Cogs In Machine

kunkmiester · Post by **kunkmiester** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:09 pm

Even with robots, the investment can pay off, since the dies are the big investment for a part. New part? You just have to tweak the robot movement a bit. While automating for one product wouldn't be practical, it would be spread around the thousands of total parts made in the press.

You don't even really need multiple robots. Just set up a carousel that will move them between dies set in a circle. The waldoes would be adjusted for each part being made, but that wouldn't cost a whole lost more than the dies, which you'd have to make anyway. In fact, with the higher rate you could probably get, less for health insurance(can you imagine how much it would cost to insure a system like that), and less in wages, you'd probably be getting larger orders that would help justify the system even more.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:53 pm

kunkmiester wrote: In fact, with the higher rate you could probably get, less for health insurance(can you imagine how much it would cost to insure a system like that), and less in wages, you'd probably be getting larger orders that would help justify the system even more.

Health insurance and wages issues in China??

kunkmiester · Post by **kunkmiester** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:38 pm

I'd imagine if someone lost a hand or arm and you didn't compensate them somehow, you'd have a riot on your hands, and the gov is starting to get real with things like that, instead of just sending in the riot teams all the time.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:18 am

In China, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, and so on, the cost of paying for the death of a worker is generally cheap in respect to the value of the manufactured product.
In case of death respected factories do pay sums that for the families are pretty large and will normally cover all the exspenses to rise the orphans until end of high school or over.
Un-respected or illegal factories will just bribe the local officials and move along.

I have seen both situations happening.

I can agree with you that sooner or later they will also arrive to the point where they will have to change this system, but I do not see any change coming for at least the next 20 years....