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Jay Smith @InnieJay34

6 months ago

Interesting array by the big 3

Andrew Beck

@AndrewBeckUSA

6 months ago

When I was on loan to the large advertising group responsible for the launch of the Lightning, I had ideas for marketing to existing pickup owners shot down because it would “look like we were catering to Trump voters.”

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em m0shouris

@emm0sh

8 months ago

Dark Factories? Of course you thought there wasn't anyone on the floor. They were hiding in the offices while management pretended to turn the lights on for you. Let me guess -- you just finished the McKinsey Quarterly deck on lights out factories, and now you think humans are going away because you saw a couple Fanucs feeding pallets into CNC mills while management waxed poetic about the future of manufacturing. You're going to believe that right up until your first ECN comes through and you have to scrap fifteen hundred fixtures because a twenty three year old design engineer in San Jose wasn't taught in their overpriced engineering university that hard internal corners are stress risers and cause parts to fail in cyclic loading. Then it'll become your problem. While you're dealing with that, you'll look around and notice that the lights in your "Dark Factory" have been on a lot dealing with these issues. You've had to hire more people than you thought for machine maintenance, and you don't even want to think about the very well lit shipping department in the back. Surprise -- another issue, the well staffed and well paid QC department is saying that half of your parts and assemblies are either OOS or failing ORT. You turn the lights back on. Then you'll finally open up ASME Y14.5 and really read it this time, and not just skim over it again to figure out why an angularity tolerance isn't measured in degrees and see that the cause of your process capability going to crap was because a process two vendors upstream was slowly coming out of spec. After that, you'll think you've figured things out and crack open Shigley's to read about Hertzian contact stress and realize that the super hard and expensive unobtanium carbide lathe tooling you forced down your vendor's throat was going to end up adhesive wearing away anyways despite the softer aluminum parts they were cutting because it didn't matter what your hardness differential was. Daddy Bharat Bhushan was always going to get you. You then implement a tool change schedule and then it hits you. Dark factories aren't happening because dark factories aren't a robotics problem. They aren't even just a manufacturing problem. They're an operational, finance, and everything under the sun problem. Recursive feedback mechanisms? Sure, pal. The only thing here recursive is this story. If I had a dollar every time I heard it, well, I guess I could afford an actual factory.

emm0sh's tweet photo. Dark Factories? Of course you thought there wasn't anyone on the floor. They were hiding in the offices while management pretended to turn the lights on for you.

Let me guess -- you just finished the McKinsey Quarterly deck on lights out factories, and now you think humans are going away because you saw a couple Fanucs feeding pallets into CNC mills while management waxed poetic about the future of manufacturing.

You're going to believe that right up until your first ECN comes through and you have to scrap fifteen hundred fixtures because a twenty three year old design engineer in San Jose wasn't taught in their overpriced engineering university that hard internal corners are stress risers and cause parts to fail in cyclic loading. Then it'll become your problem.

While you're dealing with that, you'll look around and notice that the lights in your "Dark Factory" have been on a lot dealing with these issues. You've had to hire more people than you thought for machine maintenance, and you don't even want to think about the very well lit shipping department in the back. Surprise -- another issue, the well staffed and well paid QC department is saying that half of your parts and assemblies are either OOS or failing ORT. You turn the lights back on.

Then you'll finally open up ASME Y14.5 and really read it this time, and not just skim over it again to figure out why an angularity tolerance isn't measured in degrees and see that the cause of your process capability going to crap was because a process two vendors upstream was slowly coming out of spec.

After that, you'll think you've figured things out and crack open Shigley's to read about Hertzian contact stress and realize that the super hard and expensive unobtanium carbide lathe tooling you forced down your vendor's throat was going to end up adhesive wearing away anyways despite the softer aluminum parts they were cutting because it didn't matter what your hardness differential was. Daddy Bharat Bhushan was always going to get you. You then implement a tool change schedule and then it hits you.

Dark factories aren't happening because dark factories aren't a robotics problem. They aren't even just a manufacturing problem. They're an operational, finance, and everything under the sun problem.

Recursive feedback mechanisms? Sure, pal. The only thing here recursive is this story. If I had a dollar every time I heard it, well, I guess I could afford an actual factory.

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Jerry O'Connell

@MrJerryOC

10 months ago

Fantasy Manager

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Jay Smith @InnieJay34

11 months ago

@JeffPassan @JohnJHarwood I think one perceived measure is how a team is predicting run production. Pitching is so good now that some teams (Yankees) will try to produce runs off of 1 swing vs. 2-3 base hits. Think teams are moving back to BA as more valued for better playoff performance.

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Jay Smith @InnieJay34

12 months ago

@envisionedluna Learned about this city in my MBA class, people stare into my soul when I say the name as a White American

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Jerry O'Connell

@MrJerryOC

12 months ago

In Dallas for Girl's Volleyball Nationals and reflecting on our Nation's History. Also considering drafting Pickens/WR from The Cowboys for @PardonMyTake league. RIP President Kennedy!