Watched some media stuff recently on the same subject, they don't seem to be Robinson Crusoe. When I pressed this guy as to why they have troubles, one reason he was given was "oh I can get more $ working at maccas flipping burgers". "Just wait until you go onto adult wages and have your hours cut in favour of some 15 yo on cheaper rates!!"

KBs PensNmore
27th Mar 2017, 05:32 PM
That's the trouble, they only look at the now picture, not ahead in 5 years time after they finish the apprenticeship, when they could be naming their own price to work for someone.
Everyone wants a job where they start at the top, the only 2 jobs that I know of where you can do that, is Digging Post holes and being a Grave Digger.

Grahame Collins
23rd Aug 2017, 09:30 PM
Don't blame the kids. The reason for what is happening now goes back nearly 30 years.
The government then wanted more kids to go to university. To phrase it bluntly they dropped the uni standards so that kids who normally would have taken trades attended uni and the kids who normally would have been semi skilled labourers were intended to take the apprenticeships.

The problem was that the standards of entry to the trades were dropped as well as the make up of the trade courses to allow the students with a lesser educational qualifications to cope.

Apprenticeships went to three years Tafe attendance and the trade courses were restructured so that apprentice was niche trained to a specific section of the trade they were employed in.
Previously the Tafe made up the training that the workplace could not offer.

Australian trained tradespeople who once highly sought for international construction projects but in the intervening years are no longer seen as the versatile all rounders they were in the nineties.

High schools shy away from decent prevoc basic metalwork training and are more interested in Hi tech computer based training but can't teach most of them to sharpen a drill.

Sorry for the thread hack.

jatt
23rd Aug 2017, 11:21 PM
Was a 80's teen. Yeah was basically told by careers councillor at school that I wouldn't amount to much if I left after year 10. Of course was trying to get me to stay on.

Our friend Mr Howard was trying to get more kids to do Uni, but not everyone wants to (or is up to it). Then of course there is the cost of doing so these days.